Security Testing Job Trends in Swansea

Security Testing
West Wales > Swansea

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 1.55% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% - -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £43,125 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median annual salary £46,250 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

Security Testing 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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 277 32 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 71.58% 76.19% 77.71%
Number of salaries quoted 173 26 104
10th Percentile £32,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,733 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -19.29% +4.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £68,500
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,733 £42,500
% change year-on-year +32.51% -11.22% -4.94%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

Security Testing job vacancy trend in Swansea

Security Testing
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Security Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Security Testing

Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (66.67%) Serverless
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
1 4 (66.67%) Postman
1 4 (66.67%) REST Assured
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
1 4 (66.67%) Zephyr
2 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) JUnit
2 3 (50.00%) Newman
2 3 (50.00%) TestRail
3 1 (16.67%) Burp Suite
3 1 (16.67%) Gatling
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) Pa11y
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Test Development Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Node.js
1 4 (66.67%) Playwright
1 4 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) Jest
2 3 (50.00%) React
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
4 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) Data Strategy
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) Test Management
3 4 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (50.00%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) Community of Practice
4 3 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (50.00%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Ruby
2 4 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 4 (66.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (66.67%) WCAG
3 2 (33.33%) QA