Vulnerability Management Jobs in Scotland

Vulnerability Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 92 164
Rank change year-on-year -156 +72 +2
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 25 134 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 3.08% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 3.26% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 18 15 22
10th Percentile £44,179 £36,858 £33,488
25th Percentile £47,231 £45,000 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £51,367 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.64% -20.36% +51.22%
75th Percentile £81,875 £60,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £142,500 - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £64,375
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% -0.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Vulnerability Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,205 4,105 5,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.74% 94.35% 91.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,476 2,058 2,852
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in Scotland

Vulnerability Management
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Management in Scotland.

Salary trend for Vulnerability Management in Scotland

Vulnerability Management
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Management in Scotland

Vulnerability Management
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow -145 20 £66,250 +32.50% 3
Edinburgh -8 3 £48,507 -19.16%
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £40,000 -
Vulnerability Management
UK

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) IaaS
3 2 (8.00%) PaaS
3 2 (8.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Network Security
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
3 1 (4.00%) LAN
3 1 (4.00%) WAN
General
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
2 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Marketing
4 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (16.00%) Law
4 4 (16.00%) Legal
5 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Games
6 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Security Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Security Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Risk Manager
4 4 (16.00%) Technology Risk Manager
5 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Chief Technology Officer
6 2 (8.00%) Data Centre Team Leader
6 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) IT Security Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Senior
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Security Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Team Leader
6 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Head of Security
7 1 (4.00%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (8.00%) Cyberattack
4 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (4.00%) IoT
5 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (4.00%) PKI
5 1 (4.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
2 2 (8.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (44.00%) Risk Management
3 9 (36.00%) DevSecOps
3 9 (36.00%) Information Security
3 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (32.00%) Security Operations
5 7 (28.00%) DevOps
5 7 (28.00%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (28.00%) Roadmaps
5 7 (28.00%) SIEM
6 6 (24.00%) Incident Management
6 6 (24.00%) ITIL
6 6 (24.00%) Risk Assessment
6 6 (24.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 5 (20.00%) Analytics
7 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (20.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 5 (20.00%) SOAR
7 5 (20.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) CISM
2 2 (8.00%) CISSP
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (44.00%) NIST
2 10 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (20.00%) SOC 2
4 3 (12.00%) GDPR
4 3 (12.00%) NCSC
5 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) vSphere
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) SCCM
2 2 (8.00%) WSUS
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Apple
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco
3 1 (4.00%) Qualys