Senior Security Specialist Contracts in South Wales

Senior Security Specialist
Wales > South Wales

The median Senior Security Specialist daily rate in South Wales is £238, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.40% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 - -
Wales median daily rate £238 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 230 301 387
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 91.77% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 189 293
10th Percentile £190 £137 £161
25th Percentile £266 £199 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -13.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £483 £538 £600
90th Percentile £630 £603 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 45 22
10th Percentile £12.91 £15.48 -
25th Percentile £13.08 £20.12 £16.98
Median hourly rate £16.00 £25.60 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +20.47% +18.06%
75th Percentile £20.75 £48.75 £35.69
90th Percentile £23.02 £53.75 £49.88
Wales median hourly rate £18.51 £25.48 £18.14
% change year-on-year -27.35% +40.46% +9.94%

Senior Security Specialist
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 Senior Security Specialist within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 14 August 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 £238 -
Senior Security Specialist
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 South Wales 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 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:

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