Cyber Defence Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Cyber Defence
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in contract job vacancies in Cardiff. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Defence 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.80% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South Wales median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Cardiff

Cyber Defence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 95 85 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 38.15% 36.64% 35.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 59 64
10th Percentile £195 £162 £183
25th Percentile £280 £215 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £336 £425 £381
Median % change year-on-year -21.06% +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £438 £564 £541
90th Percentile £525 £642 £677
South Wales median daily rate £335 £425 £363
% change year-on-year -21.18% +17.16% -19.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile - £22.20 -
25th Percentile - £24.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £13.08 £25.60 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.91% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £15.37 £26.75 £30.50
90th Percentile £16.74 £27.50 £37.70
South Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £46.75
% change year-on-year -19.92% -45.24% +175.00%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Defence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Cyber Defence job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Cyber Defence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) ISMS
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISMP
1 2 (100.00%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft