Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Cyber Essentials
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.42% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £575 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cardiff

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 48 48 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 20.00% 19.35% 15.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 38 24
10th Percentile £199 £161 £166
25th Percentile £275 £211 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £456 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.97% -6.41% -9.72%
75th Percentile £503 £544 £570
90th Percentile £529 £550 £650
South Wales median daily rate £413 £488 £463
% change year-on-year -15.38% +5.41% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £21.91 -
25th Percentile - £22.53 £37.50
Median hourly rate £13.08 £24.80 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.26% -38.00% +194.93%
75th Percentile - £26.28 £42.50
90th Percentile - £26.41 -
South Wales median hourly rate £13.08 £25.36 £23.92
% change year-on-year -48.42% +6.04% +18.16%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Cyber Essentials.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISMS
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST