Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Security Posture
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Cardiff. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 34 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.92% 0.48% 1.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.63% 1.23% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +40.00%
75th Percentile £575 - £750
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £538 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -23.21% - +40.00%

All Generic Skills
Cardiff

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 114 81 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 35.08% 38.94% 39.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 57 62
10th Percentile £300 £226 £137
25th Percentile £306 £283 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £375 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -24.24% +32.00%
75th Percentile £547 £475 £550
90th Percentile £765 £518 £616
South Wales median daily rate £413 £375 £493
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.86% +31.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 7
10th Percentile - - £22.10
25th Percentile - - £24.05
Median hourly rate £43.96 £13.08 £25.60
Median % change year-on-year +236.09% -48.91% +28.00%
75th Percentile - - £26.05
90th Percentile £72.50 - £26.90
South Wales median hourly rate £43.96 £20.50 £25.60
% change year-on-year +114.44% -19.92% -36.00%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Security Posture
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%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Military
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Compliance Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Security Assurance Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Compliance Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) GRC
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft