SANS Contracts in South Wales

SANS Institute
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for SANS qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SANS 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.59% - 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.25% - 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £644 - -
25th Percentile £652 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 - -
75th Percentile £679 - -
90th Percentile £686 - -
Wales median daily rate £666 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Wales

SANS is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 89 190 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 26.25% 36.68% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 139 229
10th Percentile £220 £210 £293
25th Percentile £481 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -0.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £646 £619 £625
90th Percentile £725 £669 £680
Wales median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 13
10th Percentile £11.01 - £19.98
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £20.75
Median hourly rate £23.93 £18.14 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.92% -60.78% +111.96%
75th Percentile £85.75 £20.10 £47.40
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.38 -
Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £46.25
% change year-on-year +25.03% -60.78% +150.88%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SANS in South Wales

SANS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SANS in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for SANS in South Wales

SANS
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 SANS within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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 £666 -
SANS
Wales

SANS
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) AppScan
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Graylog
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) HP Fortify
2 1 (50.00%) Nessus
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Veracode