Cybersecurity Jobs in South Wales

Cybersecurity
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 39 8
Rank change year-on-year -15 -31 +63
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 26 72 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.23% 7.17% 15.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 7.39% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17 32 72
10th Percentile - £41,566 £35,064
25th Percentile £34,000 £51,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £70,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +19.15% +30.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 - £73,750
90th Percentile £94,000 £73,625 £80,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £70,000 £55,911
% change year-on-year -35.71% +25.20% +30.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 796 974 1,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 68.27% 97.01% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 460 510 874
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,985 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,700 £38,750 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,521
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £76,950
Wales median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% +11.11%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in South Wales

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in South Wales.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in South Wales

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in South Wales over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in South Wales

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff -21 14 £50,309 -28.13% 10
Newport +13 8 £34,000 -51.43% 5
Bridgend +8 3 - - 1
Caerphilly +4 1 £45,000 -37.93% 2
Cybersecurity
Wales

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudTrail
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (11.54%) dbt
3 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) Network Security
2 4 (15.38%) Firewall
3 3 (11.54%) LAN
3 3 (11.54%) WAN
3 3 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.85%) NAS
4 1 (3.85%) SAN
4 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.85%) VLAN
4 1 (3.85%) VoIP
4 1 (3.85%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Digital Health
3 5 (19.23%) Digital Healthcare
4 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Aerospace
5 2 (7.69%) Finance
5 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Senior
2 5 (19.23%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 4 (15.38%) Security Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) IT Manager
4 3 (11.54%) IT Services Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Service Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 2 (7.69%) Head of Security
5 2 (7.69%) Security Researcher
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior UI Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior UI/UX Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior UX Designer
5 2 (7.69%) UI Designer
5 2 (7.69%) UI/UX Designer
5 2 (7.69%) UX Designer
6 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.54%) Driving Licence
2 3 (11.54%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Blog
3 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (7.69%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.85%) FPGA
4 1 (3.85%) NHS
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Roadmaps
2 5 (19.23%) SIEM
2 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (11.54%) Analytics
3 3 (11.54%) CRM
3 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
3 3 (11.54%) DevSecOps
3 3 (11.54%) ITSM
3 3 (11.54%) Migration
3 3 (11.54%) Security Operations
3 3 (11.54%) Service Desk Management
3 3 (11.54%) Service Management
3 3 (11.54%) Target Operating Model
3 3 (11.54%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (7.69%) Data Analytics
4 2 (7.69%) ISMS
4 2 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (7.69%) Machine Learning
4 2 (7.69%) User Experience
4 2 (7.69%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (11.54%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Rust
4 1 (3.85%) C
4 1 (3.85%) C++
4 1 (3.85%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) CCNA
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.69%) PhD
4 1 (3.85%) CISM
4 1 (3.85%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.85%) IEC 62304
2 1 (3.85%) ISO 13485
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
2 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.85%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Puppet
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Splunk
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Sage
4 1 (3.85%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) VMware