Security Engineer Jobs in South Wales

Security Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Security Engineer salary in South Wales is £40,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 103 110
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 15 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.04% 0.43% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.48% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 14 5 4
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,450 £54,000
25th Percentile £36,063 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £41,750 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £63,375 - £66,000
Wales median annual salary £40,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -26.36% -4.35% +27.78%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,309 1,032 1,400
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 89.43% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 866 585 864
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,099 £45,456 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -9.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,988 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in South Wales

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in South Wales

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in South Wales over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in South Wales

Security Engineer
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 Security Engineer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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 +12 11 £40,500 -6.36% 4
Torfaen - 4 £35,000 -
Security Engineer
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 South Wales region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 6 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) SIEM
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Application Security
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) CSIRT
4 2 (13.33%) Runbook
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (13.33%) Terraform
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
4 2 (13.33%) Information Security
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Network Security
4 2 (13.33%) Kanban
4 2 (13.33%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) CCNA

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) VoIP
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
1 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (20.00%) SIEM
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) Application Security
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Information Security
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (13.33%) Kanban
3 2 (13.33%) Runbook
3 2 (13.33%) Scrum
3 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (6.67%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (6.67%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CCNA
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) CISMP
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) CSIRT
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft