Data Security Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Data Security
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Data Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Security 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.37% 0.60% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £305 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £160 -
Median % change year-on-year +93.75% - -
75th Percentile £315 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £310 £160 -
% change year-on-year +93.75% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Data Security 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 210 150 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 78.36% 90.36% 76.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 123 152
10th Percentile £250 £189 £143
25th Percentile £303 £259 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £444
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -4.23% -1.39%
75th Percentile £510 £545 £563
90th Percentile £650 £625 £644
South Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 3
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile - £21.25 £14.88
Median hourly rate £12.21 £24.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.65% +34.72% +22.26%
75th Percentile £20.81 £34.06 £35.88
90th Percentile £21.00 £45.88 £46.60
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £22.25 £22.68
% change year-on-year -4.49% -1.90% +20.54%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Data Security job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Data Security
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Data Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Data Security

Data Security
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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft