Rapid7 Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Rapid7
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring knowledge or experience of Rapid7 products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rapid7 over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Rapid7 LLC.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rapid7 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.21% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Wales median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
South Wales

Rapid7 falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 217 110 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 45.11% 41.67% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 68 78
10th Percentile £304 £181 £155
25th Percentile £331 £276 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £381 £370
Median % change year-on-year +22.62% +3.04% -26.00%
75th Percentile £575 £484 £542
90th Percentile £715 £611 £589
Wales median daily rate £468 £363 £413
% change year-on-year +28.97% -12.12% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 10 10
10th Percentile £14.13 £12.21 £25.29
25th Percentile £18.25 £16.13 £31.70
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -60.00% +114.30%
75th Percentile £21.25 £20.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £20.96 £85.28
Wales median hourly rate £20.73 £20.50 £43.64
% change year-on-year +1.12% -53.02% +82.48%

Rapid7
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rapid7 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Rapid7 job vacancy trend in South Wales

Rapid7
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 Rapid7 within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 17 September 2026. 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 - -
Rapid7
Wales

Rapid7
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%) 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 Monitoring
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%) Splunk