NCSC Contract Job Trends in West Wales

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring NCSC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 1.85% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Wales median daily rate £550 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Wales

NCSC falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 9.26% 7.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile - £185 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £190 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% - -
75th Percentile £488 £195 -
90th Percentile £525 - -
Wales median daily rate £450 £325 £509
% change year-on-year +38.46% -36.09% +7.05%

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Swansea - 1 £550 -
NCSC
Wales

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes