Information Security Contracts in Wales

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 49 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -22
Contract jobs citing Information Security 2 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.50% 2.21% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 2.56% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 18
10th Percentile £197 £273 £355
25th Percentile £279 £273 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £425 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -19.81% -3.64%
75th Percentile £554 £613 £731
90th Percentile £636 £614 £783
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Information Security is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 318 546 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.10% 86.12% 83.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 421 615
10th Percentile £173 £180 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £573 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 29 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.00 £14.31
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.14 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.04% -27.44% +29.87%
75th Percentile £51.75 £25.00 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £49.00 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Wales

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Wales

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Wales over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Wales

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in Wales

Information Security
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 Information Security within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +4 2 £418 -1.76% 7
Information Security
UK

Information Security
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) AppScan
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Graylog
1 1 (50.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (50.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Veracode