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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 +16
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 190 323 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 9.85% 18.89% 8.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.08% 45.88% 28.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61 55 35
10th Percentile £37,101 - £34,375
25th Percentile £49,750 £26,391 £45,446
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,696 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +31.30% -18.76% +40.40%
75th Percentile £73,299 £65,509 £73,036
90th Percentile £90,000 £69,608 £79,100
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 372 704 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 19.28% 41.17% 30.02%
Number of salaries quoted 166 264 263
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,391 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,688 £33,750 £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +24.60%
75th Percentile £63,438 £57,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £79,225 £69,196 £71,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -3 174 £60,000 +63.08% 20
West Wales +16 12 £51,997 +12.52% 3
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 28 (14.74%) WebLogic
2 24 (12.63%) Oracle Service Bus
3 17 (8.95%) ArcGIS
3 17 (8.95%) GeoServer
4 9 (4.74%) Skype for Business
5 7 (3.68%) Confluence
6 2 (1.05%) Apache
6 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.53%) Appian
7 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (13.68%) MS Visio
2 24 (12.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (12.63%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.11%) Sketch
4 3 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 27 (14.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 50 (26.32%) AWS
2 40 (21.05%) Azure
3 9 (4.74%) dbt
4 8 (4.21%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.16%) Miro
6 5 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (2.63%) Serverless
6 5 (2.63%) Slack
7 4 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (2.11%) Azure API Management
7 4 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (2.11%) Figma
7 4 (2.11%) Heroku
7 4 (2.11%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.11%) SaaS
8 3 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.58%) GitHub
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.05%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.42%) Firewall
2 13 (6.84%) DNS
3 11 (5.79%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.74%) IP Telephony
4 9 (4.74%) Wireless
5 7 (3.68%) Cisco ASA
5 7 (3.68%) Cisco IOS
5 7 (3.68%) LAN
5 7 (3.68%) WAN
6 6 (3.16%) SSL
7 5 (2.63%) SAN
8 4 (2.11%) BGP
9 3 (1.58%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.79%) Oracle Database
2 24 (12.63%) Oracle Database 10g
2 24 (12.63%) Oracle Database 11g
2 24 (12.63%) VLDB
3 19 (10.00%) GIS
4 17 (8.95%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (8.95%) QGIS
5 12 (6.32%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.74%) RDBMS
7 7 (3.68%) MySQL
8 5 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.05%) Big Data
9 2 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.53%) Adabas
10 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (5.79%) JIRA
2 8 (4.21%) GitLab
3 4 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.53%) JMeter
4 1 (0.53%) Selenium
4 1 (0.53%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.53%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.53%) Visual LANSA
General
1 39 (20.53%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 31 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.89%) Finance
4 15 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.68%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.63%) Police
7 4 (2.11%) Games
8 3 (1.58%) Banking
8 3 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Retail
10 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.53%) Legal
10 1 (0.53%) Local Government
10 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 54 (28.42%) Senior
2 38 (20.00%) Analyst
3 32 (16.84%) Lead
4 28 (14.74%) Architect
5 25 (13.16%) Support Analyst
6 24 (12.63%) Applications Support
6 24 (12.63%) Applications Support Analyst
6 24 (12.63%) Oracle Analyst
6 24 (12.63%) Oracle Support Analyst
6 24 (12.63%) SQL Analyst
6 24 (12.63%) SQL Support Analyst
7 21 (11.05%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.32%) Technical Leader
9 11 (5.79%) Developer
10 9 (4.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) Lead Architect
10 9 (4.74%) Network Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) Senior Network Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.16%) React
2 17 (8.95%) .NET
2 17 (8.95%) .NET Core
2 17 (8.95%) CSS
2 17 (8.95%) Leaflet
2 17 (8.95%) OpenLayers
2 17 (8.95%) PostGIS
3 9 (4.74%) Node.js
4 7 (3.68%) Django
4 7 (3.68%) HTML
4 7 (3.68%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.58%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.58%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (1.05%) Kafka
8 1 (0.53%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.53%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.95%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.68%) Private Cloud
3 6 (3.16%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.63%) CMDB
5 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.11%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.58%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.58%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.05%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (1.05%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.53%) AS400
8 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.53%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (20.53%) Linux
2 29 (15.26%) Unix
3 24 (12.63%) Solaris
4 6 (3.16%) Windows
5 4 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.05%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (59.47%) Actionable Insight
2 78 (41.05%) Agile
3 40 (21.05%) Incident Management
4 35 (18.42%) Artificial Intelligence
5 31 (16.32%) Capacity Planning
5 31 (16.32%) DevOps
5 31 (16.32%) Software Engineering
6 30 (15.79%) ITSM
7 25 (13.16%) Performance Monitoring
8 24 (12.63%) Capacity Management
8 24 (12.63%) Performance Tuning
8 24 (12.63%) Release Management
9 23 (12.11%) Change Management
9 23 (12.11%) Mentoring
10 20 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (10.00%) Migration
12 18 (9.47%) Project Management
12 18 (9.47%) Scrum
13 17 (8.95%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.89%) SQL
2 31 (16.32%) Python
3 26 (13.68%) JavaScript
4 24 (12.63%) PL/SQL
5 20 (10.53%) C#
6 13 (6.84%) Java
7 8 (4.21%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.58%) Ruby
9 2 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.05%) VBA
10 1 (0.53%) Ada
10 1 (0.53%) JCL
10 1 (0.53%) Natural
10 1 (0.53%) REXX
Qualifications
1 171 (90.00%) SC Cleared
2 43 (22.63%) Degree
3 7 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (3.68%) CCNA
3 7 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.63%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.53%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.53%) CISSP
6 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.53%) GIAC
6 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.53%) PMP
6 1 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.63%) SLA
2 11 (5.79%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.16%) QA
4 5 (2.63%) WCAG
5 3 (1.58%) COBIT
6 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (12.63%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (2.11%) Docker
3 3 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (12.63%) Data Guard
1 24 (12.63%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (4.21%) Terraform
3 7 (3.68%) Ansible
4 5 (2.63%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.58%) OpenView
6 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (23.16%) Oracle
2 27 (14.21%) Remedy
3 24 (12.63%) Microsoft
3 24 (12.63%) Sun
4 17 (8.95%) ESRI
5 16 (8.42%) Cisco
6 9 (4.74%) Avaya
6 9 (4.74%) Mitel
7 7 (3.68%) CheckPoint
7 7 (3.68%) Fortinet
7 7 (3.68%) McAfee
7 7 (3.68%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.63%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.63%) Sparx
8 5 (2.63%) VMware
9 3 (1.58%) Blue Prism
9 3 (1.58%) BMC
9 3 (1.58%) HP
9 3 (1.58%) IBM
9 3 (1.58%) UiPath