SOAR Job Trends in Cardiff

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring SOAR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 43 59
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 +15
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 1 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.27% 0.36% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.41% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +22.22% -1.10%
75th Percentile £40,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +22.22% -1.10%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

SOAR 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 271 242 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 72.46% 86.43% 85.34%
Number of salaries quoted 182 144 409
10th Percentile £30,800 - £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -5.39% +3.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,742 £80,000 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £49,875 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.25% -0.25% +7.53%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

SOAR job vacancy trend in Cardiff

SOAR
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing SOAR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing SOAR

SOAR
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) VMware