Head of Cybersecurity Job Trends in South Wales

Head of Cybersecurity
Wales > South Wales

The median Head of Cybersecurity salary in South Wales is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Cybersecurity 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.12% - 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £150,000
Wales median annual salary £85,000 - £117,500
% change year-on-year - - +110.16%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 754 810 550
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.02% 97.12% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 568 508 424
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £40,945
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,194 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.15% -7.00%

Head of Cybersecurity
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 Head of Cybersecurity within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 November 2025. 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
Gwent - 1 £85,000 - 1
Head of Cybersecurity
Wales

Head of Cybersecurity Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 28 November 2025, Head of Cybersecurity job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South Wales region featuring Head of Cybersecurity in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection

Head of Cybersecurity Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Media
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2