Security Cleared Contracts in South Wales

Security Clearance
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 82 118 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 22.04% 29.80% 32.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 60.74% 74.21% 81.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 96 172
10th Percentile £311 £406 £296
25th Percentile - £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +5.26% +12.20%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £669 £675
Wales median daily rate £500 £588 £560
% change year-on-year -14.89% +4.91% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 5
10th Percentile £15.20 £13.26 £13.43
25th Percentile £20.12 £23.75 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.18 £35.50 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year -29.07% +78.30% -28.20%
75th Percentile £48.75 £52.06 £20.50
90th Percentile £52.25 £55.25 £23.20
Wales median hourly rate £25.18 £35.50 £19.91
% change year-on-year -29.07% +78.30% -28.20%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in South Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 135 159 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 36.29% 40.15% 39.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 132 196
10th Percentile £129 £183 £293
25th Percentile £190 £391 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -1.09% +10.55%
75th Percentile £569 £638 £616
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
Wales median daily rate £425 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -15.00% -5.66% +6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 7
10th Percentile £15.20 £13.33 £14.03
25th Percentile £20.12 £26.25 £17.36
Median hourly rate £25.18 £37.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.85% +87.50% -13.72%
75th Percentile £48.75 £53.88 £24.63
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.25 £25.00
Wales median hourly rate £25.27 £35.50 £19.96
% change year-on-year -28.82% +77.90% +3.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in South Wales

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Hourly Rate Histogram in South Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newport 0 40 £400 -33.33% 8
Cardiff -3 19 £600 +41.18% 1
Gwent - 19 - - 6
Monmouthshire - 3 £700 -
Bridgend -4 1 £503 -18.29%
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Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.10%) Azure
2 3 (3.66%) Azure Stack
2 3 (3.66%) dbt
2 3 (3.66%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (2.44%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (2.44%) AWS
3 2 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (2.44%) Azure App Service
3 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.44%) GCP
3 2 (2.44%) Serverless
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.22%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.98%) SAN
2 1 (1.22%) Firewall
2 1 (1.22%) LAN
2 1 (1.22%) Network Security
2 1 (1.22%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.22%) WAN
2 1 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) Adabas
1 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (8.54%) Git
2 2 (2.44%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.22%) RStudio
3 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.41%) Finance
3 11 (13.41%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.98%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (8.54%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (6.10%) Military
6 5 (6.10%) Social Science
7 4 (4.88%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (14.63%) Analyst
2 9 (10.98%) Delivery Manager
2 9 (10.98%) Service Delivery Manager
2 9 (10.98%) Service Manager
3 8 (9.76%) Consultant
3 8 (9.76%) Data Scientist
4 6 (7.32%) Administrator
4 6 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (7.32%) NOC Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) Lead
6 4 (4.88%) Architect
6 4 (4.88%) Database Consultant
6 4 (4.88%) Programme Planner
7 3 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) IT Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Statistical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.63%) PySpark
2 2 (2.44%) Kafka
2 2 (2.44%) YAML
3 1 (1.22%) .NET
3 1 (1.22%) CSS
3 1 (1.22%) HTML
3 1 (1.22%) Pandas
3 1 (1.22%) SPFx
3 1 (1.22%) WF
3 1 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.88%) Algorithms
2 3 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.22%) FPGA
4 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.22%) Verilog
4 1 (1.22%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.20%) Windows
2 2 (2.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.17%) Statistics
2 18 (21.95%) Decision-Making
3 15 (18.29%) Service Delivery
4 12 (14.63%) Data Science
5 10 (12.20%) Mathematics
5 10 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (10.98%) Change Management
6 9 (10.98%) Customer Requirements
6 9 (10.98%) Data Analysis
6 9 (10.98%) ITIL
7 8 (9.76%) Open Source
7 8 (9.76%) Service Management
8 7 (8.54%) Statistical Modelling
9 6 (7.32%) Agile
9 6 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (7.32%) Physics
10 5 (6.10%) Data Architecture
10 5 (6.10%) Data Modelling
10 5 (6.10%) Quantitative Analysis
10 5 (6.10%) Resource Levelling
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.61%) Python
2 6 (7.32%) R
3 3 (3.66%) SQL
4 2 (2.44%) Natural
4 2 (2.44%) Perl
4 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.22%) Bash
5 1 (1.22%) C#
5 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 63 (76.83%) SC Cleared
2 20 (24.39%) Degree
3 17 (20.73%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (7.32%) Master's Degree
4 6 (7.32%) PhD
5 5 (6.10%) CCNA
6 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.66%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.22%) CCIE
7 1 (1.22%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.66%) QA
3 2 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.88%) Terraform
2 2 (2.44%) Ansible
2 2 (2.44%) Grafana
2 2 (2.44%) Kibana
2 2 (2.44%) Matomo
2 2 (2.44%) Packer
2 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (7.32%) Cisco
2 2 (2.44%) Google
2 2 (2.44%) Software AG
3 1 (1.22%) Blue Prism