Boundary Protection Job Trends in Cardiff

Boundary Protection
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Boundary Protection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Boundary Protection 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
South Wales median annual salary £75,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Boundary Protection 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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 284 186 496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 68.93% 92.08% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 184 127 447
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,200
25th Percentile £42,500 £34,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% +1.37%
75th Percentile £65,625 £66,936 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +1.50%

Boundary Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Boundary Protection relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Boundary Protection job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Boundary Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HSRP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPLS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) VMware