Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in Scotland is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 210 251
Rank change year-on-year -69 +41 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 3 5 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.044% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.13% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile £48,250 £41,750 £51,750
25th Percentile £53,125 £42,500 £55,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £71,250 £63,750 £68,125
90th Percentile £75,750 £78,750 £74,950
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +21.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 6,634 3,842 6,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.72% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,931 2,088 3,091
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Scotland

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Scotland

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in Scotland

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -98 2 £67,500 +50.00% 2
Stirling - 1 £46,000 -
Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (33.33%) SCADA
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Server Patching
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (33.33%) Data Encryption
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Server Management
3 1 (33.33%) Server Patching
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft