Cybersecurity Jobs in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 34 39
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +18
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 95 173 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.34% 8.82% 7.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.12% 9.22% 8.43%
Number of salaries quoted 39 84 90
10th Percentile £25,750 £35,000 £38,526
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -6.07% -25.15%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,013 £77,500 £105,000
Scotland median annual salary £51,750 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.06% -0.79% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,334 1,876 2,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.05% 95.62% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 934 1,082 1,451
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,821 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 19 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.32%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.05%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (42.11%) SaaS
2 24 (25.26%) GCP
3 23 (24.21%) Google Docs
4 22 (23.16%) AWS
5 19 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 19 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
5 19 (20.00%) Lucidchart
5 19 (20.00%) Miro
5 19 (20.00%) Slack
6 16 (16.84%) Azure
7 12 (12.63%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (8.42%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.26%) PaaS
10 4 (4.21%) OneDrive
11 3 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.16%) GitHub
12 2 (2.11%) IaaS
13 1 (1.05%) Google Workspace
13 1 (1.05%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) Firewall
1 5 (5.26%) WAN
2 2 (2.11%) Network Security
2 2 (2.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.11%) Wireless
3 1 (1.05%) DHCP
3 1 (1.05%) DNS
3 1 (1.05%) Internet
3 1 (1.05%) LAN
3 1 (1.05%) VLAN
3 1 (1.05%) VPN
3 1 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.00%) Big Data
1 19 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 19 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 19 (20.00%) Redis
1 19 (20.00%) Scylla
2 2 (2.11%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 38 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (14.74%) Finance
3 14 (14.74%) Military
4 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Banking
5 5 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Billing
6 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.05%) Games
8 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (23.16%) Principal Engineer
1 22 (23.16%) Principal Software Engineer
1 22 (23.16%) Software Engineer
2 20 (21.05%) Analyst
3 14 (14.74%) Support Analyst
3 14 (14.74%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 12 (12.63%) Senior
5 9 (9.47%) Support Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) IT Support
7 7 (7.37%) Administrator
7 7 (7.37%) Consultant
8 5 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 5 (5.26%) IT Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Security Consultant
8 5 (5.26%) Security Manager
9 4 (4.21%) Operational Security Manager
9 4 (4.21%) Security Operations Manager
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Technical Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 19 (20.00%) Kafka
2 5 (5.26%) LDAP
3 3 (3.16%) OpenID
4 2 (2.11%) Web Services
5 1 (1.05%) J2EE
5 1 (1.05%) OAuth
5 1 (1.05%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.05%) REST
5 1 (1.05%) SAML
5 1 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 19 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.32%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.21%) Cyber Security Posture
4 4 (4.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.21%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.16%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.11%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.11%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.11%) PACS
6 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 29 (30.53%) Windows
2 26 (27.37%) Linux
3 21 (22.11%) Unix
4 14 (14.74%) Mac OS X
5 4 (4.21%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.21%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.21%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.05%) Android
6 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.89%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 36 (37.89%) Threat Intelligence
2 31 (32.63%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (24.21%) Software Engineering
4 22 (23.16%) Computer Security
4 22 (23.16%) Data Science
5 20 (21.05%) Customer Service
6 19 (20.00%) High Availability
6 19 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 19 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 19 (20.00%) User Experience
6 19 (20.00%) UX Research
7 17 (17.89%) DevOps
8 16 (16.84%) ITIL
9 15 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
9 15 (15.79%) Open Source
10 14 (14.74%) Incident Management
10 14 (14.74%) Malware Analysis
10 14 (14.74%) Resource Management
10 14 (14.74%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.16%) Python
2 20 (21.05%) Java
3 19 (20.00%) Bash
3 19 (20.00%) Go
3 19 (20.00%) Scala
4 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (17.89%) Degree
2 16 (16.84%) CISM
2 16 (16.84%) CISSP
3 14 (14.74%) GCIA
3 14 (14.74%) GCIH
3 14 (14.74%) GREM
4 1 (1.05%) CISA
4 1 (1.05%) CRISC
4 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.05%) MCSE
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.05%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) GDPR
2 7 (7.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (6.32%) NIST
4 5 (5.26%) NCSC
5 4 (4.21%) SLA
6 2 (2.11%) DICOM
6 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.05%) QA
7 1 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.16%) Docker
3 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (23.16%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.16%) Terraform
4 1 (1.05%) SCCM
4 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.05%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (37.89%) Dell
2 27 (28.42%) Google
3 13 (13.68%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.21%) BeyondTrust
4 4 (4.21%) ConnectWise
4 4 (4.21%) CyberArk
5 3 (3.16%) Cisco
6 2 (2.11%) VMware
7 1 (1.05%) Apple
7 1 (1.05%) Aruba
7 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.05%) Citrix
7 1 (1.05%) Juniper
7 1 (1.05%) Meraki
7 1 (1.05%) Okta
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle
7 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) Splunk