Cyber Assurance Contracts in Wales

Cyber Assurance
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Cyber Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Assurance 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.29% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 - -
UK median daily rate £700 £475 £601
% change year-on-year +47.37% -20.90% +6.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Cyber Assurance 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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 298 297 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 85.63% 76.35% 86.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 167 311
10th Percentile £190 £142 £180
25th Percentile £270 £209 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £412 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -13.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £541 £588
90th Percentile £647 £605 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 50 20
10th Percentile £13.08 £14.86 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.33 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.50 £22.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -1.11% +25.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.44 £39.69
90th Percentile - £53.75 £50.14
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -1.35% +56.60%

Cyber Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Cyber Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Assurance in Wales

Cyber Assurance
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 Cyber Assurance within the Wales region over the 6 months to 16 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
South Wales - 1 £238 - 1
Cyber Assurance
UK

Cyber Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CSOC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
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