Security Cleared Jobs in South Wales

Security Clearance
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 +14
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 56 232 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 7.04% 27.33% 15.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.11% 62.03% 42.96%
Number of salaries quoted 47 30 26
10th Percentile £46,713 £41,236 £31,103
25th Percentile £56,373 £43,153 £43,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,291 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +14.58% +23.46%
75th Percentile £73,538 £69,800 £62,500
90th Percentile £84,760 £74,923 £82,500
Wales median annual salary £65,000 £55,238 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.67% +10.48% +23.46%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 180 374 426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 22.61% 44.05% 35.86%
Number of salaries quoted 104 129 209
10th Percentile £41,594 £32,724 £26,865
25th Percentile £45,375 £40,770 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -2.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,445 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,144 £73,275 £65,971
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £45,035 £45,083
% change year-on-year +22.13% -0.11% +6.08%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in South Wales

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in South Wales.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in South Wales

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in South Wales over the 6 months to 4 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in South Wales

Security Cleared
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 4 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff -1 22 £60,000 +4.73% 9
Newport +2 15 £65,000 +41.12% 7
Monmouthshire - 12 £65,000 -
Gwent - 7 £47,000 - 6
Security Cleared
Wales

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 16 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) Appian
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) Azure
2 16 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (26.79%) dbt
3 15 (26.79%) GitHub
4 12 (21.43%) AWS
4 12 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (7.14%) GCP
5 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (5.36%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (5.36%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.36%) PaaS
6 3 (5.36%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) H.323
2 3 (5.36%) Internet
2 3 (5.36%) LAN
2 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.36%) VSAN
2 3 (5.36%) WAN
2 3 (5.36%) WebEx
3 2 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (1.79%) DNS
4 1 (1.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.79%) PostgreSQL
1 15 (26.79%) Redis
2 3 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.57%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (33.93%) JIRA
2 13 (23.21%) Git
3 12 (21.43%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.36%) GitLab
4 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.57%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.79%) NUnit
6 1 (1.79%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.79%) Selenium
6 1 (1.79%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (1.79%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.79%) Visual LANSA
General
1 22 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (26.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.57%) Aerospace
3 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (39.29%) Senior
2 18 (32.14%) Developer
3 15 (26.79%) Senior Developer
4 12 (21.43%) Backend Developer
4 12 (21.43%) Senior Backend Developer
5 6 (10.71%) Lead
5 6 (10.71%) Network Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Lead Cisco Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Technical Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Product Manager
8 2 (3.57%) Security Researcher
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (41.07%) Django
2 15 (26.79%) OAuth
3 12 (21.43%) FastAPI
3 12 (21.43%) Flask
3 12 (21.43%) GraphQL
3 12 (21.43%) Keycloak
3 12 (21.43%) pytest
3 12 (21.43%) RESTful
3 12 (21.43%) SQLAlchemy
3 12 (21.43%) WebSockets
4 5 (8.93%) Node.js
5 3 (5.36%) OAuth2
5 3 (5.36%) React
5 3 (5.36%) SAML
5 3 (5.36%) XMPP
6 2 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.36%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (5.36%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (3.57%) Blog
4 2 (3.57%) Cyberattack
4 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.79%) AS400
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) Unix
3 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) DevOps
2 21 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 15 (26.79%) Agile
3 15 (26.79%) Containerisation
3 15 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (21.43%) Front End Development
5 11 (19.64%) Roadmaps
6 9 (16.07%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (16.07%) Machine Learning
7 8 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (12.50%) Open Source
8 7 (12.50%) Scrum
9 6 (10.71%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (8.93%) Line Management
10 5 (8.93%) Mentoring
10 5 (8.93%) Prototyping
10 5 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (8.93%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 26 (46.43%) Python
2 17 (30.36%) SQL
3 3 (5.36%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (3.57%) Java
4 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.57%) Rust
5 1 (1.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 33 (58.93%) SC Cleared
2 13 (23.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (19.64%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (14.29%) CCNA
5 6 (10.71%) CCNP
6 3 (5.36%) CCIE
6 3 (5.36%) CSPO
6 3 (5.36%) Degree
6 3 (5.36%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (3.57%) CISSP
7 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) GRC
2 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (30.36%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 12 (21.43%) Grafana
2 12 (21.43%) Prometheus
3 4 (7.14%) Terraform
4 3 (5.36%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (5.36%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.79%) Ansible
5 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.29%) Cisco
3 6 (10.71%) Fortinet
4 4 (7.14%) Google
5 3 (5.36%) Splunk
5 3 (5.36%) VMware
6 2 (3.57%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.57%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.79%) IBM
7 1 (1.79%) LANSA
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle
7 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow