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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 28 52
Rank change year-on-year +15 +24 +15
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 207 129 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 10.13% 7.82% 5.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.24% 20.71% 17.50%
Number of salaries quoted 44 41 25
10th Percentile £36,402 - £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% +39.02%
75th Percentile £62,588 £47,250 £73,572
90th Percentile £70,250 £57,250 £77,650
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,063 £57,267
% change year-on-year -4.27% +4.88% +4.12%

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 502 623 577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 24.56% 37.78% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 188 230 225
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,391 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £34,351
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +11.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £69,890 £69,336 £69,750
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +7.73% -

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 10 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 10 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 +10 197 £58,150 +108.08% 7
West Wales +8 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 39 (18.84%) WebLogic
2 30 (14.49%) Oracle Service Bus
3 27 (13.04%) ArcGIS
3 27 (13.04%) GeoServer
4 14 (6.76%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.93%) Confluence
6 1 (0.48%) JBoss
6 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (15.46%) MS Visio
2 31 (14.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (14.49%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.93%) Sketch
5 3 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.48%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 33 (15.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 45 (21.74%) Azure
2 43 (20.77%) AWS
3 6 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (2.90%) Miro
4 5 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (2.42%) Slack
5 4 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (1.93%) Azure API Management
5 4 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (1.93%) Figma
5 4 (1.93%) Heroku
5 4 (1.93%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.97%) dbt
7 2 (0.97%) Serverless
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.48%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.04%) Firewall
2 18 (8.70%) DNS
3 17 (8.21%) TCP/IP
4 14 (6.76%) IP Telephony
4 14 (6.76%) Wireless
5 13 (6.28%) LAN
5 13 (6.28%) WAN
6 11 (5.31%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (5.31%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (3.38%) VPN
8 6 (2.90%) SSL
9 5 (2.42%) SAN
10 4 (1.93%) BGP
10 4 (1.93%) Network Security
11 3 (1.45%) Software-Defined Radio
12 2 (0.97%) FTP
12 2 (0.97%) HTTP
12 2 (0.97%) Internet
12 2 (0.97%) SMTP
12 2 (0.97%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.39%) Oracle Database
2 30 (14.49%) Oracle Database 10g
2 30 (14.49%) Oracle Database 11g
2 30 (14.49%) VLDB
3 27 (13.04%) GIS
3 27 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (13.04%) QGIS
4 10 (4.83%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.35%) RDBMS
6 7 (3.38%) MySQL
7 5 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.97%) Big Data
8 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.97%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.97%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.38%) JIRA
2 5 (2.42%) Git
3 2 (0.97%) Selenium
4 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.48%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.48%) JMeter
4 1 (0.48%) MSTest
4 1 (0.48%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (0.48%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
1 48 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (6.28%) Finance
3 13 (6.28%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.31%) Telecoms
5 6 (2.90%) Police
6 5 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.93%) Legal
8 3 (1.45%) Games
9 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Local Government
10 1 (0.48%) Marketing
10 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (39.13%) Senior
2 53 (25.60%) Analyst
3 36 (17.39%) Support Analyst
4 35 (16.91%) Applications Support
4 35 (16.91%) Applications Support Analyst
5 30 (14.49%) Oracle Analyst
5 30 (14.49%) Oracle Support Analyst
5 30 (14.49%) SQL Analyst
5 30 (14.49%) SQL Support Analyst
6 29 (14.01%) Software Engineer
7 26 (12.56%) Architect
8 22 (10.63%) Lead
9 18 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (6.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 14 (6.76%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 14 (6.76%) Network Engineer
10 14 (6.76%) Senior Network Engineer
11 13 (6.28%) Developer
12 12 (5.80%) Consultant
12 12 (5.80%) Project Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.01%) React
2 27 (13.04%) Leaflet
2 27 (13.04%) OpenLayers
2 27 (13.04%) PostGIS
3 23 (11.11%) .NET
3 23 (11.11%) .NET Core
3 23 (11.11%) CSS
4 7 (3.38%) Spring
5 6 (2.90%) Java EE
5 6 (2.90%) Node.js
6 5 (2.42%) Django
6 5 (2.42%) HTML
6 5 (2.42%) J2EE
6 5 (2.42%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.93%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.45%) Express.js
8 3 (1.45%) RESTful
9 2 (0.97%) LDAP
9 2 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.04%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.90%) Virtual Team
3 5 (2.42%) CMDB
4 4 (1.93%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.93%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.45%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.97%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.48%) Blog
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.48%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.48%) Life Science
7 1 (0.48%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.48%) PKI
7 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (23.19%) Linux
2 41 (19.81%) Unix
3 30 (14.49%) Solaris
4 10 (4.83%) Windows
5 4 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.93%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.48%) VMS
6 1 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (73.91%) Actionable Insight
2 74 (35.75%) Agile
3 56 (27.05%) Incident Management
4 45 (21.74%) DevOps
5 43 (20.77%) Artificial Intelligence
6 38 (18.36%) Software Engineering
7 37 (17.87%) Capacity Planning
8 36 (17.39%) ITSM
8 36 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (14.98%) Performance Monitoring
10 30 (14.49%) Capacity Management
10 30 (14.49%) Performance Tuning
10 30 (14.49%) Release Management
11 28 (13.53%) Change Management
12 27 (13.04%) Web Development
13 23 (11.11%) Migration
14 20 (9.66%) ITIL
15 18 (8.70%) Project Management
16 17 (8.21%) Mentoring
17 16 (7.73%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 38 (18.36%) SQL
2 31 (14.98%) Python
3 30 (14.49%) JavaScript
3 30 (14.49%) PL/SQL
4 20 (9.66%) C#
5 9 (4.35%) Java
6 5 (2.42%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.97%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.97%) VBA
8 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 207 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 50 (24.15%) Degree
3 12 (5.80%) CCNA
3 12 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.93%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.93%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.48%) CCNP
6 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.48%) PMP
6 1 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.36%) SLA
2 11 (5.31%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.42%) WCAG
4 3 (1.45%) COBIT
4 3 (1.45%) QA
5 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (14.49%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (1.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (14.49%) Data Guard
1 30 (14.49%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (2.90%) Terraform
3 5 (2.42%) Ansible
3 5 (2.42%) OpenSSO
3 5 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.45%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.45%) OpenView
5 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.48%) SCCM
5 1 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 59 (28.50%) Oracle
2 38 (18.36%) Remedy
3 33 (15.94%) Microsoft
4 30 (14.49%) Sun
5 28 (13.53%) Cisco
6 27 (13.04%) ESRI
7 14 (6.76%) Avaya
7 14 (6.76%) CheckPoint
7 14 (6.76%) Mitel
8 12 (5.80%) McAfee
8 12 (5.80%) Palo Alto
9 11 (5.31%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.42%) VMware
11 4 (1.93%) Sparx
12 3 (1.45%) Blue Prism
12 3 (1.45%) BMC
12 3 (1.45%) HP
12 3 (1.45%) Juniper
12 3 (1.45%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.45%) UiPath