Information Security Contracts in Cardiff

Information Security (InfoSec)
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 35 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing Information Security 2 9 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.95% 2.69% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 3.03% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 16
10th Percentile £197 £403 £419
25th Percentile £279 £463 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £575 £505
Median % change year-on-year -27.39% +13.86% +12.22%
75th Percentile £554 £613 £719
90th Percentile £636 £620 £756
South Wales median daily rate £418 £325 £563
% change year-on-year +28.46% -42.22% +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Information Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 159 297 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 75.71% 88.66% 81.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 233 323
10th Percentile £188 £201 £263
25th Percentile £380 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -0.54% +15.63%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £550
90th Percentile £638 £630 £638
South Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.45
25th Percentile £14.88 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.45 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.46% -12.29% +15.38%
75th Percentile £35.88 £23.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.60 £24.50 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £21.63
% change year-on-year +25.03% -16.12% +5.36%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Cardiff

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Cardiff over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Cardiff

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%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) AppScan
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Graylog
1 1 (50.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (50.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Veracode