Data Security Jobs in Scotland

Data Security
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Security over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 212 216
Rank change year-on-year -55 +4 -81
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 15 10 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.22% 0.21% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.22% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 13
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,850 £25,488
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,500 £30,442
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £48,525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -17.57% +2.16%
75th Percentile £77,500 £48,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £51,567 -
UK median annual salary £64,412 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.05% +0.87% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Security 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 6,240 4,462 5,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.93% 94.23% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,423 2,247 2,772
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,392 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +10.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Scotland

Data Security
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Security in Scotland.

Salary trend for Data Security in Scotland

Data Security
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Security in Scotland

Data Security
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +39 6 £36,500 -9.88%
Glasgow -99 6 £75,000 - 2
West Lothian - 3 £30,000 -
Data Security
UK

Data Security
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 8 (53.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) Power Platform
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (33.33%) PowerApps
4 4 (26.67%) IaaS
4 4 (26.67%) PaaS
4 4 (26.67%) SaaS
5 3 (20.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (13.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Power BI
2 5 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
General
1 5 (33.33%) Games
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Publishing
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Azure Data Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Data Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Business Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SharePoint Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Structures
2 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Data Migration
1 7 (46.67%) Migration
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
2 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (40.00%) Data Privacy
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 5 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) ETL
4 4 (26.67%) Data Encryption
4 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
5 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Data Management
5 3 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (20.00%) Line Management
5 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft