Security Testing Job Trends in West Wales

Security Testing
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Security Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 1.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% - -
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 - - -
Wales median annual salary £47,500 - £95,000

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Wales

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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 334 34 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 68.87% 75.56% 72.55%
Number of salaries quoted 228 26 129
10th Percentile £32,000 £21,250 £28,400
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,733 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.51% -11.22% -4.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,762 £55,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £64,108
Wales median annual salary £51,709 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.42% +11.11% -

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Security Testing job vacancy trend in West Wales

Security Testing
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Security Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Security Testing

Security Testing
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Swansea - 6 £46,250 - 2
Security Testing
Wales

Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 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