Security Operations Jobs in South Wales

Security Operations (SecOps)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 77 102
Rank change year-on-year -20 +25 -19
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 6 32 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.42% 2.79% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 2.91% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 9
10th Percentile - £35,107 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £31,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £56,000
90th Percentile - £61,650 £58,000
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Security Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,146 1,101 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 79.47% 95.99% 92.95%
Number of salaries quoted 740 585 858
10th Percentile £28,290 £28,804 £31,475
25th Percentile £36,019 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,496 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -7.15% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62,200 £62,988 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,433 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.20%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in South Wales

Security Operations
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Security Operations in South Wales

Security Operations
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 Operations within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 25 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
Bridgend -21 5 - - 1
Cardiff -10 1 £52,500 +14.13% 1
Security Operations
Wales

Security Operations
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) Network Security
1 4 (66.67%) VPN
2 3 (50.00%) FTP
2 3 (50.00%) HTTP
2 3 (50.00%) Internet
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) SMTP
2 3 (50.00%) Sourcefire
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Games
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) LDAP
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (33.33%) CMDB
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) Compliance Audit
3 3 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Two-Factor Authentication
4 2 (33.33%) Blue Team
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) ChatOps
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 2 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (33.33%) Service Management
4 2 (33.33%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISMP
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) ArcSight
2 3 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (50.00%) F5
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) Juniper
2 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 3 (50.00%) TippingPoint
2 3 (50.00%) Trend Micro
3 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow