Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Cyber Essentials
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.30% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £575 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Wales

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 62 66 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 18.45% 17.60% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 39 34
10th Percentile £206 £161 £181
25th Percentile £304 £211 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +5.41% -11.06%
75th Percentile £525 £544 £575
90th Percentile £648 £550 £643
Wales median daily rate £435 £450 £338
% change year-on-year -3.33% +33.33% -32.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 6
10th Percentile - £15.16 £12.96
25th Percentile - £21.50 £15.51
Median hourly rate £13.08 £25.36 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -48.42% +6.04% +18.16%
75th Percentile £65.15 £26.50 £26.88
90th Percentile £83.75 £48.75 £34.87
Wales median hourly rate £13.08 £27.00 £23.92
% change year-on-year -51.56% +12.90% +5.73%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Essentials relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in South Wales

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Cyber Essentials.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 8 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff - 1 £575 - 6
Cyber Essentials
Wales

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISMS
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST