Boundary Protection Job Trends in South Wales

Boundary Protection
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales 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 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Boundary Protection 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
Wales median annual salary £75,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 616 361 871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 71.38% 90.25% 83.75%
Number of salaries quoted 380 204 687
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £37,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +1.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £74,743 £72,433
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £50,447 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.80% +12.10% -

Boundary Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Boundary Protection job vacancy trend in South Wales

Boundary Protection
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Boundary Protection within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. 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
Cardiff - 1 £75,000 - 1
Boundary Protection
Wales

Boundary Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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