SC Cleared Jobs 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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 15 23
Rank change year-on-year -25 +8 +4
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 41 196 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.96% 8.14% 9.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.46% 39.76% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 25 46 36
10th Percentile £37,733 £37,101 -
25th Percentile £51,000 £42,742 £26,391
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,800 £29,075
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +102.23% -49.21%
75th Percentile £74,258 £66,875 £49,600
90th Percentile £84,066 £76,262 £67,650
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +12.08%

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 392 493 677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 28.28% 20.48% 39.48%
Number of salaries quoted 245 198 235
10th Percentile £37,733 £26,500 £26,391
25th Percentile £48,531 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £46,604 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.33% +9.66% -5.56%
75th Percentile £70,600 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,250 £68,497
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,977 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.82% -11.71% +9.09%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Wales

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in Wales

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

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 21 June 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
South Wales -26 29 £57,500 -2.21% 93
West Wales +13 5 £37,733 -20.25% 8
Mid Wales - 4 - -
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (4.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) Azure
2 7 (17.07%) Entra ID
3 6 (14.63%) Serverless
4 4 (9.76%) AWS
5 3 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Functions
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Stack
5 3 (7.32%) Power Automate
5 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.32%) PowerApps
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.44%) dbt
7 1 (2.44%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) BGP
1 3 (7.32%) Firewall
1 3 (7.32%) OSPF
1 3 (7.32%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.88%) Network Security
2 2 (4.88%) VLAN
3 1 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (2.44%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.44%) Internet
3 1 (2.44%) IPsec
3 1 (2.44%) VPN
3 1 (2.44%) VXLAN
3 1 (2.44%) WAN
3 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.44%) GIS
2 1 (2.44%) Redis
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) JIRA
1 2 (4.88%) JMeter
General
1 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Finance
3 9 (21.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (21.95%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.88%) Back Office
6 2 (4.88%) Electronics
6 2 (4.88%) Marketing
6 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.44%) Environmental Health
7 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Design Engineer
1 9 (21.95%) FPGA Design Engineer
1 9 (21.95%) FPGA Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Senior
3 4 (9.76%) Architect
3 4 (9.76%) Developer
3 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Lead
3 4 (9.76%) Senior Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) IT Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Desktop Support
5 2 (4.88%) Desktop Support Technician
5 2 (4.88%) Security Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Support Technician
5 2 (4.88%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (7.32%) Node.js
2 1 (2.44%) Django
2 1 (2.44%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.44%) React
2 1 (2.44%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) e-Learning
1 9 (21.95%) FPGA
2 5 (12.20%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.32%) Acoustics
3 3 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.88%) CUDA
5 1 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Windows
2 4 (9.76%) Linux
3 3 (7.32%) Rocky
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (4.88%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (21.95%) FPGA Design
2 9 (21.95%) Innovative Thinking
3 6 (14.63%) Agile
3 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (7.32%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (7.32%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (7.32%) CI/CD
5 3 (7.32%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (7.32%) Containerisation
5 3 (7.32%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (7.32%) DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Microservices
5 3 (7.32%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (7.32%) SDLC
5 3 (7.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (7.32%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (7.32%) Systems Thinking
5 3 (7.32%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.63%) Python
2 4 (9.76%) C#
2 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
2 4 (9.76%) TypeScript
3 3 (7.32%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) C++
4 2 (4.88%) SQL
5 1 (2.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.07%) Degree
3 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (7.32%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (4.88%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.44%) GCIH
6 1 (2.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.88%) NCSC
2 2 (4.88%) NIST
2 2 (4.88%) SLA
3 1 (2.44%) GRC
3 1 (2.44%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
1 3 (7.32%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.32%) Terraform
2 2 (4.88%) Argo
2 2 (4.88%) Iperf
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Cisco
1 3 (7.32%) Dell
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.32%) SAP
1 3 (7.32%) SolarWinds
2 2 (4.88%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.88%) PagerDuty
2 2 (4.88%) VMware
3 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.44%) ESRI
3 1 (2.44%) F5
3 1 (2.44%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) Juniper
3 1 (2.44%) LogRhythm
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.44%) Tufin