Security Cleared Jobs in Wales

Security Clearance
UK > Wales

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 6 14 40
Rank change year-on-year +8 +26 +12
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 264 190 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 23.74% 11.71% 6.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 55.81% 30.21% 25.34%
Number of salaries quoted 49 26 25
10th Percentile £32,840 £31,103 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,313 £33,618
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,238 £50,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +29.87% -9.41%
75th Percentile £69,319 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,485 £82,500 £82,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

Security 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 473 629 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 42.54% 38.76% 27.44%
Number of salaries quoted 206 291 269
10th Percentile £32,620 £30,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,438 £36,838 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,547 £45,083 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +6.08% -2.86%
75th Percentile £61,188 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,712 £69,800 £65,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Wales

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Wales

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Wales

Security 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 Security Cleared within the Wales region over the 6 months to 6 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 +2 230 £57,291 +14.58% 32
West Wales - 9 £55,238 - 4
North Wales - 5 £33,500 - 4
Mid Wales - 3 £48,546 -
Dyfed +2 1 £55,000 -
Security Cleared
UK

Security 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 (20.83%) WebLogic
2 23 (8.71%) IIS
3 7 (2.65%) JBoss
3 7 (2.65%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.85%) Serverless
2 25 (9.47%) Azure
3 22 (8.33%) AWS
4 13 (4.92%) GCP
5 10 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.65%) dbt
7 6 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.52%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.14%) PaaS
11 2 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.76%) GitHub
11 2 (0.76%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.76%) Pulumi
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Pipelines
12 1 (0.38%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 53 (20.08%) VPN
2 51 (19.32%) Network Security
3 31 (11.74%) TCP/IP
4 28 (10.61%) Firewall
4 28 (10.61%) FTP
4 28 (10.61%) HTTP
4 28 (10.61%) Internet
4 28 (10.61%) LAN
4 28 (10.61%) SMTP
4 28 (10.61%) Sourcefire
4 28 (10.61%) WAN
5 23 (8.71%) Intrusion Detection
6 20 (7.58%) IPsec
6 20 (7.58%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.76%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (22.73%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (10.98%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 8 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.89%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.52%) Big Data
6 3 (1.14%) Data Vault
6 3 (1.14%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.14%) MySQL
6 3 (1.14%) Redis
7 2 (0.76%) JasperReports
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.38%) Metadata
8 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (11.36%) JIRA
2 23 (8.71%) GitLab
2 23 (8.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 22 (8.33%) Git
4 7 (2.65%) IntelliJ
4 7 (2.65%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.14%) Selenium
6 2 (0.76%) Maven
7 1 (0.38%) JMeter
7 1 (0.38%) MSTest
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.38%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 106 (40.15%) Social Skills
2 99 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (17.80%) Games
4 26 (9.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (9.47%) Finance
6 19 (7.20%) Banking
7 18 (6.82%) Police
8 16 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (5.68%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.89%) Legal
11 4 (1.52%) Retail
12 3 (1.14%) Local Government
12 3 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.76%) Digital Economy
13 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (32.58%) Analyst
2 81 (30.68%) Senior
3 57 (21.59%) Support Analyst
4 56 (21.21%) Applications Support
4 56 (21.21%) Applications Support Analyst
5 52 (19.70%) Architect
6 36 (13.64%) Senior Analyst
7 32 (12.12%) Senior Applications Support
7 32 (12.12%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
7 32 (12.12%) Senior Support Analyst
8 28 (10.61%) SOC Analyst
9 27 (10.23%) Software Engineer
10 23 (8.71%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (8.33%) Consultant
12 20 (7.58%) Project Consultant
12 20 (7.58%) Security Architect
13 19 (7.20%) Presales Solution Architect
14 15 (5.68%) Business Manager
14 15 (5.68%) Development Manager
14 15 (5.68%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (28.41%) Spring
2 64 (24.24%) J2EE
3 61 (23.11%) Java EE
4 28 (10.61%) LDAP
5 27 (10.23%) .NET
6 16 (6.06%) React
7 9 (3.41%) Ruby on Rails
7 9 (3.41%) XML
8 8 (3.03%) Node.js
8 8 (3.03%) Web Services
9 7 (2.65%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.65%) Hibernate
9 7 (2.65%) JPA
9 7 (2.65%) JSON
9 7 (2.65%) REST
9 7 (2.65%) SOAP
9 7 (2.65%) XSD
10 6 (2.27%) RESTful
11 5 (1.89%) Django
11 5 (1.89%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.61%) Analytical Mindset
1 28 (10.61%) Cyber Threat
1 28 (10.61%) PKI
1 28 (10.61%) Security Operations Centre
2 23 (8.71%) Data Centre
3 7 (2.65%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.27%) Blog
5 5 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.89%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.89%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.52%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.76%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 62 (23.48%) Unix
2 38 (14.39%) Windows
3 23 (8.71%) Android
4 10 (3.79%) Linux
5 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (79.55%) Actionable Insight
2 144 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 91 (34.47%) Containerisation
4 77 (29.17%) ITIL
5 60 (22.73%) Incident Management
6 59 (22.35%) Enterprise Architecture
7 55 (20.83%) Impact Assessments
7 55 (20.83%) Information Management
8 50 (18.94%) Cybersecurity
9 47 (17.80%) Agile
9 47 (17.80%) SIEM
10 38 (14.39%) Service Management
11 33 (12.50%) Software Engineering
12 32 (12.12%) Enterprise Search
13 31 (11.74%) Mentoring
14 30 (11.36%) Coaching
15 28 (10.61%) Analytics
15 28 (10.61%) Compliance Audit
15 28 (10.61%) Data Loss Prevention
15 28 (10.61%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 88 (33.33%) Java
2 37 (14.02%) C#
3 33 (12.50%) Python
4 32 (12.12%) Shell Script
5 27 (10.23%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.68%) Ruby
7 14 (5.30%) SQL
8 7 (2.65%) Bash
9 6 (2.27%) Go
9 6 (2.27%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.27%) Perl
10 2 (0.76%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 195 (73.86%) SC Cleared
2 20 (7.58%) CCNA
2 20 (7.58%) CCNP
2 20 (7.58%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (6.06%) Degree
4 12 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.89%) CISA
5 5 (1.89%) CISM
5 5 (1.89%) CISSP
5 5 (1.89%) CRISC
6 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.76%) CSPO
7 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (23.11%) SLA
2 10 (3.79%) QA
3 5 (1.89%) GRC
3 5 (1.89%) ISO 22301
3 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.89%) NIST
4 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (7.20%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (20.83%) OpenSSO
1 55 (20.83%) Single Sign-On
2 48 (18.18%) FortiGate
3 23 (8.71%) AirWatch
4 8 (3.03%) Terraform
5 7 (2.65%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 84 (31.82%) Oracle
2 48 (18.18%) CheckPoint
2 48 (18.18%) Cisco
2 48 (18.18%) Juniper
3 43 (16.29%) Microsoft
4 32 (12.12%) Remedy
5 28 (10.61%) ArcSight
5 28 (10.61%) F5
5 28 (10.61%) IBM
5 28 (10.61%) Splunk
5 28 (10.61%) TippingPoint
5 28 (10.61%) Trend Micro
6 20 (7.58%) Forcepoint
6 20 (7.58%) McAfee
6 20 (7.58%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.27%) Databricks
8 5 (1.89%) CA
9 4 (1.52%) VMware
10 3 (1.14%) Google
10 3 (1.14%) ServiceNow