Cyber Threat Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Cyber Threats
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in Cardiff. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.54% - 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.39% - 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £658 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £800 - -

All Generic Skills
Cardiff

Cyber Threat 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 114 80 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 35.19% 39.02% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 56 62
10th Percentile £300 £226 £137
25th Percentile £306 £282 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £375 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -24.24% +26.92%
75th Percentile £547 £476 £550
90th Percentile £765 £519 £616
South Wales median daily rate £413 £375 £493
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.86% +31.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 7
10th Percentile - - £22.10
25th Percentile - - £24.05
Median hourly rate £43.96 £13.08 £25.60
Median % change year-on-year +236.09% -48.91% +28.00%
75th Percentile - - £26.05
90th Percentile £72.50 - £26.90
South Wales median hourly rate £43.96 £20.50 £25.60
% change year-on-year +114.44% -19.92% -36.00%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Cyber Threat job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Threat in Cardiff over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Threat in Cardiff

Cyber Threat
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 1 (20.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (80.00%) Business Continuity Management
2 4 (80.00%) Business Impact Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 4 (80.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Impact Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (80.00%) Threat Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO 22301
1 4 (80.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker