Security Cleared Contract Job Trends 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 16 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 103 44 70
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 16.72% 12.57% 15.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 58.19% 36.36% 57.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 22 36
10th Percentile £301 £233 £341
25th Percentile £413 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £725 £628 £625
90th Percentile £775 £650 £631
UK median daily rate £530 £530 £550
% change year-on-year - -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 21
10th Percentile £24.37 £21.81 £15.81
25th Percentile £44.78 - £20.12
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% +161.85%
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £87.80
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £25.15 £55.80
% change year-on-year +151.03% -54.93% -7.00%

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 177 121 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 28.73% 34.57% 27.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 67 74
10th Percentile £253 £228 £133
25th Percentile £375 £288 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £493
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -13.71% -6.19%
75th Percentile £600 £491 £600
90th Percentile £775 £647 £634
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 19 27
10th Percentile £17.40 £13.08 £15.57
25th Percentile £33.19 £22.01 £20.12
Median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.72% -44.11% +148.07%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £54.38
90th Percentile £55.00 - £86.72
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +105.88% -38.55% -24.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Security Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Security Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Wales

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Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Security Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Security Cleared

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 16 July 2026. 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 +13 83 £550 +3.29% 23
West Wales 0 9 £525 +10.53% 6
North Wales -6 8 £200 -6.98%
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.88%) Confluence
2 3 (2.91%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) Apache
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.97%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (24.27%) Azure
2 13 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.65%) GitHub
4 6 (5.83%) GCP
5 5 (4.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (3.88%) Cloud Run
6 4 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.91%) BrowserStack
7 3 (2.91%) Miro
7 3 (2.91%) SonarCloud
8 2 (1.94%) AWS
9 1 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.97%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.97%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.97%) Figma
9 1 (0.97%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.88%) DNS
1 4 (3.88%) SAN
2 1 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.97%) DHCP
2 1 (0.97%) Firewall
2 1 (0.97%) LAN
2 1 (0.97%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.91%) Metadata
3 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.97%) Adabas
4 1 (0.97%) Big Data
4 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.97%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.97%) Db2
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.97%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.97%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (5.83%) JIRA
2 2 (1.94%) JMeter
2 2 (1.94%) MSTest
2 2 (1.94%) Selenium
2 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.97%) Git
3 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 28 (27.18%) Public Sector
2 15 (14.56%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.71%) Military
4 5 (4.85%) Finance
5 2 (1.94%) Digital Health
5 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.97%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.97%) Banking
6 1 (0.97%) Billing
6 1 (0.97%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (22.33%) Senior
2 18 (17.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (12.62%) Architect
3 13 (12.62%) Technical Architect
4 9 (8.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure Architect
5 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 8 (7.77%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (6.80%) Developer
6 7 (6.80%) Storage Engineer
7 6 (5.83%) Backup Engineer
7 6 (5.83%) Storage and Backup Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Analyst
8 5 (4.85%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Tester
9 4 (3.88%) .NET Developer
9 4 (3.88%) Administrator
9 4 (3.88%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.88%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.68%) Playwright
2 6 (5.83%) Web Services
3 4 (3.88%) .NET
3 4 (3.88%) Flask
3 4 (3.88%) Jinja
3 4 (3.88%) RESTful
3 4 (3.88%) Spring
3 4 (3.88%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.91%) ADO
4 3 (2.91%) Middleware
5 2 (1.94%) CSS
5 2 (1.94%) HTML
5 2 (1.94%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.97%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.97%) Next.js
6 1 (0.97%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
1 4 (3.88%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.91%) PKI
3 2 (1.94%) CMDB
3 2 (1.94%) Fat Client
3 2 (1.94%) NHS
3 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.94%) Replication
3 2 (1.94%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.97%) Clustering
4 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (23.30%) Windows
2 9 (8.74%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.88%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.91%) Linux
5 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.97%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.97%) Unix
6 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (18.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (16.50%) CI/CD
2 17 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (16.50%) ITSM
3 16 (15.53%) Test Automation
4 15 (14.56%) Mentoring
4 15 (14.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 14 (13.59%) Agile
5 14 (13.59%) DevOps
6 13 (12.62%) Decision-Making
7 11 (10.68%) User Research
8 10 (9.71%) Service Delivery
9 9 (8.74%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (8.74%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (8.74%) Service Management
10 8 (7.77%) Project Delivery
10 8 (7.77%) User Experience
11 7 (6.80%) Coaching
11 7 (6.80%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (5.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.59%) SQL
2 10 (9.71%) PowerShell
2 10 (9.71%) Python
3 8 (7.77%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.80%) Java
4 7 (6.80%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.88%) C#
6 3 (2.91%) Ruby
7 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (88.35%) SC Cleared
2 7 (6.80%) CCNA
2 7 (6.80%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.88%) MCSE
3 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.91%) CISM
5 2 (1.94%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.97%) CCNP
6 1 (0.97%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.65%) SLA
2 3 (2.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (2.91%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.91%) JSP 440
2 3 (2.91%) NCSC
3 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 11 (10.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (7.77%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.83%) Docker
4 5 (4.85%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.97%) NFS
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.97%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 6 (5.83%) Ansible
2 5 (4.85%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.94%) Kibana
4 2 (1.94%) SCCM
5 1 (0.97%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.97%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.97%) SnapMirror
5 1 (0.97%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 11 (10.68%) Microsoft
1 11 (10.68%) Salesforce
1 11 (10.68%) VMware
2 9 (8.74%) NetApp
3 7 (6.80%) Cisco
4 4 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.91%) Remedy
6 2 (1.94%) Adobe
6 2 (1.94%) Databricks
6 2 (1.94%) Google
6 2 (1.94%) Oracle
6 2 (1.94%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.97%) Apple
7 1 (0.97%) BMC
7 1 (0.97%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.97%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.97%) IBM
7 1 (0.97%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.97%) Splunk
7 1 (0.97%) Veeam