Security Monitoring Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Security Monitoring
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Monitoring 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.30% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South Wales median daily rate - - £245
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Security Monitoring 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 239 182 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 72.87% 90.10% 75.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 140 115
10th Percentile £300 £225 £140
25th Percentile £336 £303 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £405 £425
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -4.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £609 £501 £550
90th Percentile £768 £675 £630
South Wales median daily rate £500 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 10
10th Percentile £12.21 £12.21 -
25th Percentile £12.71 - £15.48
Median hourly rate £43.96 £13.08 £20.08
Median % change year-on-year +236.09% -34.86% -17.20%
75th Percentile - £17.00 £25.60
90th Percentile - £22.04 £25.79
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £14.61 £25.36
% change year-on-year +45.45% -42.39% -2.46%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Security Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Security Monitoring
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk