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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -24 +2 +14
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 32 212 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 4.18% 14.45% 15.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.22% 60.23% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 24 42 37
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,101 £24,408
25th Percentile £46,938 £42,760 £26,391
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £58,800 £27,946
Median % change year-on-year -4.34% +110.41% -50.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,250 £38,750
90th Percentile £82,623 £82,500 £57,350
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £54,395 £30,205
% change year-on-year +1.11% +80.09% -46.66%

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 225 352 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 29.37% 23.99% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 181 126 156
10th Percentile £42,000 £29,250 £26,391
25th Percentile £55,000 £37,101 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £46,604 £43,224
Median % change year-on-year +39.47% +7.82% -3.95%
75th Percentile £70,600 £60,000 £60,987
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,925 £68,497
Wales median annual salary £62,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +37.78% +5.88% -5.56%

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 11 May 2025.

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 11 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newport -9 13 £52,000 +0.97% 22
Cardiff +7 7 £67,626 +12.71% 20
Gwent +6 5 £47,000 +4.44% 10
Monmouthshire -1 5 £65,000 -
Neath Port Talbot - 2 £42,500 - 3
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 7 (21.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.63%) GitHub
3 5 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
4 3 (9.38%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (6.25%) Serverless
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.13%) dbt
6 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.13%) BGP
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) OSPF
2 1 (3.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (18.75%) Redis
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) JIRA
2 6 (18.75%) Git
3 5 (15.63%) SonarQube
4 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.13%) JMeter
5 1 (3.13%) NUnit
5 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.13%) Selenium
5 1 (3.13%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (3.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (34.38%) Public Sector
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Electronics
5 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.25%) Marketing
5 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.13%) Back Office
6 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Senior
2 9 (28.13%) Developer
2 9 (28.13%) Senior Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Design Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) FPGA Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Backend Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Backend Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Desktop Support Technician
7 1 (3.13%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Tester
7 1 (3.13%) Support Technician
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Django
2 5 (15.63%) FastAPI
2 5 (15.63%) Flask
2 5 (15.63%) GraphQL
2 5 (15.63%) Keycloak
2 5 (15.63%) OAuth
2 5 (15.63%) pytest
2 5 (15.63%) RESTful
2 5 (15.63%) SQLAlchemy
2 5 (15.63%) WebSockets
3 2 (6.25%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) e-Learning
1 6 (18.75%) FPGA
2 5 (15.63%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.25%) CUDA
4 2 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Unix
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
1 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (31.25%) DevOps
3 7 (21.88%) Agile
3 7 (21.88%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (21.88%) Machine Learning
3 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 6 (18.75%) FPGA Design
4 6 (18.75%) Innovative Thinking
5 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
5 5 (15.63%) Front End Development
5 5 (15.63%) Scrum
6 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (9.38%) CRM
6 3 (9.38%) Incident Response
6 3 (9.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (9.38%) User Research
7 2 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
3 3 (9.38%) C#
3 3 (9.38%) Java
3 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) C++
4 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (81.25%) SC Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (15.63%) Degree
3 3 (9.38%) CSPO
3 3 (9.38%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (3.13%) CISSP
4 1 (3.13%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) GCIH
4 1 (3.13%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) GRC
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) NCSC
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Grafana
1 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
1 5 (15.63%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (3.13%) Iperf
2 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
3 1 (3.13%) VMware