Security Cleared Contracts in Wales

Security Clearance
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 7 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 36 60 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 12.20% 14.96% 26.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.48% 59.41% 76.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 43 125
10th Percentile £203 £450 £273
25th Percentile £313 £475 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £597 £689 £625
90th Percentile £683 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 15
10th Percentile - £11.00 -
25th Percentile £20.12 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.24 £52.24 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -61.26% +187.95% -60.78%
75th Percentile £21.26 £87.35 £19.98
90th Percentile £22.00 £87.82 £37.44
UK median hourly rate £50.95 £57.33 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.13% -4.46% +14.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

Security Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 131 101 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 44.41% 25.19% 35.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 75 163
10th Percentile £196 £220 £186
25th Percentile £285 £466 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £503 £638 £613
90th Percentile £600 £724 £660
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 17
10th Percentile - £11.01 -
25th Percentile £20.12 £15.51 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +25.03% -60.78%
75th Percentile £41.25 £85.50 £20.47
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.80 £49.25
UK median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Wales region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales -5 25 £525 -14.63% 22
West Wales +1 7 £550 +10.00% 4
Mid Wales - 2 - -
North Wales - 1 - - 1
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) Confluence
1 1 (2.78%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) AWS
1 5 (13.89%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
3 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.78%) Azure API Management
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Stack
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) BGP
3 1 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (2.78%) OSPF
3 1 (2.78%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) VXLAN
3 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.78%) Adabas
3 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.78%) MySQL
3 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Legal
3 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Publishing
3 1 (2.78%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 4 (11.11%) Data Scientist
2 3 (8.33%) Analyst
2 3 (8.33%) Consultant
2 3 (8.33%) Developer
2 3 (8.33%) IT Engineer
2 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Coordinator
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (2.78%) Data Manager
4 1 (2.78%) Database Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (2.78%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (2.78%) Network Specialist
4 1 (2.78%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (2.78%) Service Manager
4 1 (2.78%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) .NET
1 3 (8.33%) PySpark
2 1 (2.78%) Angular 2
2 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.78%) CSS
2 1 (2.78%) EntireX
2 1 (2.78%) HTML
2 1 (2.78%) HTML5
2 1 (2.78%) Node.js
2 1 (2.78%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.78%) REST
2 1 (2.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Driving Licence
1 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Linked Data
2 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Rocky
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (13.89%) Agile
2 5 (13.89%) Data Science
2 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
3 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 4 (11.11%) Data Collection
3 4 (11.11%) Migration
3 4 (11.11%) Statistics
3 4 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 3 (8.33%) Concurrent Programming
4 3 (8.33%) Data Analysis
4 3 (8.33%) Multithreading
4 3 (8.33%) Visualisation
5 2 (5.56%) Analytics
5 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (5.56%) Asset Management
5 2 (5.56%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (5.56%) Mentoring
5 2 (5.56%) Qualitative Research
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Python
2 6 (16.67%) SQL
3 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.33%) C#
5 1 (2.78%) Java
5 1 (2.78%) Natural
5 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.78%) R
5 1 (2.78%) Ruby
5 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (80.56%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Dell
2 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.56%) Databricks
2 2 (5.56%) Google
2 2 (5.56%) HP
2 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.56%) Sophos
3 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco
3 1 (2.78%) F5
3 1 (2.78%) IBM
3 1 (2.78%) Juniper
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Software AG
3 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.78%) VMware
3 1 (2.78%) webMethods