Security Cleared Contracts in Wales

Security Clearance
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 0
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 50 189 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 13.40% 31.14% 26.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 59.52% 77.78% 77.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 147 195
10th Percentile £451 £273 £293
25th Percentile £475 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +18.92%
75th Percentile £703 £625 £614
90th Percentile £725 £669 £684
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 12
10th Percentile £11.42 - £19.94
25th Percentile £15.66 £16.98 £20.62
Median hourly rate £20.35 £18.14 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -60.78% +111.96%
75th Percentile £86.45 £19.98 £47.40
90th Percentile £87.80 £37.44 -
UK median hourly rate £55.04 £60.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -8.27% +11.11% +35.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 84 243 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 22.52% 40.03% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 186 234
10th Percentile £212 £186 £277
25th Percentile £463 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% +17.78%
75th Percentile £644 £622 £610
90th Percentile £725 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £529 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.82% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 13
10th Percentile £11.02 - £19.98
25th Percentile £15.81 £16.98 £20.75
Median hourly rate £20.47 £18.14 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.84% -60.78% +118.52%
75th Percentile £85.00 £20.10 £47.40
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.38 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +23.47%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Wales

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
South Wales -6 45 £600 +6.67% 21
West Wales 0 5 £500 +3.90% 2
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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 12 (24.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Acrobat
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (2.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
1 2 (4.00%) Network Security
1 2 (4.00%) PBX
1 2 (4.00%) SAN
1 2 (4.00%) VoIP
2 1 (2.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.00%) LAN
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
2 1 (2.00%) WAN
2 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (2.00%) Metadata
1 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) CA Gen
General
1 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Local Government
2 11 (22.00%) Marketing
3 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.00%) Finance
4 4 (8.00%) Legal
5 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Senior
2 11 (22.00%) Bid Manager
3 9 (18.00%) Senior Bid Manager
3 9 (18.00%) Senior Manager
4 8 (16.00%) Consultant
5 6 (12.00%) Data Scientist
6 5 (10.00%) Architect
6 5 (10.00%) Developer
6 5 (10.00%) IAM Consultant
6 5 (10.00%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
6 5 (10.00%) Identity Management Consultant
7 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Storage Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Business Consultant
9 1 (2.00%) Network Administrator
9 1 (2.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) PySpark
2 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.00%) CSS
2 2 (4.00%) HTML
2 2 (4.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (2.00%) Node.js
3 1 (2.00%) React
3 1 (2.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.00%) FPGA
2 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Unix
2 6 (12.00%) Linux
3 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.00%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (26.00%) Value Proposition
3 12 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (24.00%) Project Management
4 11 (22.00%) PRINCE2
4 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (20.00%) Psychology
5 10 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 9 (18.00%) Identity Management
7 8 (16.00%) Critical Thinking
7 8 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (12.00%) Data Science
9 5 (10.00%) Agile
9 5 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (8.00%) Analytics
10 4 (8.00%) Bill of Materials
10 4 (8.00%) Visualisation
10 4 (8.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
11 3 (6.00%) Budget Management
11 3 (6.00%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) Python
2 4 (8.00%) Java
3 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.00%) R
3 2 (4.00%) Ruby
3 2 (4.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (86.00%) SC Cleared
2 13 (26.00%) Degree
3 11 (22.00%) PMI Certification
3 11 (22.00%) PMP
4 5 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.00%) PhD
6 1 (2.00%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.00%) Adobe
3 3 (6.00%) Cisco
4 2 (4.00%) Brocade
4 2 (4.00%) CA
4 2 (4.00%) Dell
4 2 (4.00%) NetApp
4 2 (4.00%) Veritas
5 1 (2.00%) Altera
5 1 (2.00%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) Microsemi
5 1 (2.00%) RedGate
5 1 (2.00%) Xilinx