Information Security Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Information Security (InfoSec)
Wales > South Wales

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 36 35
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Information Security 2 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.81% 1.83% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 2.26% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 12
10th Percentile £546 £289 -
25th Percentile £559 £509 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £664 £275
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +141.36% -57.69%
75th Percentile £659 £705 £459
90th Percentile £669 £732 £521
Wales median daily rate £613 £664 £275
% change year-on-year -7.72% +141.36% -57.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Information Security 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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 222 265 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.52% 80.79% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 139 273
10th Percentile £190 £142 £191
25th Percentile £266 £209 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% -15.79% -7.77%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £413 £463
% change year-on-year -3.03% -10.81% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 40 23
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £16.98
25th Percentile £13.37 £20.12 £19.13
Median hourly rate £14.81 £25.36 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.62% +1.44% +25.57%
75th Percentile £20.75 £47.81 £40.63
90th Percentile - £53.88 £51.16
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.36 £24.46
% change year-on-year -19.16% +3.69% +35.88%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in South Wales

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Information Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Information Security

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Information Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Information Security

Information Security
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 Information Security within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 6 September 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 +2 2 £613 -7.72% 3
Information Security
Wales

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Case
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) ISMS
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST