Security Operations Jobs in South Wales

Security Operations (SecOps)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 79 107
Rank change year-on-year -21 +28 -22
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 8 31 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.47% 2.62% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 2.72% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 9
10th Percentile - £44,650 -
25th Percentile - £45,500 £31,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -4.32%
75th Percentile £50,938 £57,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £52,625 £69,000 £58,000
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Security Operations 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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,259 1,141 1,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 74.41% 96.29% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 832 560 862
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,391 £31,569
25th Percentile £35,700 £35,427 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,029 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,313 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in South Wales

Security Operations
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Operations in South Wales.

Salary trend for Security Operations in South Wales

Security Operations
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Operations within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Cardiff -2 5 £50,000 +8.70% 2
Bridgend -10 3 - -
Security Operations
Wales

Security Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) SMTP
2 1 (12.50%) Sourcefire
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Incident Response Lead
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) CMDB
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (37.50%) Blue Team
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Runbook
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) ChatOps
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (25.00%) Service Management
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
4 1 (12.50%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Two-Factor Authentication
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CISMP
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) ArcSight
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) TippingPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Trend Micro