Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Cybersecurity Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in Cardiff is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 68 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.30% 0.18% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.19% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 -
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title 630 518 834
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 91.52% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 549 397 620
10th Percentile £27,157 £31,050 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £39,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,766 £67,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £46,244 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.76% -10.00% +11.11%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Cardiff

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in Cardiff.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Cardiff

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cardiff region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) CSIRT
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) CSIRT
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform