Government Security Classifications Job Trends in Wales

Government Security Classifications (GSC)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Government Security Classifications skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Government Security Classifications 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.055% - 0.049%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.60% - 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £53,000
75th Percentile - - £54,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +28.00% +8.70% +21.73%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wales

Government Security Classifications falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 166 87 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 9.14% 16.93% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 84 52 186
10th Percentile £33,627 £34,225 £25,625
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £41,654
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +35.04% -3.24%
75th Percentile £68,813 £70,338 £52,500
90th Percentile £78,151 £74,082 £62,200
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

Government Security Classifications
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Government Security Classifications relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Government Security Classifications job vacancy trend in Wales

Government Security Classifications
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Government Security Classifications within the Wales region over the 6 months to 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Wales - 1 £80,000 - 1
Government Security Classifications
UK

Government Security Classifications
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform