Cybersecurity Job Trends in Wales

Cybersecurity
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 34 59
Rank change year-on-year +29 +25 -18
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 220 31 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 9.72% 4.57% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.05% 5.48% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 89 20 40
10th Percentile £31,165 £33,275 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £51,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,500 £48,528
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +32.91% -30.68%
75th Percentile £74,500 £86,957 £57,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £67,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -10.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

Cybersecurity 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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,462 566 1,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.58% 83.48% 70.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,057 394 1,139
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,188 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,699 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% +14.89% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £77,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Wales

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Wales over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Wales

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Wales region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
South Wales +21 153 £52,500 -19.23% 43
West Wales +5 45 £74,600 +119.41% 9
North Wales +11 21 £37,500 +108.33% 1
Dyfed - 1 - - 1
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 113 (51.36%) Azure
2 20 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (4.55%) AWS
4 7 (3.18%) GitHub
5 5 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (2.27%) Amazon S3
5 5 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (2.27%) CloudFront
5 5 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (2.27%) Serverless
6 2 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (0.91%) dbt
7 1 (0.45%) Datadog
7 1 (0.45%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.45%) GCP
7 1 (0.45%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.45%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.82%) Firewall
2 5 (2.27%) DHCP
2 5 (2.27%) DNS
2 5 (2.27%) VLAN
3 3 (1.36%) Internet
3 3 (1.36%) LAN
3 3 (1.36%) WAN
4 2 (0.91%) FTP
4 2 (0.91%) HTTP
4 2 (0.91%) SMTP
4 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.45%) Broadband
5 1 (0.45%) DKIM
5 1 (0.45%) DMARC
5 1 (0.45%) Network Security
5 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.45%) RTP
5 1 (0.45%) VoIP
5 1 (0.45%) VPN
5 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (2.27%) Jenkins
1 5 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.45%) Git
2 1 (0.45%) JMeter
2 1 (0.45%) Locust
General
1 117 (53.18%) Social Skills
2 15 (6.82%) Public Sector
3 12 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (3.64%) Telecoms
5 6 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.73%) Finance
6 4 (1.82%) Advertising
7 3 (1.36%) Retail
8 2 (0.91%) Multimedia
8 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.91%) Welsh Language
9 1 (0.45%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.45%) Law
9 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 60 (27.27%) Analyst
2 51 (23.18%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 49 (22.27%) Junior
3 49 (22.27%) Junior Analyst
3 49 (22.27%) Security Analyst
4 48 (21.82%) Junior Security Analyst
5 45 (20.45%) Ethical Hacker
6 23 (10.45%) IT Manager
7 22 (10.00%) Senior
8 20 (9.09%) Architect
9 14 (6.36%) Help Desk Manager
10 13 (5.91%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 13 (5.91%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 13 (5.91%) Security Architect
11 12 (5.45%) Security Manager
12 9 (4.09%) Help Desk Technician
13 8 (3.64%) Developer
13 8 (3.64%) IT Technician
13 8 (3.64%) Senior IT Technician
13 8 (3.64%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.18%) Spring Boot
2 6 (2.73%) Node.js
3 5 (2.27%) AWS CDK
3 5 (2.27%) GraphQL
3 5 (2.27%) REST
3 5 (2.27%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (0.91%) CSS
4 2 (0.91%) HTML
4 2 (0.91%) LDAP
4 2 (0.91%) Spring
5 1 (0.45%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.45%) CSS3
5 1 (0.45%) Express.js
5 1 (0.45%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.45%) hapi
5 1 (0.45%) HTML5
5 1 (0.45%) NestJS
5 1 (0.45%) React
5 1 (0.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.45%) Cyberattack
2 6 (2.73%) Security Posture
3 5 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.27%) Digital Wallet
3 5 (2.27%) Mainframe
3 5 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.82%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.82%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (0.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (0.91%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.45%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.45%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.82%) Windows
2 4 (1.82%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (24.55%) Mentoring
2 46 (20.91%) Ethical Hacking
3 16 (7.27%) Risk Management
4 15 (6.82%) Service Delivery
5 14 (6.36%) Customer Service
6 13 (5.91%) Agile
7 12 (5.45%) Incident Response
8 11 (5.00%) Coaching
8 11 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (5.00%) Security Operations
9 10 (4.55%) CRM
9 10 (4.55%) Information Governance
9 10 (4.55%) Threat Modelling
9 10 (4.55%) Vulnerability Management
10 9 (4.09%) Data Protection
11 8 (3.64%) Application Security
11 8 (3.64%) B2B
11 8 (3.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 8 (3.64%) Software Engineering
11 8 (3.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.64%) Java
2 5 (2.27%) COBOL
2 5 (2.27%) Ruby
3 4 (1.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.91%) Python
6 1 (0.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 95 (43.18%) Azure Certification
2 50 (22.73%) CompTIA Security+
3 49 (22.27%) CompTIA CySA+
4 46 (20.91%) CEH
5 13 (5.91%) Degree
6 7 (3.18%) CISSP
6 7 (3.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 7 (3.18%) Security Cleared
7 6 (2.73%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.36%) CISM
9 3 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.36%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.91%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.91%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.45%) CISMP
11 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.55%) GRC
2 9 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.27%) Government Security Classifications
3 5 (2.27%) NCSC
3 5 (2.27%) NIST
4 2 (0.91%) PMO
5 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) COBIT
5 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) QA
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.27%) Hyper-V
1 5 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.73%) Terraform
2 2 (0.91%) QRadar
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
3 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 120 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 93 (42.27%) ForeScout
3 5 (2.27%) VMware
4 2 (0.91%) ArcSight
4 2 (0.91%) Splunk
5 1 (0.45%) Acronis
5 1 (0.45%) Aruba
5 1 (0.45%) Cisco
5 1 (0.45%) Draytek
5 1 (0.45%) Google
5 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.45%) Yealink
5 1 (0.45%) Zscaler