GWAPT Contract Job Trends in Wales

GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for GWAPT qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GWAPT 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.15% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £713 £700 -
% change year-on-year +1.79% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

GWAPT falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 187 112 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 28.68% 29.63% 37.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 59 75
10th Percentile £304 £203 £133
25th Percentile £413 £280 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £331 £400
Median % change year-on-year +59.28% -17.21% -20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £524
90th Percentile £800 £678 £629
UK median daily rate £533 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 23 30
10th Percentile £13.20 £13.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £14.10 £21.83 £20.12
Median hourly rate £14.91 £25.15 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year -40.72% -0.83% -23.15%
75th Percentile £43.96 - £48.75
90th Percentile £54.38 £29.03 £53.88
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -47.05% -11.69%

GWAPT
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 GWAPT 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 - -
GWAPT
UK

GWAPT
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%) 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%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode