SOAR Job Trends in South Wales

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring SOAR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 66 70
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +23
Permanent jobs citing SOAR 1 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.13% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +22.22% -1.10%
75th Percentile £40,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +22.22% -1.10%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

SOAR 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 587 525 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 75.06% 83.47% 90.38%
Number of salaries quoted 407 267 426
10th Percentile £25,032 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £39,460
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,825 £79,600 £72,433
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

SOAR job vacancy trend in South Wales

SOAR
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing SOAR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing SOAR

SOAR
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 SOAR within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 +13 1 £38,500 -30.00%
SOAR
Wales

SOAR
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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) VMware