Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in Wales

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in Wales is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 125 140
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 3 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.15% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £46,500 - £42,575
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £43,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +21.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £47,563
90th Percentile - - £48,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +30.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 1,868 1,432 1,794
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 85.85% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,268 822 1,148
10th Percentile £26,425 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,688 £35,156 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,533 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Wales

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Wales

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in Wales over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in Wales

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
South Wales +4 2 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 Wales region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) CSIRT
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Django

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

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) Jinja
1 1 (33.33%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C++
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) CSIRT
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform