Security Posture Contract Job Trends in Wales

Security Posture
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in contract job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 44 53
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 +6
Contract jobs citing Security Posture 1 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.22% 0.66% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% 2.01% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £650 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +40.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £750 £525
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £595 £635
% change year-on-year -11.76% -6.30% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £56.50
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -48.46% +15.04% +61.43%

All Generic Skills
Wales

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 142 149 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 31.56% 32.96% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 92 119
10th Percentile £170 £134 £173
25th Percentile £220 £177 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 £330 £340
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -2.94% -24.44%
75th Percentile £435 £550 £551
90th Percentile £529 £682 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 9
10th Percentile £13.08 £20.07 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £22.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% -36.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £21.50 £27.50 £55.25
90th Percentile £32.25 £45.52 £55.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.00% -14.46% +51.69%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in Wales

Security Posture
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Security Posture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Security Posture

Security Posture
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 Security Posture within the Wales region over the 6 months to 11 November 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 0 1 £700 -
Security Posture
UK

Security Posture
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft