GWAPT Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for GWAPT qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GWAPT 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.31% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South Wales median daily rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cardiff

GWAPT falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 68 60 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 21.25% 28.17% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 40 36
10th Percentile £331 £230 £121
25th Percentile £425 £305 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £331 £353
Median % change year-on-year +69.10% -6.05% -17.06%
75th Percentile £788 £482 £556
90th Percentile £800 £676 £600
South Wales median daily rate £550 £331 £400
% change year-on-year +66.08% -17.21% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.30
Median hourly rate £43.96 £13.08 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year +236.09% -39.42% -46.03%
75th Percentile - - £22.89
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £43.96 £19.19 £25.36
% change year-on-year +129.08% -24.33% -24.30%

GWAPT
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Testing Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode