Security Cleared Job Trends in Wales

Security Clearance
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 23 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -13
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 175 52 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 5.61% 6.27% 5.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.93% 27.66% 29.96%
Number of salaries quoted 149 32 56
10th Percentile £40,000 £49,425 £46,713
25th Percentile £45,156 £51,625 £54,249
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £69,692 £62,054
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +12.31% +31.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,299
90th Percentile £86,250 - £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

Security 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 501 188 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 16.05% 22.68% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 277 108 134
10th Percentile £32,257 £29,750 £35,331
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,745 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,395 £58,000 £54,272
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +6.87% +20.60%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,891
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,357
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.64% -4.56%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Wales

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

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 13 September 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 +11 159 £64,250 -8.21% 38
West Wales -47 15 £51,619 -2.02% 5
Security Cleared
UK

Security 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 11 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.00%) Confluence
3 4 (2.29%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.57%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 43 (24.57%) Azure
2 38 (21.71%) AWS
3 21 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (8.57%) Serverless
5 14 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.57%) GCP
8 7 (4.00%) dbt
9 6 (3.43%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.43%) GitHub
9 6 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.29%) IaaS
10 4 (2.29%) PaaS
10 4 (2.29%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.71%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.29%) DNS
2 16 (9.14%) DHCP
3 15 (8.57%) Firewall
4 10 (5.71%) WAN
5 7 (4.00%) BGP
5 7 (4.00%) MPLS
5 7 (4.00%) VPN
6 6 (3.43%) LAN
6 6 (3.43%) Network Security
7 5 (2.86%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.71%) HSRP
8 3 (1.71%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.71%) VoIP
8 3 (1.71%) VPLS
8 3 (1.71%) VRRP
9 2 (1.14%) FTP
9 2 (1.14%) HTTP
9 2 (1.14%) Internet
9 2 (1.14%) SMTP
10 1 (0.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.86%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.57%) Adabas
5 1 (0.57%) MySQL
5 1 (0.57%) Power BI
5 1 (0.57%) Redis
5 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (8.00%) Git
2 8 (4.57%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.00%) Cypress.io
3 7 (4.00%) JIRA
4 5 (2.86%) Selenium
5 3 (1.71%) JUnit
6 1 (0.57%) Mocha
6 1 (0.57%) RSpec
General
1 47 (26.86%) Public Sector
2 39 (22.29%) Social Skills
3 27 (15.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.29%) Finance
6 8 (4.57%) Welsh Language
7 7 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.71%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.71%) Police
10 2 (1.14%) Legal
10 2 (1.14%) Military
11 1 (0.57%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.57%) Aviation
11 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (29.14%) Senior
2 35 (20.00%) Developer
3 23 (13.14%) Senior Developer
4 22 (12.57%) Systems Engineer
5 21 (12.00%) Architect
6 18 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (9.71%) Cloud Architect
7 17 (9.71%) Cloud Security Architect
7 17 (9.71%) Security Architect
8 16 (9.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 16 (9.14%) 3rd Line Support
8 16 (9.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 16 (9.14%) IT Engineer
8 16 (9.14%) IT Support
8 16 (9.14%) IT Support Engineer
8 16 (9.14%) Support Engineer
9 15 (8.57%) Software Developer
10 13 (7.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (6.86%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (6.29%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.00%) Spring
1 21 (12.00%) Spring Boot
2 15 (8.57%) Ruby on Rails
3 13 (7.43%) Terraform
4 12 (6.86%) React
5 10 (5.71%) Node.js
6 7 (4.00%) CSS
6 7 (4.00%) CSS3
6 7 (4.00%) HTML
6 7 (4.00%) HTML5
6 7 (4.00%) Playwright
7 6 (3.43%) Jest
7 6 (3.43%) RESTful
8 5 (2.86%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.86%) Next.js
8 5 (2.86%) OpenAPI
9 4 (2.29%) REST
10 3 (1.71%) ModSecurity
11 2 (1.14%) .NET
11 2 (1.14%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (6.86%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.57%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.00%) CMDB
6 6 (3.43%) Mainframe
7 5 (2.86%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.29%) PKI
9 3 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.71%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.71%) Replication
9 3 (1.71%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (1.14%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (1.14%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.86%) Linux
2 24 (13.71%) Windows
3 16 (9.14%) Unix
4 15 (8.57%) Windows Server
5 9 (5.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (4.57%) Mac OS
7 6 (3.43%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (32.00%) Agile
2 42 (24.00%) DevOps
3 34 (19.43%) CI/CD
4 32 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (16.00%) ITIL
6 24 (13.71%) TDD
7 22 (12.57%) Software Engineering
8 21 (12.00%) Cloud Security
8 21 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
9 20 (11.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 20 (11.43%) Mentoring
10 19 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (10.86%) Test Automation
11 18 (10.29%) Clean Code
11 18 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (9.71%) AI
12 17 (9.71%) Kalman Filter
12 17 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (9.71%) SIEM
12 17 (9.71%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 47 (26.86%) Java
2 23 (13.14%) Python
3 15 (8.57%) JavaScript
3 15 (8.57%) Ruby
4 13 (7.43%) TypeScript
5 12 (6.86%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.71%) SQL
7 9 (5.14%) Scala
8 5 (2.86%) C#
9 3 (1.71%) Bash
10 1 (0.57%) Natural
Qualifications
1 161 (92.00%) SC Cleared
2 22 (12.57%) DV Cleared
3 17 (9.71%) Degree
4 7 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.29%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.71%) CCIE
6 3 (1.71%) CCNP
7 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.14%) CISM
7 2 (1.14%) CISSP
7 2 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.14%) PMP
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.57%) CCNA
8 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.57%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.57%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (5.14%) PCI DSS
3 8 (4.57%) WCAG
4 7 (4.00%) JSP 440
4 7 (4.00%) QA
5 6 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.86%) NIST
6 5 (2.86%) SLA
7 3 (1.71%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.57%) GRC
9 1 (0.57%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 24 (13.71%) Active Directory
2 17 (9.71%) Hyper-V
2 17 (9.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (8.57%) Docker
4 9 (5.14%) Terminal Server
5 8 (4.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (4.00%) VMware NSX
7 4 (2.29%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.57%) Ansible
2 8 (4.57%) Proxmox
2 8 (4.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 4 (2.29%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.14%) QRadar
4 2 (1.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (21.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.86%) VMware
3 17 (9.71%) Splunk
4 10 (5.71%) OneLogin
5 9 (5.14%) Brocade
5 9 (5.14%) Nimble Storage
5 9 (5.14%) SolarWinds
5 9 (5.14%) Tanium
5 9 (5.14%) Veeam
6 8 (4.57%) Oracle
7 6 (3.43%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.86%) Cisco
8 5 (2.86%) Google
9 2 (1.14%) Adobe
9 2 (1.14%) AlienVault
9 2 (1.14%) ArcSight
9 2 (1.14%) Citrix
9 2 (1.14%) LogRhythm
9 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.57%) NetApp