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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 26 39
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 213 42 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 6.61% 5.05% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.22% 6.10% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 126 28 25
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,825 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,938 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,355 £65,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.92% +44.44% -35.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,300 £53,904
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £89,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -7.69%

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 2,084 688 970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.68% 82.69% 66.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,446 516 607
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £30,000 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +5.43% +0.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £74,487
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +16 168 £47,500 -32.14% 80
West Wales -41 28 £55,000 +61.76% 16
North Wales +14 16 - - 5
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 12 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (25.82%) Azure
2 14 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (4.23%) AWS
4 7 (3.29%) GitHub
5 6 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (2.82%) Amazon S3
5 6 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.82%) CloudFront
5 6 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (2.82%) Mimecast
5 6 (2.82%) Serverless
6 4 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 2 (0.94%) Canva
7 2 (0.94%) dbt
7 2 (0.94%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.94%) MailChimp
8 1 (0.47%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.04%) Firewall
2 5 (2.35%) LAN
2 5 (2.35%) WAN
3 4 (1.88%) Broadband
4 3 (1.41%) RTP
4 3 (1.41%) VLAN
4 3 (1.41%) VoIP
4 3 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.94%) FTP
5 2 (0.94%) HTTP
5 2 (0.94%) Internet
5 2 (0.94%) SMTP
5 2 (0.94%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.47%) DHCP
6 1 (0.47%) DKIM
6 1 (0.47%) DMARC
6 1 (0.47%) DNS
6 1 (0.47%) Network Security
6 1 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (2.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.35%) JIRA
General
1 69 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 17 (7.98%) Public Sector
3 13 (6.10%) Finance
4 10 (4.69%) Telecoms
5 9 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.23%) Marketing
6 8 (3.76%) Retail
7 6 (2.82%) Advertising
8 4 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Publishing
10 2 (0.94%) Welsh Language
11 1 (0.47%) Law
11 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (18.78%) Analyst
2 38 (17.84%) IT Manager
3 32 (15.02%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 27 (12.68%) Security Analyst
5 26 (12.21%) Architect
6 24 (11.27%) Help Desk Manager
7 19 (8.92%) Junior
7 19 (8.92%) Junior Analyst
8 18 (8.45%) Ethical Hacker
8 18 (8.45%) Junior Security Analyst
9 17 (7.98%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 17 (7.98%) Security Architect
10 16 (7.51%) Senior
11 15 (7.04%) Business Development Executive
12 13 (6.10%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 10 (4.69%) Penetration Tester
13 10 (4.69%) Tester
14 8 (3.76%) Security Manager
15 7 (3.29%) IT Project Manager
15 7 (3.29%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.76%) Spring Boot
2 7 (3.29%) Node.js
3 6 (2.82%) AWS CDK
3 6 (2.82%) GraphQL
3 6 (2.82%) REST
3 6 (2.82%) Ruby on Rails
3 6 (2.82%) Terraform
4 2 (0.94%) LDAP
4 2 (0.94%) Spring
5 1 (0.47%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.47%) CSS
5 1 (0.47%) CSS3
5 1 (0.47%) Express.js
5 1 (0.47%) hapi
5 1 (0.47%) HTML
5 1 (0.47%) HTML5
5 1 (0.47%) NestJS
5 1 (0.47%) React
5 1 (0.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.45%) Cyberattack
2 13 (6.10%) Operational Technology
3 10 (4.69%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.82%) Digital Wallet
4 6 (2.82%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.88%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.94%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.94%) Photography
8 2 (0.94%) Social Media
8 2 (0.94%) Video Editing
8 2 (0.94%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.47%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.57%) Windows
2 1 (0.47%) Android
2 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (10.33%) Risk Management
2 21 (9.86%) Incident Response
2 21 (9.86%) Mentoring
3 18 (8.45%) Business Development
3 18 (8.45%) Ethical Hacking
3 18 (8.45%) Penetration Testing
4 16 (7.51%) Service Delivery
4 16 (7.51%) Vulnerability Management
5 15 (7.04%) Security Operations
6 14 (6.57%) Agile
6 14 (6.57%) ITIL
7 13 (6.10%) Cloud Security
7 13 (6.10%) Coaching
7 13 (6.10%) Customer Service
8 12 (5.63%) CRM
8 12 (5.63%) Cyber Resilience
8 12 (5.63%) PRINCE2
9 11 (5.16%) AI
9 11 (5.16%) Software Engineering
10 10 (4.69%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.76%) Java
2 6 (2.82%) COBOL
2 6 (2.82%) Ruby
3 3 (1.41%) JavaScript
3 3 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (18.31%) Azure Certification
2 24 (11.27%) CompTIA CySA+
3 21 (9.86%) CompTIA Security+
4 18 (8.45%) CEH
4 18 (8.45%) Degree
5 9 (4.23%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 6 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (2.35%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.35%) PMP
9 4 (1.88%) SC Cleared
10 3 (1.41%) CISMP
10 3 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.94%) CISSP
12 1 (0.47%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.47%) CISM
12 1 (0.47%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.51%) GRC
2 12 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.29%) NCSC
4 6 (2.82%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (1.88%) NIST
6 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.94%) PMO
6 2 (0.94%) SLA
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) GDPR
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.94%) QRadar
Vendors
1 58 (27.23%) Microsoft
2 36 (16.90%) ForeScout
3 4 (1.88%) Splunk
4 3 (1.41%) Aruba
4 3 (1.41%) Draytek
4 3 (1.41%) Yealink
5 2 (0.94%) Adobe
5 2 (0.94%) AlienVault
5 2 (0.94%) ArcSight
5 2 (0.94%) Facebook
5 2 (0.94%) Instagram
5 2 (0.94%) LogRhythm
5 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.47%) Acronis
6 1 (0.47%) Cisco
6 1 (0.47%) Google
6 1 (0.47%) VMware
6 1 (0.47%) Zscaler