ISMS Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Information Security Management System (ISMS)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring ISMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISMS 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.20% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £575 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

ISMS 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 210 183 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 84.34% 78.88% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 131 173
10th Percentile £213 £162 £176
25th Percentile £290 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £492 £550 £538
90th Percentile £613 £650 £625
South Wales median daily rate £408 £419 £450
% change year-on-year -2.69% -6.94% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £13.08 £21.62 £17.60
25th Percentile £14.04 £23.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £16.44 £25.60 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.80% -1.54% +52.81%
75th Percentile £20.63 £27.50 £34.50
90th Percentile £23.74 £38.00 £47.00
South Wales median hourly rate £18.69 £25.18 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.79% -3.15% +30.59%

ISMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

ISMS job vacancy trend in Cardiff

ISMS
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing ISMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing ISMS

ISMS
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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISMP
1 2 (66.67%) GSEC
2 1 (33.33%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
25 ISMS jobs Nationwide