Threat Detection Jobs in Scotland

Threat Detection
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 208 242
Rank change year-on-year -68 +34 -53
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 6 7 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.088% 0.16% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.17% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 23
10th Percentile £51,325 - -
25th Percentile £51,438 £56,219 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £85,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +77.08% -
75th Percentile £95,000 - -
90th Percentile £113,000 - -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £68,823 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.08% +14.71% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Threat Detection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,115 4,054 5,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.41% 94.68% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 2,031 2,895
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Threat Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Threat Detection in Scotland

Threat Detection
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Threat Detection in Scotland

Threat Detection
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Threat Detection in Scotland

Threat Detection
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Threat Detection 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
Edinburgh +23 4 £66,500 -21.76% 3
Glasgow - 2 £86,250 -
Threat Detection
UK

Threat Detection
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 1 (16.67%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
2 1 (16.67%) ADO
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) Java EE
2 1 (16.67%) OpenJDK
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Cyberattack
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) OOP
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 22301
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) CyberTech
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft