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 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 46 13 28
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 +24
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 38 207 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.64% 10.13% 7.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.41% 41.24% 20.71%
Number of salaries quoted 26 44 41
10th Percentile £39,492 £36,402 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,463 £26,391
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £50,750 £30,205
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +68.02% -47.01%
75th Percentile £69,029 £62,588 £47,250
90th Percentile £89,638 £70,250 £57,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,063
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.27% +4.88%

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 404 502 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 38.66% 24.56% 37.78%
Number of salaries quoted 238 188 230
10th Percentile £37,574 £26,500 £26,391
25th Percentile £47,683 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.78% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £69,890 £69,336
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,250
% change year-on-year +1.85% -8.86% +7.73%

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 11 May 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 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
South Wales -28 26 £53,750 -7.57% 31
West Wales +13 6 £43,419 -5.88% 4
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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.53%) Serverless
3 3 (7.89%) AWS
3 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.89%) Power Automate
3 3 (7.89%) PowerApps
4 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.63%) dbt
5 1 (2.63%) GCP
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.63%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) BGP
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
1 3 (7.89%) OSPF
1 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.26%) VLAN
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (2.63%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.63%) Internet
3 1 (2.63%) IPsec
3 1 (2.63%) Network Security
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
3 1 (2.63%) VXLAN
3 1 (2.63%) WAN
3 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.63%) GIS
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) JMeter
3 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (21.05%) Finance
4 7 (18.42%) Public Sector
5 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.89%) Manufacturing
7 2 (5.26%) Electronics
7 2 (5.26%) Marketing
7 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.63%) Back Office
8 1 (2.63%) Environmental Health
8 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Senior
2 6 (15.79%) Design Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) FPGA Design Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) FPGA Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) Consultant
4 3 (7.89%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Lead
4 3 (7.89%) Senior Consultant
4 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Security Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Security Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (5.26%) Node.js
1 2 (5.26%) Web Services
2 1 (2.63%) Django
2 1 (2.63%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.63%) React
2 1 (2.63%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) e-Learning
1 6 (15.79%) FPGA
2 3 (7.89%) Acoustics
2 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.26%) CUDA
3 2 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Unix
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
1 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (21.05%) Agile
3 6 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (15.79%) FPGA Design
3 6 (15.79%) Innovative Thinking
3 6 (15.79%) Machine Learning
4 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (13.16%) DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.53%) Risk Management
5 4 (10.53%) Scrum
6 3 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (7.89%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (7.89%) CRM
6 3 (7.89%) Information Security
6 3 (7.89%) OO
6 3 (7.89%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (7.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (7.89%) Software Engineering
6 3 (7.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.89%) C#
3 3 (7.89%) Java
3 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.26%) C++
4 2 (5.26%) SQL
5 1 (2.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.05%) Degree
3 3 (7.89%) CISSP
3 3 (7.89%) CSPO
3 3 (7.89%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (2.63%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) GCIH
4 1 (2.63%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) GRC
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) NCSC
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Iperf
1 2 (5.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Argo
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.89%) SolarWinds
2 2 (5.26%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.26%) Cisco
2 2 (5.26%) SAP
2 2 (5.26%) VMware
3 1 (2.63%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.63%) ESRI
3 1 (2.63%) F5
3 1 (2.63%) Google
3 1 (2.63%) Juniper
3 1 (2.63%) LogRhythm
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle
3 1 (2.63%) PagerDuty
3 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.63%) Tufin