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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 25 48
Rank change year-on-year -56 +23 -6
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 318 422 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.67% 9.44% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 10.00% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 150 144 142
10th Percentile £32,250 £35,000 £38,367
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,384 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.06% -0.79% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,125 £77,500 £100,000
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 6,212 4,221 5,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 91.15% 94.45% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,458 2,081 2,845
10th Percentile £28,425 £32,000 £31,133
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,800
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 29 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 29 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 -74 173 £60,000 -14.29% 24
Edinburgh -5 92 £50,000 -13.79% 18
Aberdeen -20 17 £47,500 -30.91% 3
Aberdeenshire - 10 £45,000 - 3
North Lanarkshire - 5 £45,000 -
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Dundee -11 3 £55,380 +15.09%
Stirling - 3 £50,000 - 1
Highlands - 3 £60,000 -
Lanarkshire - 2 £45,000 - 8
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £40,000 - 1
Falkirk - 2 £50,000 - 1
Fife -8 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 21 (6.60%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.03%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.40%) FileNet
4 10 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.94%) IIS
6 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.63%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.31%) Confluence
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 89 (27.99%) AWS
2 58 (18.24%) Azure
3 47 (14.78%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (11.64%) SaaS
5 31 (9.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 31 (9.75%) Datadog
6 30 (9.43%) Amazon S3
7 26 (8.18%) GCP
8 20 (6.29%) Google Docs
9 18 (5.66%) Entra ID
10 16 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (5.03%) Lucidchart
10 16 (5.03%) Miro
10 16 (5.03%) Slack
11 14 (4.40%) PaaS
12 11 (3.46%) IaaS
13 7 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.20%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (1.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (9.75%) Firewall
2 11 (3.46%) 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%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.94%) LAN
8 2 (0.63%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.63%) Wireless
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.31%) Internet
9 1 (0.31%) RSVP
9 1 (0.31%) VLAN
9 1 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.43%) Elasticsearch
2 20 (6.29%) Big Data
3 16 (5.03%) Hadoop
3 16 (5.03%) Redis
3 16 (5.03%) Scylla
4 15 (4.72%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.40%) Apache Cassandra
6 13 (4.09%) MySQL
7 3 (0.94%) 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 (0.31%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 14 (4.40%) JUnit
2 3 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 122 (38.36%) Finance
2 119 (37.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 113 (35.53%) Social Skills
4 95 (29.87%) Law
5 31 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.72%) Military
6 15 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (4.40%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.77%) Marketing
9 10 (3.14%) Legal
10 9 (2.83%) Banking
10 9 (2.83%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.57%) Retail
12 4 (1.26%) Billing
12 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.26%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.63%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.63%) Games
14 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (29.25%) Software Engineer
2 49 (15.41%) Lead
3 46 (14.47%) Analyst
4 37 (11.64%) Senior
5 35 (11.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (9.75%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 19 (5.97%) Principal Engineer
8 18 (5.66%) Architect
9 17 (5.35%) Security Analyst
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%) Principal Software Engineer
10 16 (5.03%) Security Engineer
11 14 (4.40%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 14 (4.40%) Lead Software Engineer
11 14 (4.40%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.75%) OpenTelemetry
2 30 (9.43%) GraphQL
2 30 (9.43%) Kafka
2 30 (9.43%) Spring
3 27 (8.49%) AngularJS
3 27 (8.49%) React
4 15 (4.72%) J2EE
5 14 (4.40%) CSS
5 14 (4.40%) Hibernate
5 14 (4.40%) HTML
5 14 (4.40%) JMS
5 14 (4.40%) jQuery
5 14 (4.40%) JSON
5 14 (4.40%) Node.js
5 14 (4.40%) REST
5 14 (4.40%) Spring Integration
5 14 (4.40%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 13 (4.09%) JPA
7 9 (2.83%) SAML
8 7 (2.20%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.61%) Public Cloud
2 51 (16.04%) Cloud Native
3 50 (15.72%) Management Information System
4 45 (14.15%) Algorithms
5 22 (6.92%) Operational Technology
6 16 (5.03%) Cyber Threat
6 16 (5.03%) Data Structures
7 11 (3.46%) Security Posture
8 9 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.57%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.26%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (1.26%) Cyberattack
11 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.26%) IoT
12 3 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.94%) FMCG
12 3 (0.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 46 (14.47%) Windows
2 30 (9.43%) Linux
3 22 (6.92%) Unix
4 14 (4.40%) Mac OS X
5 13 (4.09%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.57%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.63%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (31.45%) Software Engineering
2 99 (31.13%) Agile
3 98 (30.82%) SDLC
4 87 (27.36%) Machine Learning
5 86 (27.04%) Artificial Intelligence
6 83 (26.10%) CI/CD
7 79 (24.84%) Community of Practice
7 79 (24.84%) Operational Stability
8 60 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 58 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
11 44 (13.84%) Visualisation
12 43 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 42 (13.21%) Roadmaps
14 39 (12.26%) Security Operations
15 37 (11.64%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 34 (10.69%) Continuous Delivery
16 34 (10.69%) Information Security
17 33 (10.38%) Risk Management
18 32 (10.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 99 (31.13%) Java
2 24 (7.55%) SQL
3 20 (6.29%) Python
4 16 (5.03%) Bash
4 16 (5.03%) Go
4 16 (5.03%) Scala
5 14 (4.40%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.40%) TypeScript
6 12 (3.77%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (11.64%) CISSP
2 33 (10.38%) CISM
2 33 (10.38%) Degree
3 15 (4.72%) GCIA
3 15 (4.72%) GCIH
3 15 (4.72%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.40%) GREM
4 14 (4.40%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.57%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.57%) CCNA
7 4 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (1.26%) SSCP
8 3 (0.94%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.63%) CCNP
9 2 (0.63%) CISA
9 2 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.12%) NIST
2 21 (6.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
3 14 (4.40%) GDPR
4 8 (2.52%) NCSC
5 5 (1.57%) ISO 22301
5 5 (1.57%) SLA
6 4 (1.26%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 2 (0.63%) DICOM
8 2 (0.63%) GRC
8 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.63%) QA
9 1 (0.31%) COBIT
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.31%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (6.60%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.57%) RACF
3 3 (0.94%) Docker
4 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 49 (15.41%) 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%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.63%) WSUS
8 1 (0.31%) Ansible
8 1 (0.31%) Nessus
Vendors
1 63 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 39 (12.26%) Oracle
3 32 (10.06%) Splunk
4 31 (9.75%) Dynatrace
5 30 (9.43%) Dell
6 25 (7.86%) Google
7 16 (5.03%) Databricks
8 10 (3.14%) IFS
9 9 (2.83%) Cisco
9 9 (2.83%) CyberArk
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
12 3 (0.94%) VMware
13 2 (0.63%) Apple
13 2 (0.63%) Citrix
14 1 (0.31%) Atlassian
14 1 (0.31%) Salesforce