Security Specialist Jobs in Edinburgh

Security Specialist
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Security Specialist salary in Edinburgh is £66,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 136 145
Rank change year-on-year +22 +9 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Specialist 3 16 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.19% 0.73% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.77% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 4
10th Percentile £58,950 £52,000 £38,707
25th Percentile £61,125 £55,000 £43,143
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £58,000 £45,607
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% +27.17% -6.92%
75th Percentile £69,625 £60,000 £48,955
90th Percentile £71,050 - £54,982
Scotland median annual salary £66,000 £55,000 £45,607
% change year-on-year +20.00% +20.60% -6.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,477 2,084 2,239
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.91% 95.51% 97.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,045 1,223 1,397
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,331 £33,488
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Security Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Security Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Security Specialist in Edinburgh

Security Specialist
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Security Specialist in Edinburgh

Security Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Security Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Security Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Law
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (33.33%) COBIT
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) OpenID
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) LDAP
3 1 (33.33%) Sun
3 1 (33.33%) CA
3 1 (33.33%) SAML
3 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System

Security Specialist Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (66.67%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) COBIT
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 31000
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CASB
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CA
1 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (33.33%) LogRhythm
1 1 (33.33%) Okta
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Sun
1 1 (33.33%) Trustwave