Network Security Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Network Security Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Network Security Engineer salary in Cardiff is £46,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 65 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.30% 0.17% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.19% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £41,125 - -
25th Percentile £42,813 £30,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £31,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.83% - -
75th Percentile £50,313 £32,250 -
90th Percentile £52,375 - -
South Wales median annual salary £46,250 £31,500 -
% change year-on-year +46.83% - -

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 619 525 830
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 90.99% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 538 401 619
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,173 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% -4.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,575 £67,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,625 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,496 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.09% -9.01% +11.11%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in Cardiff

Network Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Network Security Engineer in Cardiff

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Network Security 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 Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) CISMP
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless

Network Security 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%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CISMP
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware