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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 30 49
Rank change year-on-year +24 +19 -12
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 225 34 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 9.24% 4.68% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.22% 5.62% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 95 23 39
10th Percentile £30,608 £31,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,822 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +27.22% -28.13%
75th Percentile £73,908 £80,517 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £73,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -9.65%

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 1,582 605 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.00% 83.33% 66.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,164 448 900
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £33,875 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,669 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,065 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 29 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 29 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 +21 161 £50,000 -23.08% 44
West Wales -4 43 £75,000 +120.59% 8
North Wales +12 20 £37,500 +108.33% 2
Dyfed - 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 11 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 113 (50.22%) Azure
2 21 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (4.89%) AWS
4 8 (3.56%) GitHub
5 6 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (2.67%) Amazon S3
5 6 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.67%) CloudFront
5 6 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (2.67%) Serverless
6 4 (1.78%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.33%) dbt
8 2 (0.89%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.44%) Datadog
9 1 (0.44%) GCP
9 1 (0.44%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.56%) Firewall
2 6 (2.67%) VLAN
3 5 (2.22%) DHCP
3 5 (2.22%) DNS
4 4 (1.78%) LAN
4 4 (1.78%) WAN
5 3 (1.33%) Internet
6 2 (0.89%) Broadband
6 2 (0.89%) FTP
6 2 (0.89%) HTTP
6 2 (0.89%) RTP
6 2 (0.89%) SMTP
6 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.89%) VoIP
6 2 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.44%) DKIM
7 1 (0.44%) DMARC
7 1 (0.44%) Network Security
7 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (2.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.22%) JIRA
3 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.44%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) JMeter
3 1 (0.44%) Locust
General
1 118 (52.44%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.44%) Public Sector
3 12 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.00%) Telecoms
5 6 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.78%) Advertising
6 4 (1.78%) Finance
7 3 (1.33%) Retail
8 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Welsh Language
9 1 (0.44%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.44%) Law
9 1 (0.44%) Legal
9 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.44%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 61 (27.11%) Analyst
2 53 (23.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 48 (21.33%) Security Analyst
4 46 (20.44%) Junior
4 46 (20.44%) Junior Analyst
5 45 (20.00%) Ethical Hacker
5 45 (20.00%) Junior Security Analyst
6 26 (11.56%) IT Manager
7 24 (10.67%) Senior
8 23 (10.22%) Architect
9 18 (8.00%) Help Desk Manager
10 16 (7.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 14 (6.22%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 14 (6.22%) Security Architect
12 11 (4.89%) Security Manager
13 10 (4.44%) Help Desk Technician
14 9 (4.00%) Senior Manager
15 8 (3.56%) IT Technician
15 8 (3.56%) Senior IT Technician
15 8 (3.56%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.56%) Spring Boot
2 7 (3.11%) Node.js
3 6 (2.67%) AWS CDK
3 6 (2.67%) GraphQL
3 6 (2.67%) REST
3 6 (2.67%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (0.89%) CSS
4 2 (0.89%) HTML
4 2 (0.89%) LDAP
4 2 (0.89%) Spring
5 1 (0.44%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.44%) CSS3
5 1 (0.44%) Express.js
5 1 (0.44%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.44%) hapi
5 1 (0.44%) HTML5
5 1 (0.44%) NestJS
5 1 (0.44%) React
5 1 (0.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 6 (2.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.67%) Digital Wallet
2 6 (2.67%) Mainframe
3 5 (2.22%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.22%) Security Posture
4 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.33%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (0.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.44%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.44%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.56%) Windows
2 5 (2.22%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 45 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 18 (8.00%) Service Delivery
4 15 (6.67%) Agile
4 15 (6.67%) Customer Service
5 14 (6.22%) Incident Response
6 13 (5.78%) Security Operations
7 12 (5.33%) Coaching
7 12 (5.33%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (5.33%) Risk Management
8 11 (4.89%) CRM
8 11 (4.89%) Threat Modelling
8 11 (4.89%) Vulnerability Management
9 9 (4.00%) AI
9 9 (4.00%) Data Protection
9 9 (4.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 9 (4.00%) Information Governance
9 9 (4.00%) Software Engineering
9 9 (4.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (3.56%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.00%) Java
2 6 (2.67%) COBOL
2 6 (2.67%) Ruby
3 4 (1.78%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.89%) Python
6 1 (0.44%) C#
Qualifications
1 94 (41.78%) Azure Certification
2 48 (21.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 46 (20.44%) CompTIA CySA+
4 45 (20.00%) CEH
5 14 (6.22%) Degree
6 7 (3.11%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 7 (3.11%) Security Cleared
7 6 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.67%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.78%) CISSP
8 4 (1.78%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.33%) CISM
9 3 (1.33%) CISMP
9 3 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.44%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.00%) GRC
1 9 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.11%) NCSC
3 6 (2.67%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (2.22%) NIST
5 2 (0.89%) PMO
5 2 (0.89%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.44%) GDPR
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) QA
6 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.22%) Hyper-V
2 5 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.11%) Terraform
2 2 (0.89%) QRadar
3 1 (0.44%) Grafana
3 1 (0.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 121 (53.78%) Microsoft
2 90 (40.00%) ForeScout
3 5 (2.22%) VMware
4 3 (1.33%) Splunk
5 2 (0.89%) ArcSight
5 2 (0.89%) Aruba
5 2 (0.89%) Draytek
5 2 (0.89%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.89%) Yealink
6 1 (0.44%) Acronis
6 1 (0.44%) AlienVault
6 1 (0.44%) Cisco
6 1 (0.44%) Google
6 1 (0.44%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.44%) Zscaler