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 11 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 85 32 51
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 15.26% 10.88% 12.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 55.19% 26.67% 54.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 19 29
10th Percentile £277 £230 £406
25th Percentile £375 £288 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £619 £594 £638
90th Percentile £775 £690 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 13
10th Percentile £20.50 £21.01 £11.84
25th Percentile £25.58 £23.00 £15.81
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £20.47
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% +22.86% +12.84%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £86.00
90th Percentile - - £87.80
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £27.76 £56.15
% change year-on-year +108.03% -50.56% -6.43%

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 154 120 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 27.65% 40.82% 23.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 61
10th Percentile £251 £232 £136
25th Percentile £375 £293 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £503
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.40% -4.29%
75th Percentile £603 £488 £625
90th Percentile £775 £595 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 17 18
10th Percentile £18.84 £17.84 £11.02
25th Percentile £25.77 £23.00 £16.65
Median hourly rate £36.70 £25.15 £22.83
Median % change year-on-year +45.92% +10.19% +25.83%
75th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £82.19
90th Percentile £55.00 £42.75 £87.80
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +63.93% -23.75% -27.27%

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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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +15 61 £600 +12.68% 25
West Wales +1 14 £488 +2.63% 1
North Wales -4 7 £200 -6.98% 1
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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 5 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Apache
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.41%) Azure
2 13 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (11.76%) GitHub
4 4 (4.71%) AWS
4 4 (4.71%) GCP
5 3 (3.53%) BrowserStack
5 3 (3.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.53%) SonarCloud
6 2 (2.35%) Cloud Run
6 2 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.35%) Miro
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.18%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (1.18%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (1.18%) DHCP
1 1 (1.18%) DNS
1 1 (1.18%) Firewall
1 1 (1.18%) LAN
1 1 (1.18%) SAN
1 1 (1.18%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.53%) Metadata
1 3 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.18%) Adabas
3 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.18%) Big Data
3 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.18%) Cloud Spanner
3 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.18%) Db2
3 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.18%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (8.24%) JIRA
2 2 (2.35%) JMeter
2 2 (2.35%) MSTest
2 2 (2.35%) Selenium
2 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.18%) Git
3 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 25 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 14 (16.47%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.41%) Military
4 4 (4.71%) Finance
5 2 (2.35%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.18%) Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Billing
6 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (11.76%) Architect
1 10 (11.76%) Senior
2 9 (10.59%) Technical Architect
3 8 (9.41%) Analyst
3 8 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (7.06%) Data Engineer
4 6 (7.06%) Developer
5 5 (5.88%) Tester
6 4 (4.71%) .NET Developer
6 4 (4.71%) Administrator
6 4 (4.71%) Automation Tester
6 4 (4.71%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.71%) Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (4.71%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 4 (4.71%) Network Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
6 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Software Developer
6 4 (4.71%) Test Analyst
6 4 (4.71%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.94%) Playwright
2 4 (4.71%) .NET
2 4 (4.71%) Web Services
3 3 (3.53%) ADO
3 3 (3.53%) Middleware
3 3 (3.53%) PySpark
4 2 (2.35%) Flask
4 2 (2.35%) Jinja
4 2 (2.35%) RESTful
4 2 (2.35%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (2.35%) Spring
4 2 (2.35%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.18%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.35%) NHS
2 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.18%) Clustering
3 1 (1.18%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.18%) Windows
2 5 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.53%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.18%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.18%) Linux
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (18.82%) DevOps
3 15 (17.65%) ITSM
3 15 (17.65%) Test Automation
4 12 (14.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (12.94%) Agile
5 11 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (12.94%) Decision-Making
6 10 (11.76%) Service Delivery
7 9 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (10.59%) Mentoring
7 9 (10.59%) Workflow
8 8 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (8.24%) Migration
9 7 (8.24%) Workflow Management
10 6 (7.06%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (7.06%) User Research
11 5 (5.88%) Acceptance Criteria
11 5 (5.88%) Customer Service
11 5 (5.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.12%) SQL
2 10 (11.76%) Python
3 8 (9.41%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.24%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.06%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.88%) Java
7 4 (4.71%) C#
8 2 (2.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (89.41%) SC Cleared
2 8 (9.41%) CCNA
2 8 (9.41%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.35%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.18%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) SLA
2 3 (3.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.53%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.71%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.18%) NFS
3 1 (1.18%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) Ansible
2 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.35%) Kibana
3 2 (2.35%) SCCM
4 1 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.18%) SnapMirror
4 1 (1.18%) SnapVault
4 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (12.94%) Salesforce
2 8 (9.41%) Cisco
3 6 (7.06%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.06%) VMware
4 4 (4.71%) Databricks
4 4 (4.71%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.35%) Google
5 2 (2.35%) PagerDuty
5 2 (2.35%) Remedy
6 1 (1.18%) Apple
6 1 (1.18%) BMC
6 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.18%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.18%) IBM
6 1 (1.18%) NetApp
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle
6 1 (1.18%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.18%) Splunk
6 1 (1.18%) Veeam