SC Cleared Jobs in Wales

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 28 50
Rank change year-on-year +15 +22 +14
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 203 134 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 9.94% 8.04% 5.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.68% 21.10% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 44 40 25
10th Percentile £36,402 £26,193 £34,351
25th Percentile £40,463 £26,391 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £30,205 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +68.02% -47.01% +35.71%
75th Percentile £62,588 £49,038 £73,572
90th Percentile £70,250 £67,550 £77,650
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,700 £57,467
% change year-on-year -6.81% +7.37% +4.49%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

SC 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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 499 635 579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 24.44% 38.09% 29.98%
Number of salaries quoted 188 232 226
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,391 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £34,351
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,579 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% +11.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,388 £58,750
90th Percentile £69,890 £69,196 £69,375
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Wales

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Wales.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in Wales

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Wales

SC 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 SC Cleared within the Wales region over the 6 months to 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +10 193 £58,150 +108.08% 9
West Wales +4 5 £46,131 -0.17% 1
North Wales - 3 £33,500 -
SC Cleared
UK

SC 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 38 (18.72%) WebLogic
2 30 (14.78%) Oracle Service Bus
3 27 (13.30%) ArcGIS
3 27 (13.30%) GeoServer
4 14 (6.90%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.97%) Confluence
6 1 (0.49%) JBoss
6 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (15.76%) MS Visio
2 31 (15.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (14.78%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.97%) Sketch
5 3 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.49%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 33 (16.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 45 (22.17%) Azure
2 43 (21.18%) AWS
3 6 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (2.96%) Miro
4 5 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (2.46%) Slack
5 4 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (1.97%) Azure API Management
5 4 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (1.97%) Figma
5 4 (1.97%) Heroku
5 4 (1.97%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.99%) dbt
7 2 (0.99%) Serverless
8 1 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.81%) Firewall
2 18 (8.87%) DNS
3 16 (7.88%) TCP/IP
4 14 (6.90%) IP Telephony
4 14 (6.90%) Wireless
5 12 (5.91%) LAN
5 12 (5.91%) WAN
6 11 (5.42%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (5.42%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (2.96%) SSL
8 5 (2.46%) SAN
8 5 (2.46%) VPN
9 4 (1.97%) BGP
10 3 (1.48%) Software-Defined Radio
11 2 (0.99%) Network Security
12 1 (0.49%) FTP
12 1 (0.49%) Internet
12 1 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.49%) SMTP
12 1 (0.49%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.73%) Oracle Database
2 30 (14.78%) Oracle Database 10g
2 30 (14.78%) Oracle Database 11g
2 30 (14.78%) VLDB
3 27 (13.30%) GIS
3 27 (13.30%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (13.30%) QGIS
4 10 (4.93%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.43%) RDBMS
6 7 (3.45%) MySQL
7 5 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.99%) Big Data
9 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.99%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.99%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.45%) JIRA
2 5 (2.46%) Git
3 2 (0.99%) Selenium
4 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.49%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.49%) JMeter
4 1 (0.49%) MSTest
4 1 (0.49%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (0.49%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (22.66%) Analytical Skills
1 46 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (6.40%) Finance
3 13 (6.40%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.42%) Telecoms
5 6 (2.96%) Police
6 5 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.97%) Legal
8 2 (0.99%) Games
8 2 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Local Government
9 1 (0.49%) Marketing
9 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (39.41%) Senior
2 51 (25.12%) Analyst
3 35 (17.24%) Support Analyst
4 34 (16.75%) Applications Support
4 34 (16.75%) Applications Support Analyst
5 30 (14.78%) Oracle Analyst
5 30 (14.78%) Oracle Support Analyst
5 30 (14.78%) SQL Analyst
5 30 (14.78%) SQL Support Analyst
6 29 (14.29%) Software Engineer
7 25 (12.32%) Architect
8 22 (10.84%) Lead
9 18 (8.87%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (6.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 14 (6.90%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 14 (6.90%) Network Engineer
10 14 (6.90%) Senior Network Engineer
11 13 (6.40%) Developer
12 11 (5.42%) Consultant
12 11 (5.42%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.29%) React
2 27 (13.30%) Leaflet
2 27 (13.30%) OpenLayers
2 27 (13.30%) PostGIS
3 23 (11.33%) .NET
3 23 (11.33%) .NET Core
3 23 (11.33%) CSS
4 6 (2.96%) Node.js
4 6 (2.96%) Spring
5 5 (2.46%) Django
5 5 (2.46%) HTML
5 5 (2.46%) Java EE
5 5 (2.46%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.97%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.97%) J2EE
6 4 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.48%) Express.js
7 3 (1.48%) RESTful
8 2 (0.99%) Web Services
9 1 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.81%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.96%) Virtual Team
3 5 (2.46%) CMDB
4 4 (1.97%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.97%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.48%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.99%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) Blog
7 1 (0.49%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.49%) Life Science
7 1 (0.49%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.49%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (23.65%) Linux
2 40 (19.70%) Unix
3 30 (14.78%) Solaris
4 10 (4.93%) Windows
5 4 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.97%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (73.40%) Actionable Insight
2 74 (36.45%) Agile
3 55 (27.09%) Incident Management
4 45 (22.17%) DevOps
5 43 (21.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 38 (18.72%) Software Engineering
7 37 (18.23%) Capacity Planning
8 36 (17.73%) ITSM
9 33 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (15.27%) Performance Monitoring
11 30 (14.78%) Capacity Management
11 30 (14.78%) Performance Tuning
11 30 (14.78%) Release Management
12 28 (13.79%) Change Management
13 27 (13.30%) Web Development
14 23 (11.33%) Migration
15 18 (8.87%) ITIL
15 18 (8.87%) Project Management
16 17 (8.37%) Mentoring
17 16 (7.88%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 38 (18.72%) SQL
2 31 (15.27%) Python
3 30 (14.78%) JavaScript
3 30 (14.78%) PL/SQL
4 20 (9.85%) C#
5 8 (3.94%) Java
6 4 (1.97%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.99%) VBA
8 1 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 203 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 50 (24.63%) Degree
3 11 (5.42%) CCNA
3 11 (5.42%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.97%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.97%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.49%) PMP
6 1 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (18.23%) SLA
2 11 (5.42%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.46%) WCAG
4 3 (1.48%) COBIT
4 3 (1.48%) QA
5 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (14.78%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (1.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (14.78%) Data Guard
1 30 (14.78%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (2.96%) Terraform
3 5 (2.46%) Ansible
4 4 (1.97%) OpenSSO
4 4 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.48%) OpenView
6 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.49%) SCCM
6 1 (0.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (28.08%) Oracle
2 37 (18.23%) Remedy
3 33 (16.26%) Microsoft
4 30 (14.78%) Sun
5 27 (13.30%) ESRI
6 26 (12.81%) Cisco
7 14 (6.90%) Avaya
7 14 (6.90%) Mitel
8 12 (5.91%) CheckPoint
9 11 (5.42%) Fortinet
9 11 (5.42%) McAfee
9 11 (5.42%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.46%) VMware
11 4 (1.97%) Sparx
12 3 (1.48%) Blue Prism
12 3 (1.48%) BMC
12 3 (1.48%) HP
12 3 (1.48%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.48%) UiPath
13 2 (0.99%) IBM