Information Security Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Information Security (InfoSec)
South Wales > Cardiff

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 30 31
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Information Security 2 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.06% 2.73% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 3.64% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £546 £289 £363
25th Percentile £559 £509 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £664 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +39.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile £659 £705 £525
90th Percentile £669 £732 £668
South Wales median daily rate £613 £664 £275
% change year-on-year -7.72% +141.36% -57.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Information 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 168 165 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.36% 75.00% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 113 154
10th Percentile £225 £140 £193
25th Percentile £300 £188 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -5.71%
75th Percentile £499 £550 £561
90th Percentile £653 £638 £638
South Wales median daily rate £393 £400 £475
% change year-on-year -1.88% -15.79% -7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 7
10th Percentile £12.21 - £19.55
25th Percentile £12.86 £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £20.08 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% -19.68% +31.58%
75th Percentile £14.06 £25.60 £26.25
90th Percentile £20.37 £25.79 £32.90
South Wales median hourly rate £14.81 £25.36 £25.00
% change year-on-year -41.62% +1.44% +25.57%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Cardiff

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Information Security
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Case
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) ISMS
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST