SC Cleared Jobs in Wales

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 12 22 49
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 +7
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 195 154 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 17.36% 9.41% 6.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.54% 24.21% 21.88%
Number of salaries quoted 42 23 22
10th Percentile £32,761 £32,225 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,177 £44,125 £32,967
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,238 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £69,680 £53,625 £48,750
90th Percentile £74,188 £82,500 £69,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,050
% change year-on-year -3.33% -0.08% +9.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 481 636 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 42.83% 38.85% 28.23%
Number of salaries quoted 210 296 273
10th Percentile £32,618 £30,875 £25,150
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,838 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,035 £45,614 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% +7.33% -4.49%
75th Percentile £61,000 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,181 £69,800 £67,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 +5 177 £57,291 +14.58% 22
West Wales - 9 £55,238 - 3
North Wales - 5 £33,500 - 3
Mid Wales - 3 £48,546 -
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 55 (28.21%) WebLogic
2 23 (11.79%) IIS
3 7 (3.59%) JBoss
3 7 (3.59%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.51%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.28%) Serverless
2 21 (10.77%) Azure
3 18 (9.23%) AWS
4 9 (4.62%) GCP
5 7 (3.59%) dbt
6 6 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.03%) GitHub
9 2 (1.03%) PaaS
9 2 (1.03%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.03%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (15.38%) VPN
2 28 (14.36%) Network Security
3 20 (10.26%) IPsec
3 20 (10.26%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (4.10%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.56%) Firewall
5 5 (2.56%) FTP
5 5 (2.56%) HTTP
5 5 (2.56%) Internet
5 5 (2.56%) LAN
5 5 (2.56%) SMTP
5 5 (2.56%) Sourcefire
5 5 (2.56%) WAN
6 2 (1.03%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (14.87%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.10%) RDBMS
3 8 (4.10%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.56%) Oracle Database
4 5 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.05%) Big Data
6 3 (1.54%) Data Vault
6 3 (1.54%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.54%) MySQL
6 3 (1.54%) Redis
7 2 (1.03%) JasperReports
7 2 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.51%) Metadata
8 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (14.36%) JIRA
2 23 (11.79%) GitLab
2 23 (11.79%) Sonatype Nexus
3 22 (11.28%) Git
4 7 (3.59%) IntelliJ
4 7 (3.59%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.54%) Selenium
6 2 (1.03%) Maven
7 1 (0.51%) JMeter
7 1 (0.51%) MSTest
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.51%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 75 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 71 (36.41%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (9.23%) Police
5 14 (7.18%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.56%) Finance
6 5 (2.56%) Games
6 5 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.56%) Legal
6 5 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.05%) Retail
8 3 (1.54%) Local Government
8 3 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.03%) Digital Economy
9 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (36.41%) Senior
2 63 (32.31%) Analyst
3 57 (29.23%) Support Analyst
4 56 (28.72%) Applications Support
4 56 (28.72%) Applications Support Analyst
5 33 (16.92%) Architect
6 32 (16.41%) Senior Analyst
6 32 (16.41%) Senior Applications Support
6 32 (16.41%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
6 32 (16.41%) Senior Support Analyst
7 23 (11.79%) Software Engineer
7 23 (11.79%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (10.77%) Consultant
9 20 (10.26%) Project Consultant
10 19 (9.74%) Presales Solution Architect
11 14 (7.18%) Java Engineer
11 14 (7.18%) Java Software Engineer
11 14 (7.18%) Senior Consultant
12 13 (6.67%) Network Consultant
12 13 (6.67%) Senior Project Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (38.46%) Spring
2 64 (32.82%) J2EE
3 61 (31.28%) Java EE
4 27 (13.85%) .NET
5 16 (8.21%) React
6 9 (4.62%) Ruby on Rails
6 9 (4.62%) XML
7 8 (4.10%) Node.js
7 8 (4.10%) Web Services
8 7 (3.59%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.59%) Hibernate
8 7 (3.59%) JPA
8 7 (3.59%) JSON
8 7 (3.59%) REST
8 7 (3.59%) SOAP
8 7 (3.59%) XSD
9 6 (3.08%) RESTful
10 5 (2.56%) Django
10 5 (2.56%) LDAP
11 2 (1.03%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.79%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.08%) Blog
3 5 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.56%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (2.56%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.56%) PKI
3 5 (2.56%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.05%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 62 (31.79%) Unix
2 38 (19.49%) Windows
3 23 (11.79%) Android
4 6 (3.08%) Linux
5 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (77.44%) Actionable Insight
2 120 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (39.49%) ITIL
4 70 (35.90%) Containerisation
5 60 (30.77%) Incident Management
6 59 (30.26%) Enterprise Architecture
7 55 (28.21%) Impact Assessments
7 55 (28.21%) Information Management
8 41 (21.03%) Agile
9 38 (19.49%) Service Management
10 32 (16.41%) Enterprise Search
11 30 (15.38%) Mentoring
12 29 (14.87%) Software Engineering
13 28 (14.36%) Customer Service
14 27 (13.85%) Analytics
15 23 (11.79%) Systems Analysis
16 22 (11.28%) Data Analytics
17 21 (10.77%) DevOps
17 21 (10.77%) Knowledge Transfer
17 21 (10.77%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 84 (43.08%) Java
2 37 (18.97%) C#
3 32 (16.41%) Shell Script
4 26 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 26 (13.33%) Python
5 15 (7.69%) Ruby
6 13 (6.67%) SQL
7 7 (3.59%) Bash
8 6 (3.08%) Go
8 6 (3.08%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.08%) Perl
9 2 (1.03%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 195 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.26%) CCNA
2 20 (10.26%) CCNP
2 20 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (5.64%) Degree
4 8 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.03%) CSPO
6 2 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (31.28%) SLA
2 10 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (28.21%) OpenSSO
1 55 (28.21%) Single Sign-On
2 25 (12.82%) FortiGate
3 23 (11.79%) AirWatch
4 7 (3.59%) Terraform
5 6 (3.08%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.51%) Ansible
Vendors
1 83 (42.56%) Oracle
2 39 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 32 (16.41%) Remedy
4 25 (12.82%) CheckPoint
4 25 (12.82%) Cisco
4 25 (12.82%) Juniper
5 20 (10.26%) Forcepoint
5 20 (10.26%) McAfee
5 20 (10.26%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.56%) ArcSight
6 5 (2.56%) F5
6 5 (2.56%) IBM
6 5 (2.56%) Splunk
6 5 (2.56%) TippingPoint
6 5 (2.56%) Trend Micro
7 4 (2.05%) VMware
8 3 (1.54%) Databricks
8 3 (1.54%) Google
8 3 (1.54%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.51%) Veeam