Senior Security Specialist Contracts in Cardiff

Senior Security Specialist
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Senior Security Specialist daily rate in Cardiff is £238, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.53% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 - -
South Wales median daily rate £238 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cardiff. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title 182 210 203
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.81% 93.75% 96.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 161 151
10th Percentile £213 £130 £183
25th Percentile £300 £177 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £558
90th Percentile £663 £614 £638
South Wales median daily rate £388 £400 £475
% change year-on-year -3.13% -15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 10
10th Percentile £12.21 £11.90 £16.00
25th Percentile - £15.48 £17.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% -17.47% +18.42%
75th Percentile £18.13 £25.60 £25.75
90th Percentile £24.20 - £28.10
South Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £25.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% +13.78% +18.70%

Senior Security Specialist Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 17 August 2025, Senior Security Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cardiff region featuring Senior Security Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Postgraduate
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SSCP
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Welsh Language
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) CSOC

Senior Security Specialist Skill Set
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Welsh Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CSOC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Postgraduate
1 1 (100.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
6 Senior Security Specialist jobs Nationwide