Cybersecurity Jobs in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 35 38
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 95 179 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.41% 8.87% 7.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.16% 9.26% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 34 85 89
10th Percentile £26,350 £35,000 £38,526
25th Percentile £31,375 £42,874 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,763 £58,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -6.07% -19.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,064 £77,500 £105,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% -0.79% +2.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Cybersecurity 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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,327 1,933 2,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.54% 95.74% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 930 1,121 1,448
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,597 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.61%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 22 (23.16%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.05%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (48.42%) SaaS
2 28 (29.47%) GCP
3 26 (27.37%) AWS
3 26 (27.37%) Google Docs
4 22 (23.16%) Amazon S3
4 22 (23.16%) Amazon SQS
4 22 (23.16%) Lucidchart
4 22 (23.16%) Miro
4 22 (23.16%) Slack
5 17 (17.89%) Azure
6 11 (11.58%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (8.42%) Entra ID
8 6 (6.32%) PaaS
9 4 (4.21%) OneDrive
10 3 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.16%) GitHub
10 3 (3.16%) IaaS
11 1 (1.05%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.05%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) WAN
2 4 (4.21%) Firewall
3 2 (2.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.05%) DHCP
4 1 (1.05%) DNS
4 1 (1.05%) Internet
4 1 (1.05%) LAN
4 1 (1.05%) Network Security
4 1 (1.05%) VLAN
4 1 (1.05%) VPN
4 1 (1.05%) Wireless
4 1 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.16%) Big Data
1 22 (23.16%) Elasticsearch
1 22 (23.16%) Hadoop
1 22 (23.16%) Redis
1 22 (23.16%) Scylla
2 3 (3.16%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 41 (43.16%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (15.79%) Finance
4 14 (14.74%) Military
5 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.32%) Banking
7 5 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.21%) Billing
8 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.11%) Retail
10 1 (1.05%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.05%) Games
10 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (28.42%) Principal Engineer
1 27 (28.42%) Principal Software Engineer
1 27 (28.42%) Software Engineer
2 20 (21.05%) Analyst
3 14 (14.74%) Senior
3 14 (14.74%) Support Analyst
3 14 (14.74%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 9 (9.47%) Support Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) IT Support
6 6 (6.32%) Consultant
7 5 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 5 (5.26%) IT Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Security Consultant
7 5 (5.26%) Security Manager
7 5 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Senior Windows Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Support Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.16%) GraphQL
1 22 (23.16%) Kafka
2 5 (5.26%) LDAP
3 4 (4.21%) OpenID
4 2 (2.11%) Web Services
5 1 (1.05%) J2EE
5 1 (1.05%) OAuth
5 1 (1.05%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.05%) REST
5 1 (1.05%) SAML
5 1 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.16%) Algorithms
1 22 (23.16%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.32%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.26%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.21%) Cyber Security Posture
4 4 (4.21%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.16%) Blockchain
5 3 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.16%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.11%) PACS
7 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.05%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 30 (31.58%) Windows
2 27 (28.42%) Linux
3 22 (23.16%) Unix
4 14 (14.74%) Mac OS X
5 6 (6.32%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.21%) Windows 10
6 4 (4.21%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.05%) Android
7 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (43.16%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 41 (43.16%) Threat Intelligence
2 34 (35.79%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (29.47%) Software Engineering
4 27 (28.42%) Computer Security
4 27 (28.42%) Data Science
5 22 (23.16%) High Availability
5 22 (23.16%) User Experience
5 22 (23.16%) UX Research
6 21 (22.11%) Customer Service
7 19 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 19 (20.00%) Security Operations
8 17 (17.89%) DevOps
9 16 (16.84%) ITIL
10 15 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
10 15 (15.79%) Open Source
11 14 (14.74%) Incident Management
11 14 (14.74%) Malware Analysis
11 14 (14.74%) Roadmaps
11 14 (14.74%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.32%) Python
2 23 (24.21%) Java
3 22 (23.16%) Bash
3 22 (23.16%) Go
3 22 (23.16%) Scala
4 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (17.89%) Degree
2 16 (16.84%) CISM
2 16 (16.84%) CISSP
3 14 (14.74%) GCIA
3 14 (14.74%) GCIH
3 14 (14.74%) GREM
4 1 (1.05%) CISA
4 1 (1.05%) CRISC
4 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.05%) MCSE
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.05%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) GDPR
2 7 (7.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (6.32%) NIST
4 5 (5.26%) NCSC
5 4 (4.21%) SLA
6 2 (2.11%) DICOM
6 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.05%) QA
7 1 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.16%) Docker
3 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.16%) Terraform
4 1 (1.05%) SCCM
4 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.05%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (43.16%) Dell
2 30 (31.58%) Google
3 13 (13.68%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.21%) BeyondTrust
4 4 (4.21%) ConnectWise
4 4 (4.21%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.11%) Cisco
5 2 (2.11%) VMware
6 1 (1.05%) Apple
6 1 (1.05%) Aruba
6 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.05%) Citrix
6 1 (1.05%) Meraki
6 1 (1.05%) Okta
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle
6 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.05%) Splunk