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 10 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 33 31
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 -14
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 68 47 95
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 6.34% 6.02% 7.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.94% 19.26% 26.69%
Number of salaries quoted 40 40 44
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,188 £47,000 £36,041
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £46,131
Median % change year-on-year - +40.90% +2.51%
75th Percentile £78,790 - £61,445
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,144 £73,003
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.81% +7.83% -

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 284 244 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 26.49% 31.24% 26.85%
Number of salaries quoted 95 108 198
10th Percentile £29,600 £37,200 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,553 £42,500 £32,827
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £57,215 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% +27.14% +3.07%
75th Percentile £74,983 £66,469 £55,997
90th Percentile £85,000 £71,299 £69,800
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +9 58 £65,000 - 20
West Wales +3 9 £74,600 +51.92% 5
Dyfed - 1 - -
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 14 (20.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (32.35%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (30.88%) Azure
3 6 (8.82%) AWS
4 4 (5.88%) dbt
4 4 (5.88%) GCP
4 4 (5.88%) Google Workspace
4 4 (5.88%) SurveyMonkey
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.41%) PaaS
5 3 (4.41%) Pulumi
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.94%) Sentry
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.47%) Datadog
7 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.59%) DHCP
1 14 (20.59%) DNS
2 8 (11.76%) Firewall
3 7 (10.29%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.88%) Bluetooth
4 4 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (5.88%) Modbus
4 4 (5.88%) Network Security
4 4 (5.88%) VLAN
4 4 (5.88%) Wireshark
4 4 (5.88%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Burp Suite
1 4 (5.88%) Metasploit
2 2 (2.94%) Selenium
2 2 (2.94%) SpecFlow
2 2 (2.94%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.47%) JMeter
3 1 (1.47%) Locust
General
1 24 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.35%) Finance
4 5 (7.35%) Law
5 4 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 4 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.41%) Back Office
7 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.47%) Legal
8 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (20.59%) Systems Engineer
2 12 (17.65%) Architect
3 11 (16.18%) Support Engineer
4 9 (13.24%) Analyst
4 9 (13.24%) IT Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) IT Support
5 8 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.88%) Lead
7 4 (5.88%) Senior
7 4 (5.88%) Site Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Chief Architect
8 3 (4.41%) Desktop Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Desktop Support
8 3 (4.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Product Manager
9 2 (2.94%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) Django
2 3 (4.41%) Web Services
3 2 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (1.47%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.47%) Node.js
4 1 (1.47%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (11.76%) Operational Technology
3 6 (8.82%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (7.35%) Security Posture
5 4 (5.88%) CAN bus
5 4 (5.88%) IoT
5 4 (5.88%) SCADA
6 2 (2.94%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.47%) CMDB
7 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.47%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.47%) PMI
7 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.35%) Linux
1 22 (32.35%) Windows
2 15 (22.06%) Windows Server
3 14 (20.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (5.88%) Android
4 4 (5.88%) Kali Linux
4 4 (5.88%) Mac OS
4 4 (5.88%) Ubuntu
5 3 (4.41%) Unix
5 3 (4.41%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.47%) Rocky
6 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.35%) Migration
2 21 (30.88%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (27.94%) Kalman Filter
4 18 (26.47%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 18 (26.47%) Web Filtering
5 17 (25.00%) Customer Experience
5 17 (25.00%) Customer Service
6 15 (22.06%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (22.06%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 14 (20.59%) Email Filtering
8 9 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (13.24%) User Experience
9 8 (11.76%) ITIL
9 8 (11.76%) Risk Management
10 7 (10.29%) Agile
10 7 (10.29%) AI
10 7 (10.29%) Prototyping
10 7 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (8.82%) Incident Response
11 6 (8.82%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) Python
2 5 (7.35%) Java
3 4 (5.88%) C++
3 4 (5.88%) R
3 4 (5.88%) Rust
4 2 (2.94%) SQL
5 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 57 (83.82%) SC Cleared
2 8 (11.76%) Degree
3 5 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (2.94%) CISSP
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.47%) IIBA
7 1 (1.47%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.59%) Cyber Essentials
1 14 (20.59%) PCI DSS
2 6 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.82%) NIST
3 4 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (4.41%) SLA
5 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.47%) GDPR
5 1 (1.47%) GRC
5 1 (1.47%) QA
5 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (27.94%) Active Directory
1 19 (27.94%) Hyper-V
2 14 (20.59%) Terminal Server
3 4 (5.88%) Docker
3 4 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) Nessus
1 4 (5.88%) Nmap
1 4 (5.88%) Proxmox
1 4 (5.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 4 (5.88%) Terraform
2 2 (2.94%) AWS Copilot
2 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.47%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (27.94%) Splunk
3 18 (26.47%) VMware
4 14 (20.59%) Brocade
4 14 (20.59%) Nimble Storage
4 14 (20.59%) SolarWinds
4 14 (20.59%) Tanium
4 14 (20.59%) Veeam
5 7 (10.29%) Cisco
5 7 (10.29%) Google
6 4 (5.88%) Qualtrics
6 4 (5.88%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.47%) AlienVault
7 1 (1.47%) BMC
7 1 (1.47%) Dell
7 1 (1.47%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.47%) Remedy
7 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow