Rapid7 Contract Job Trends in Wales

Rapid7
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring knowledge or experience of Rapid7 products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rapid7 over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 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 Rapid7 LLC.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rapid7 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.15% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £514 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +9.36% -6.00% -2.01%

All Vendors
Wales

Rapid7 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 269 144 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 41.45% 39.89% 38.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 86 96
10th Percentile £299 £183 £140
25th Percentile £331 £212 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £363 £413
Median % change year-on-year +28.97% -12.12% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £482 £540
90th Percentile £683 £619 £588
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 14
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.44 £22.85
25th Percentile £18.25 £19.88 £25.60
Median hourly rate £20.73 £20.50 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -53.02% +82.48%
75th Percentile £35.78 £21.50 £54.69
90th Percentile £55.00 £24.12 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £27.30 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.55% -16.17% -31.56%

Rapid7
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rapid7 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Rapid7 job vacancy trend in Wales

Rapid7
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 Rapid7 within the Wales region over the 6 months to 17 September 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 - -
Rapid7
UK

Rapid7
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk