Security Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Security Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Security Engineer salary in Cardiff is £40,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 65 89
Rank change year-on-year +13 +24 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 12 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.81% 0.35% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 0.38% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 5
10th Percentile - £32,925 £54,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £36,188 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £43,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -27.92% -
75th Percentile £50,750 £51,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £54,975 -
South Wales median annual salary £40,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.36% -8.33% -

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 620 527 836
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 91.18% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 539 403 623
10th Percentile £27,157 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,632 £39,625 £39,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,383 £67,070 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £77,250 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Cardiff

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Cardiff

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in Cardiff

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

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

1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) SIEM
3 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) CCNA
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (16.67%) Information Security
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) Network Security
4 2 (16.67%) Kanban
4 2 (16.67%) Application Security
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Runbook
4 2 (16.67%) CSIRT
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud

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 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (8.33%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) LAN
3 1 (8.33%) VoIP
3 1 (8.33%) VPN
3 1 (8.33%) WAN
3 1 (8.33%) Wireless
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (8.33%) SCADA
2 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Application Security
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Kanban
3 2 (16.67%) Runbook
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
4 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (8.33%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CCNA
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) CISMP
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) CSIRT
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft