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 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 80 26 46
Rank change year-on-year -54 +20 +2
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 317 426 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.73% 9.27% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 9.83% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 141 146 140
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,280
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% +2.13%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £100,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

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 6,183 4,333 5,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.19% 94.34% 91.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,393 2,156 2,833
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,369 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 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 20 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 -79 173 £60,000 -14.29% 21
Edinburgh -1 95 £57,763 -0.41% 17
Aberdeen -19 17 £47,500 -32.14% 1
Aberdeenshire - 6 £45,000 - 2
North Lanarkshire - 5 £45,000 -
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Dundee -12 3 £55,380 +15.09%
Stirling - 3 £50,000 - 2
Highlands - 3 £60,000 -
Lanarkshire -5 2 £45,000 - 7
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £40,000 - 1
Falkirk - 2 £50,000 - 1
Fife -6 1 £60,000 +60.00%
Argyll and Bute - 1 - -
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 22 (6.94%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.31%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.42%) FileNet
4 10 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.95%) IIS
6 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.63%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.84%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (30.91%) AWS
2 61 (19.24%) Azure
3 51 (16.09%) SaaS
4 47 (14.83%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (11.36%) Amazon S3
6 35 (11.04%) GCP
7 31 (9.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 31 (9.78%) Datadog
8 26 (8.20%) Google Docs
9 22 (6.94%) Amazon SQS
9 22 (6.94%) Lucidchart
9 22 (6.94%) Miro
9 22 (6.94%) Slack
10 17 (5.36%) Entra ID
10 17 (5.36%) PaaS
11 14 (4.42%) IaaS
12 7 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (2.21%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.89%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.15%) Firewall
2 10 (3.15%) Network Security
3 7 (2.21%) WAN
4 6 (1.89%) DNS
4 6 (1.89%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.89%) VPN
5 5 (1.58%) DHCP
6 4 (1.26%) IMAP
6 4 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.26%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.95%) LAN
8 2 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.63%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.32%) Internet
9 1 (0.32%) RSVP
9 1 (0.32%) VLAN
9 1 (0.32%) Wireless
9 1 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.36%) Elasticsearch
2 26 (8.20%) Big Data
3 22 (6.94%) Hadoop
3 22 (6.94%) Redis
3 22 (6.94%) Scylla
4 17 (5.36%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.42%) Apache Cassandra
6 13 (4.10%) MySQL
7 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.95%) Tableau
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (0.63%) Power BI
8 2 (0.63%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 14 (4.42%) JUnit
2 3 (0.95%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 123 (38.80%) Finance
1 123 (38.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 121 (38.17%) Social Skills
3 96 (30.28%) Law
4 30 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.73%) Military
5 15 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (4.10%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.79%) Marketing
8 9 (2.84%) Banking
8 9 (2.84%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.52%) Legal
10 5 (1.58%) Retail
11 4 (1.26%) Billing
11 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.63%) Games
13 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 105 (33.12%) Software Engineer
2 46 (14.51%) Lead
3 44 (13.88%) Analyst
4 38 (11.99%) Senior
5 36 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (9.78%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 30 (9.46%) Principal Engineer
8 27 (8.52%) Principal Software Engineer
9 19 (5.99%) Architect
10 18 (5.68%) Security Engineer
11 17 (5.36%) Security Analyst
12 16 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (5.05%) AWS Software Engineer
12 16 (5.05%) Full Stack Engineer
12 16 (5.05%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 16 (5.05%) Java Engineer
12 16 (5.05%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (4.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 14 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
13 14 (4.42%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.36%) GraphQL
1 36 (11.36%) Kafka
2 31 (9.78%) OpenTelemetry
3 30 (9.46%) Spring
4 27 (8.52%) AngularJS
4 27 (8.52%) React
5 15 (4.73%) J2EE
6 14 (4.42%) CSS
6 14 (4.42%) Hibernate
6 14 (4.42%) HTML
6 14 (4.42%) JMS
6 14 (4.42%) jQuery
6 14 (4.42%) JSON
6 14 (4.42%) Node.js
6 14 (4.42%) REST
6 14 (4.42%) Spring Integration
6 14 (4.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 13 (4.10%) JPA
8 9 (2.84%) SAML
9 7 (2.21%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (17.98%) Public Cloud
2 56 (17.67%) Cloud Native
3 51 (16.09%) Algorithms
4 48 (15.14%) Management Information System
5 22 (6.94%) Data Structures
6 19 (5.99%) Operational Technology
7 16 (5.05%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (2.84%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.52%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.89%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.58%) Virtual Team
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
13 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.95%) Distributed Applications
13 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 51 (16.09%) Windows
2 34 (10.73%) Linux
3 24 (7.57%) Unix
4 14 (4.42%) Mac OS X
4 14 (4.42%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.89%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.58%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.63%) VMS
8 1 (0.32%) Android
8 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (35.33%) Software Engineering
2 105 (33.12%) Agile
3 99 (31.23%) SDLC
4 88 (27.76%) Artificial Intelligence
4 88 (27.76%) Machine Learning
5 83 (26.18%) CI/CD
6 80 (25.24%) Community of Practice
6 80 (25.24%) Operational Stability
7 65 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (16.09%) Identity Access Management
10 44 (13.88%) Visualisation
11 43 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 42 (13.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 42 (13.25%) Roadmaps
12 42 (13.25%) Threat Intelligence
13 37 (11.67%) Security Operations
13 37 (11.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 36 (11.36%) Analytics
15 34 (10.73%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 106 (33.44%) Java
2 26 (8.20%) Python
3 22 (6.94%) Bash
3 22 (6.94%) Go
3 22 (6.94%) Scala
3 22 (6.94%) SQL
4 14 (4.42%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.42%) TypeScript
5 11 (3.47%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (11.99%) CISSP
2 34 (10.73%) CISM
3 32 (10.09%) Degree
4 15 (4.73%) GCIA
4 15 (4.73%) GCIH
4 15 (4.73%) Security Cleared
5 14 (4.42%) GREM
5 14 (4.42%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.89%) CCNA
8 4 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.26%) SSCP
9 3 (0.95%) CCNP
9 3 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.63%) CISA
10 2 (0.63%) ISACA
10 2 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.46%) NIST
2 22 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (4.73%) GDPR
4 14 (4.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.52%) NCSC
6 5 (1.58%) ISO 22301
6 5 (1.58%) SLA
7 4 (1.26%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.95%) 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 (0.32%) COBIT
10 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (6.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.95%) Docker
2 3 (0.95%) RACF
3 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 56 (17.67%) Kubernetes
2 45 (14.20%) Terraform
3 31 (9.78%) Grafana
4 13 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.26%) SCCM
6 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.63%) WSUS
8 1 (0.32%) Ansible
8 1 (0.32%) Nessus
Vendors
1 63 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.93%) Dell
3 39 (12.30%) Oracle
4 32 (10.09%) Splunk
5 31 (9.78%) Dynatrace
5 31 (9.78%) Google
6 16 (5.05%) Databricks
7 10 (3.15%) Cisco
7 10 (3.15%) IFS
8 9 (2.84%) Epicor
8 9 (2.84%) JD Edwards
9 7 (2.21%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.58%) Sophos
11 4 (1.26%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.26%) ConnectWise
12 3 (0.95%) VMware
13 2 (0.63%) Apple
13 2 (0.63%) Citrix
13 2 (0.63%) Meraki
14 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow