SC Cleared Job Trends in Wales

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 25 28
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +24
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 113 38 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 6.16% 7.29% 4.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.09% 24.68% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 94 23 44
10th Percentile £43,600 £37,733 £37,101
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,125 £42,410
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -6.46% +94.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,818 £64,063
90th Percentile £87,125 £85,421 £70,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

SC 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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 469 154 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 25.56% 29.56% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 179 93 193
10th Percentile £30,900 £36,434 £26,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £57,500 £46,131
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +24.65% +8.54%
75th Percentile £70,751 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,209 £70,147
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,772
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.28% -10.38%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Wales

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Wales

SC Cleared
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Wales region over the 6 months to 7 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
South Wales +8 97 £53,000 -3.64% 24
West Wales -10 16 £69,501 +84.19% 6
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
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 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.77%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.89%) Azure
2 23 (20.35%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (15.93%) AWS
4 10 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.31%) Serverless
6 5 (4.42%) PaaS
7 4 (3.54%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.54%) IaaS
8 3 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.65%) SaaS
9 2 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.88%) GCP
10 1 (0.88%) GitHub
10 1 (0.88%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.88%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.88%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 20 (17.70%) Firewall
2 16 (14.16%) DHCP
2 16 (14.16%) DNS
3 9 (7.96%) WAN
4 8 (7.08%) BGP
4 8 (7.08%) MPLS
4 8 (7.08%) VPN
5 5 (4.42%) LAN
5 5 (4.42%) Network Security
5 5 (4.42%) VoIP
6 4 (3.54%) HSRP
6 4 (3.54%) SD-WAN
6 4 (3.54%) VPLS
6 4 (3.54%) VRRP
7 1 (0.88%) Converged Networks
7 1 (0.88%) PBX
7 1 (0.88%) Skype
7 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.88%) WebEx
7 1 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.96%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.65%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.77%) Redis
4 1 (0.88%) Adabas
4 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.88%) MySQL
4 1 (0.88%) Power BI
4 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (7.96%) Git
2 3 (2.65%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.65%) Selenium
3 2 (1.77%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.77%) JIRA
4 1 (0.88%) JUnit
4 1 (0.88%) Mocha
4 1 (0.88%) RSpec
General
1 34 (30.09%) Public Sector
2 21 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.54%) Finance
8 3 (2.65%) Welsh Language
9 2 (1.77%) Back Office
9 2 (1.77%) Military
10 1 (0.88%) Aviation
10 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (25.66%) Senior
2 26 (23.01%) Support Engineer
3 24 (21.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 24 (21.24%) 3rd Line Support
3 24 (21.24%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 24 (21.24%) IT Engineer
3 24 (21.24%) IT Support
3 24 (21.24%) IT Support Engineer
4 18 (15.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (12.39%) Architect
6 13 (11.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.96%) Network Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (7.08%) Cloud Security Architect
8 8 (7.08%) Developer
8 8 (7.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Security Architect
8 8 (7.08%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Systems Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.08%) Spring
1 8 (7.08%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.31%) Node.js
2 6 (5.31%) Ruby on Rails
3 4 (3.54%) ModSecurity
4 3 (2.65%) OpenAPI
4 3 (2.65%) React
5 2 (1.77%) .NET
5 2 (1.77%) CSS
5 2 (1.77%) CSS3
5 2 (1.77%) HTML
5 2 (1.77%) HTML5
5 2 (1.77%) Playwright
6 1 (0.88%) Django
6 1 (0.88%) Jest
6 1 (0.88%) REST
6 1 (0.88%) RESTful
6 1 (0.88%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.27%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.31%) CMDB
3 5 (4.42%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.54%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.54%) PKI
4 4 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.65%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.65%) Replication
6 2 (1.77%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.77%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) IVR
7 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.01%) Windows
2 18 (15.93%) Linux
3 12 (10.62%) Mac OS
3 12 (10.62%) Windows Server
4 9 (7.96%) Unix
5 8 (7.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.77%) AIX
6 2 (1.77%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (28.32%) ITIL
2 25 (22.12%) Technical Leadership
3 21 (18.58%) DevOps
4 20 (17.70%) Kalman Filter
4 20 (17.70%) Web Filtering
5 19 (16.81%) Mentoring
6 18 (15.93%) Agile
6 18 (15.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 18 (15.93%) Migration
7 16 (14.16%) Problem Management
8 15 (13.27%) CI/CD
9 14 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (11.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (11.50%) Service Delivery
10 13 (11.50%) SIEM
10 13 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (10.62%) Security Management
11 12 (10.62%) Test Automation
12 11 (9.73%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.39%) Python
2 12 (10.62%) Java
3 11 (9.73%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.31%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.31%) Ruby
5 4 (3.54%) SQL
6 3 (2.65%) Bash
6 3 (2.65%) C#
7 2 (1.77%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.88%) Natural
Qualifications
1 113 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.35%) DV Cleared
3 16 (14.16%) Degree
4 8 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.54%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.54%) CCIE
6 4 (3.54%) CCNP
7 3 (2.65%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.77%) CISM
8 2 (1.77%) CISSP
8 2 (1.77%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.77%) PMP
9 1 (0.88%) APMP
9 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.88%) CCNA
9 1 (0.88%) CIPD
9 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.96%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (7.96%) PCI DSS
2 7 (6.19%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.19%) JSP 440
3 5 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.54%) NIST
4 4 (3.54%) SLA
5 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (1.77%) QA
6 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.88%) GDPR
6 1 (0.88%) GRC
6 1 (0.88%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (21.24%) Active Directory
2 20 (17.70%) Hyper-V
2 20 (17.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (9.73%) Docker
5 8 (7.08%) Terminal Server
5 8 (7.08%) VMware NSX
6 4 (3.54%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (10.62%) Proxmox
1 12 (10.62%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 9 (7.96%) Ansible
2 9 (7.96%) Terraform
3 5 (4.42%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.54%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 30 (26.55%) Microsoft
2 28 (24.78%) VMware
3 12 (10.62%) Splunk
4 9 (7.96%) Cisco
5 8 (7.08%) Brocade
5 8 (7.08%) Nimble Storage
5 8 (7.08%) SolarWinds
5 8 (7.08%) Tanium
5 8 (7.08%) Veeam
6 3 (2.65%) OneLogin
6 3 (2.65%) Oracle
7 1 (0.88%) BMC
7 1 (0.88%) Genesys
7 1 (0.88%) Google
7 1 (0.88%) Remedy
7 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.88%) Verint