Security Cleared Jobs 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -24 -1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 51 211 315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.09% 9.81% 18.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.53% 50.48% 43.75%
Number of salaries quoted 35 64 52
10th Percentile £39,140 £37,101 -
25th Percentile £51,000 £44,055 £26,391
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,400 £45,203
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +31.41% -18.74%
75th Percentile £77,129 £73,299 £62,396
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £69,740
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +9.09%

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 377 418 720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 22.86% 19.44% 41.24%
Number of salaries quoted 243 192 255
10th Percentile £37,733 £28,500 £26,391
25th Percentile £48,203 £35,876 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £46,816 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.71% +4.04% -
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,200 £59,375
90th Percentile £79,180 £73,299 £69,800
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% +9.09%

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

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Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Wales

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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 18 July 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 41 £65,000 +8.33% 51
Mid Wales +14 4 - - 1
West Wales +8 3 £37,733 -27.43% 8
Security Cleared
UK

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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 4 (7.84%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) Azure
2 10 (19.61%) Entra ID
3 6 (11.76%) Azure Stack
4 5 (9.80%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (9.80%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (9.80%) Power Platform
4 5 (9.80%) Serverless
5 4 (7.84%) Azure Functions
5 4 (7.84%) Power Automate
5 4 (7.84%) PowerApps
6 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.92%) AWS
7 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.92%) GitHub
7 2 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.96%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.96%) dbt
8 1 (1.96%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) BGP
1 3 (5.88%) Firewall
1 3 (5.88%) OSPF
1 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.92%) Network Security
2 2 (3.92%) VLAN
3 1 (1.96%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.96%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.96%) Internet
3 1 (1.96%) IPsec
3 1 (1.96%) VPN
3 1 (1.96%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.96%) WAN
3 1 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.88%) Redis
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.96%) GIS
3 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) JIRA
2 3 (5.88%) Git
3 2 (3.92%) JMeter
3 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (29.41%) Public Sector
1 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.57%) Finance
3 7 (13.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.92%) Back Office
6 2 (3.92%) Electronics
6 2 (3.92%) Marketing
6 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.96%) Environmental Health
7 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (19.61%) Senior
2 9 (17.65%) Design Engineer
2 9 (17.65%) FPGA Design Engineer
2 9 (17.65%) FPGA Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) Developer
4 7 (13.73%) Senior Developer
5 6 (11.76%) IT Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Lead
7 3 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Business Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Desktop Support
8 2 (3.92%) Desktop Technician
8 2 (3.92%) Lead Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Support Technician
8 2 (3.92%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) Django
1 3 (5.88%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (5.88%) OLE
2 2 (3.92%) FastAPI
2 2 (3.92%) Flask
2 2 (3.92%) GraphQL
2 2 (3.92%) Keycloak
2 2 (3.92%) OAuth
2 2 (3.92%) pytest
2 2 (3.92%) RESTful
2 2 (3.92%) SQLAlchemy
2 2 (3.92%) WebSockets
3 1 (1.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) e-Learning
1 9 (17.65%) FPGA
2 8 (15.69%) Data Centre
2 8 (15.69%) Onboarding
3 6 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.88%) Acoustics
5 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.92%) CUDA
6 1 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Windows
2 7 (13.73%) Linux
3 6 (11.76%) Rocky
3 6 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 6 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (5.88%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (17.65%) FPGA Design
3 9 (17.65%) Innovative Thinking
4 8 (15.69%) Containerisation
5 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (13.73%) DevOps
6 6 (11.76%) Agile
7 4 (7.84%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (7.84%) CI/CD
7 4 (7.84%) CRM
7 4 (7.84%) Microservices
7 4 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (7.84%) SOA
8 3 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (5.88%) Customer Experience
8 3 (5.88%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (5.88%) Systems Engineering
8 3 (5.88%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) Python
2 5 (9.80%) C#
3 4 (7.84%) SQL
3 4 (7.84%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.92%) C++
5 2 (3.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 45 (88.24%) SC Cleared
2 10 (19.61%) DV Cleared
3 8 (15.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (15.69%) Degree
4 6 (11.76%) Azure Certification
4 6 (11.76%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (3.92%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.96%) GCIH
6 1 (1.96%) GIAC
6 1 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.92%) NCSC
2 2 (3.92%) NIST
2 2 (3.92%) SLA
3 1 (1.96%) GRC
3 1 (1.96%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (15.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.92%) Grafana
2 2 (3.92%) Iperf
2 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.92%) Terraform
3 1 (1.96%) Argo
3 1 (1.96%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) Dell
3 3 (5.88%) Cisco
3 3 (5.88%) SAP
3 3 (5.88%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.92%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.92%) VMware
5 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.96%) ESRI
5 1 (1.96%) F5
5 1 (1.96%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) Juniper
5 1 (1.96%) LogRhythm
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.96%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.96%) Tufin