IT Security Engineer Jobs in Scotland

IT Security Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median IT Security Engineer salary in Scotland is £49,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 231 237
Rank change year-on-year -50 +6 -55
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 4 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.060% 0.042% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.046% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45,000 £73,565 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £75,554 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.81% - -
75th Percentile £53,750 £77,542 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £57,483
% change year-on-year +6.19% -1.71% +14.97%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,451 4,339 5,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.91% 90.36% 96.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,636 2,334 2,972
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,193
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £65,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,308 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.15% - +9.09%

IT Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Engineer in Scotland

IT Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for IT Security Engineer in Scotland

IT Security Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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
Glasgow - 3 £52,500 -
Stirling - 1 £46,000 - 1
IT Security Engineer
UK

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, IT Security Engineer 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 Scotland region featuring IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) SOAR
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Server Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) SOAR
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix