Cybersecurity Contracts in Cardiff

Cybersecurity
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 31 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +11
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 6 4 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.75% 1.89% 6.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 2.48% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 17
10th Percentile £416 £180 £286
25th Percentile £507 £237 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £363 £503
Median % change year-on-year +63.59% -27.86% -2.90%
75th Percentile £600 £416 £588
90th Percentile £625 £429 £613
South Wales median daily rate £488 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -18.75% +26.32% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
South Wales median hourly rate £45.00 £87.80 £13.00
% change year-on-year -48.75% +575.38% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Cardiff

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Cardiff

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Cardiff

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (16.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cyberattack
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 3 (50.00%) Offensive Security
1 3 (50.00%) Red Team
1 3 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Behavioural Change
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CREST Certified
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Scheme
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CSSLP
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Argo
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Sophos