Checkmarx Contract Job Trends in Wales

Checkmarx
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring knowledge or experience of Checkmarx products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Checkmarx over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 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 Checkmarx.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Checkmarx 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.15% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £570 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +14.00% -9.09% -15.38%

All Vendors
Wales

Checkmarx 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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 256 154 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 39.26% 40.74% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 86 103
10th Percentile £260 £190 £144
25th Percentile £325 £245 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £363 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.52% -19.44% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £482 £536
90th Percentile £660 £619 £588
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 12
10th Percentile £13.35 £15.23 £22.62
25th Percentile £16.38 £18.75 £25.12
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.50 £33.64
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -39.06% +40.66%
75th Percentile £24.26 £21.50 £50.94
90th Percentile £55.00 £29.28 £54.88
UK median hourly rate £25.04 £25.15 £31.50
% change year-on-year -0.45% -20.17% -26.74%

Checkmarx
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Checkmarx job vacancy trend in Wales

Checkmarx
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Checkmarx within the Wales region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
South Wales - 1 - -
Checkmarx
UK

Checkmarx
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Testing Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (100.00%) GWAPT
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode