Cybersecurity Jobs in Scotland

Cybersecurity
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 25 44
Rank change year-on-year -57 +19 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 318 420 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.74% 9.09% 5.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 9.64% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 141 148 129
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,700
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,512 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% -0.79% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +5.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,203 4,358 5,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.46% 94.29% 90.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,419 2,188 2,782
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,250 £41,938 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% +10.20%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,449 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Scotland

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Scotland

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Scotland

Cybersecurity
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 May 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 -75 169 £60,000 -14.29% 18
Edinburgh +4 100 £59,526 +2.63% 14
Aberdeen -17 18 £47,500 -32.14% 2
Aberdeenshire - 6 £45,000 - 2
North Lanarkshire - 5 £45,000 -
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Dundee -12 3 £55,380 +15.09%
Highlands - 3 £60,000 -
Lanarkshire -4 2 £45,000 - 9
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £40,000 - 2
Stirling - 2 £48,000 - 2
Fife -8 1 £60,000 +60.00%
Falkirk - 1 £50,000 - 1
Argyll and Bute - 1 - - 3
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (7.55%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.29%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.40%) FileNet
4 10 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.63%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) Confluence
6 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.83%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (31.45%) AWS
2 61 (19.18%) Azure
3 58 (18.24%) SaaS
4 47 (14.78%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (11.64%) Amazon S3
5 37 (11.64%) GCP
6 31 (9.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 31 (9.75%) Datadog
7 27 (8.49%) Google Docs
8 23 (7.23%) Amazon SQS
8 23 (7.23%) Lucidchart
8 23 (7.23%) Miro
8 23 (7.23%) Slack
9 19 (5.97%) PaaS
10 16 (5.03%) IaaS
11 15 (4.72%) Entra ID
12 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (2.20%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.89%) ChatGPT
14 6 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.12%) Firewall
2 10 (3.14%) Network Security
3 7 (2.20%) WAN
4 6 (1.89%) DNS
4 6 (1.89%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.89%) VPN
5 5 (1.57%) DHCP
6 4 (1.26%) IMAP
6 4 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.26%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (0.94%) LAN
8 2 (0.63%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.31%) Internet
9 1 (0.31%) RSVP
9 1 (0.31%) VLAN
9 1 (0.31%) Wireless
9 1 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.64%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (8.81%) Big Data
3 24 (7.55%) Hadoop
4 23 (7.23%) Redis
4 23 (7.23%) Scylla
5 19 (5.97%) NoSQL
6 15 (4.72%) Apache Cassandra
7 13 (4.09%) MySQL
8 5 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.26%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.94%) Tableau
11 2 (0.63%) Power BI
12 1 (0.31%) Apache Accumulo
12 1 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.31%) Flink
12 1 (0.31%) HBase
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database 10g
12 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (4.72%) JUnit
2 3 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 125 (39.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 122 (38.36%) Social Skills
3 121 (38.05%) Finance
4 96 (30.19%) Law
5 29 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.72%) Military
6 15 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (4.09%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.77%) Marketing
9 9 (2.83%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.20%) Banking
11 5 (1.57%) Legal
11 5 (1.57%) Retail
12 4 (1.26%) Billing
12 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.63%) Games
14 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.31%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 110 (34.59%) Software Engineer
2 46 (14.47%) Lead
3 40 (12.58%) Analyst
4 37 (11.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 37 (11.64%) Senior
5 35 (11.01%) Principal Engineer
6 32 (10.06%) Principal Software Engineer
7 31 (9.75%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 20 (6.29%) Architect
9 19 (5.97%) Security Engineer
10 16 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
10 16 (5.03%) AWS Software Engineer
10 16 (5.03%) Full Stack Engineer
10 16 (5.03%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 16 (5.03%) Java Engineer
10 16 (5.03%) Java Software Engineer
10 16 (5.03%) Security Analyst
11 14 (4.40%) Lead Software Engineer
11 14 (4.40%) Support Analyst
11 14 (4.40%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.95%) Kafka
2 37 (11.64%) GraphQL
3 31 (9.75%) OpenTelemetry
4 30 (9.43%) Spring
5 27 (8.49%) AngularJS
5 27 (8.49%) React
6 15 (4.72%) J2EE
7 14 (4.40%) CSS
7 14 (4.40%) Hibernate
7 14 (4.40%) HTML
7 14 (4.40%) JMS
7 14 (4.40%) jQuery
7 14 (4.40%) JSON
7 14 (4.40%) Node.js
7 14 (4.40%) REST
7 14 (4.40%) Spring Integration
7 14 (4.40%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 13 (4.09%) JPA
9 9 (2.83%) SAML
10 7 (2.20%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 60 (18.87%) Cloud Native
2 57 (17.92%) Public Cloud
3 52 (16.35%) Algorithms
4 45 (14.15%) Management Information System
5 23 (7.23%) Data Structures
6 19 (5.97%) Operational Technology
7 16 (5.03%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.52%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.52%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.20%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (1.26%) Blockchain
12 4 (1.26%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (1.26%) Cyberattack
12 4 (1.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.26%) IoT
12 4 (1.26%) Mainframe
13 3 (0.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.98%) Windows
2 37 (11.64%) Linux
3 25 (7.86%) Unix
4 15 (4.72%) Windows Server
5 14 (4.40%) Mac OS X
6 9 (2.83%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.57%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.63%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Android
9 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (36.79%) Software Engineering
2 106 (33.33%) Agile
3 98 (30.82%) SDLC
4 90 (28.30%) Machine Learning
5 89 (27.99%) Artificial Intelligence
6 84 (26.42%) CI/CD
7 80 (25.16%) Community of Practice
7 80 (25.16%) Operational Stability
8 64 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (15.09%) Identity Access Management
11 47 (14.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 47 (14.78%) Threat Intelligence
12 44 (13.84%) Visualisation
13 43 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 40 (12.58%) Roadmaps
15 39 (12.26%) Analytics
16 37 (11.64%) Vulnerability Remediation
17 34 (10.69%) Continuous Delivery
18 33 (10.38%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 108 (33.96%) Java
2 27 (8.49%) Python
3 24 (7.55%) Bash
3 24 (7.55%) Go
3 24 (7.55%) Scala
4 18 (5.66%) SQL
5 14 (4.40%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.40%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.83%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (11.95%) CISSP
2 34 (10.69%) CISM
3 31 (9.75%) Degree
4 15 (4.72%) GCIA
4 15 (4.72%) GCIH
4 15 (4.72%) Security Cleared
5 14 (4.40%) GREM
5 14 (4.40%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.89%) CCNA
9 4 (1.26%) CCNP
9 4 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.94%) SSCP
11 2 (0.63%) ISACA
11 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.75%) NIST
2 22 (6.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.03%) GDPR
4 14 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.52%) NCSC
6 5 (1.57%) SLA
7 4 (1.26%) ISO 22301
7 4 (1.26%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.63%) DICOM
9 2 (0.63%) GRC
9 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.63%) QA
10 1 (0.31%) COBIT
10 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.26%) Docker
3 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 57 (17.92%) Kubernetes
2 44 (13.84%) Terraform
3 31 (9.75%) Grafana
4 13 (4.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.26%) SCCM
6 3 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.63%) WSUS
8 1 (0.31%) Nessus
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 60 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 46 (14.47%) Dell
3 38 (11.95%) Oracle
4 32 (10.06%) Google
4 32 (10.06%) Splunk
5 31 (9.75%) Dynatrace
6 16 (5.03%) Databricks
7 11 (3.46%) Cisco
8 10 (3.14%) IFS
9 9 (2.83%) Epicor
9 9 (2.83%) JD Edwards
10 5 (1.57%) Sophos
11 4 (1.26%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.26%) ConnectWise
11 4 (1.26%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.94%) VMware
13 2 (0.63%) Apple
13 2 (0.63%) Citrix
13 2 (0.63%) Meraki
14 1 (0.31%) Aruba