Security Patching Jobs in South Wales

Security Patching
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Security Patching skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Patching over the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 84 107
Rank change year-on-year +11 +23 +13
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Security Patching 5 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.31% 0.079% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.12% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 -
90th Percentile £51,750 - -
Wales median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £24,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +118.75% -56.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Security Patching 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,332 868 1,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 83.41% 68.19% 96.54%
Number of salaries quoted 947 555 493
10th Percentile £21,620 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile - £35,700 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.83% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,838 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £73,200
Wales median annual salary £29,944 £45,000 £45,017
% change year-on-year -33.46% -0.04% -9.97%

Security Patching
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Patching in South Wales

Security Patching
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Security Patching.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Security Patching

Security Patching
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 Patching within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +28 4 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Newport - 1 £52,500 -
Security Patching
Wales

Security Patching
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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) MariaDB
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
1 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) VMWare Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) CentOS
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) GCIH
2 1 (20.00%) SANS
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler