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 14 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 108 89 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 25.29% 20.55% 26.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.16% 55.97% 81.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 64 158
10th Percentile £253 £358 £260
25th Percentile £400 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £615 £560
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +9.82% +10.13%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 4
10th Percentile £15.20 £13.26 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.12 £23.75 £18.43
Median hourly rate £20.62 £35.50 £19.96
Median % change year-on-year -41.92% +77.90% -47.49%
75th Percentile £42.25 £52.06 £21.63
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £23.65
UK median hourly rate £52.19 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.02% - +37.71%

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 171 159 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 40.05% 36.72% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 125 185
10th Percentile £167 £175 £245
25th Percentile £250 £225 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -3.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 8
10th Percentile £17.66 £13.64 £15.59
25th Percentile £20.12 £21.25 £18.56
Median hourly rate £22.00 £33.50 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.33% +54.02% +4.82%
75th Percentile £39.84 £52.50 £25.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £26.80
UK median hourly rate £41.91 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.17% +16.67% +40.69%

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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 14 December 2024.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 14 December 2024.

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 14 December 2024. 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 -1 90 £400 -34.96% 23
West Wales +4 15 £525 +15.07% 3
North Wales +1 1 £247 - 1
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UK

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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 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.93%) SAS
1 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.81%) Azure
2 8 (7.41%) Serverless
3 6 (5.56%) AWS
3 6 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (5.56%) Azure Functions
3 6 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (4.63%) Azure API Management
5 4 (3.70%) Azure Stack
5 4 (3.70%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.78%) dbt
6 3 (2.78%) GCP
7 2 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.85%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.85%) Azure App Service
7 2 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.78%) Power BI
3 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.93%) Adabas
4 1 (0.93%) MySQL
4 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (1.85%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.93%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) RStudio
3 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 21 (19.44%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.19%) Finance
5 9 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.56%) Social Science
8 5 (4.63%) Military
9 3 (2.78%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Legal
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.93%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 16 (14.81%) Analyst
2 10 (9.26%) Data Engineer
3 9 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 9 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
3 9 (8.33%) Service Delivery Manager
3 9 (8.33%) Service Manager
4 7 (6.48%) Consultant
4 7 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (5.56%) Azure Data Engineer
5 6 (5.56%) Developer
5 6 (5.56%) Lead
5 6 (5.56%) NOC Engineer
6 5 (4.63%) Administrator
6 5 (4.63%) Architect
6 5 (4.63%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) Database Consultant
7 4 (3.70%) IT Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.74%) PySpark
2 3 (2.78%) XML
3 2 (1.85%) CSS
3 2 (1.85%) HTML
3 2 (1.85%) Kafka
3 2 (1.85%) SOAP
3 2 (1.85%) SPML
3 2 (1.85%) YAML
4 1 (0.93%) .NET
4 1 (0.93%) Angular 2
4 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.93%) HTML5
4 1 (0.93%) Node.js
4 1 (0.93%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.93%) Pandas
4 1 (0.93%) REST
4 1 (0.93%) SPFx
4 1 (0.93%) Swagger
4 1 (0.93%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.70%) Algorithms
1 4 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.93%) Linked Data
3 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.93%) NHS
3 1 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.19%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Rocky
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.52%) Statistics
2 18 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 15 (13.89%) Service Delivery
4 14 (12.96%) Data Science
5 12 (11.11%) Data Analysis
6 11 (10.19%) Data Modelling
6 11 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (9.26%) Analytics
7 10 (9.26%) Change Management
7 10 (9.26%) Data Engineering
8 9 (8.33%) Agile
8 9 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
8 9 (8.33%) Data Collection
8 9 (8.33%) ITIL
8 9 (8.33%) Service Management
9 8 (7.41%) CI/CD
9 8 (7.41%) Mathematics
9 8 (7.41%) Migration
9 8 (7.41%) Visualisation
10 7 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.56%) Python
2 13 (12.04%) SQL
3 7 (6.48%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.78%) R
5 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.85%) Perl
6 1 (0.93%) Bash
6 1 (0.93%) C#
6 1 (0.93%) Java
6 1 (0.93%) Natural
6 1 (0.93%) Ruby
6 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 90 (83.33%) SC Cleared
2 19 (17.59%) Degree
3 17 (15.74%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.63%) CCNA
6 4 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.78%) PhD
8 1 (0.93%) CCIE
8 1 (0.93%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.78%) QA
4 2 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.63%) Terraform
2 2 (1.85%) Ansible
2 2 (1.85%) Grafana
2 2 (1.85%) Kibana
2 2 (1.85%) Matomo
2 2 (1.85%) Packer
2 2 (1.85%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (8.33%) Databricks
2 5 (4.63%) Cisco
3 4 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.78%) Google
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.93%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.93%) Clearswift
6 1 (0.93%) Dell
6 1 (0.93%) F5
6 1 (0.93%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.93%) VMware