Vulnerability Management Jobs in Scotland

Vulnerability Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Management 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 257 124 142
Rank change year-on-year -133 +18 +20
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 25 104 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 2.20% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 2.33% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 18 11 28
10th Percentile £38,793 £45,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £46,495 £50,015 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -0.90% +25.21%
75th Percentile £81,875 £60,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £142,500 - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Vulnerability Management 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%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in Scotland

Vulnerability Management
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Management in Scotland.

Salary trend for Vulnerability Management in Scotland

Vulnerability Management
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Management in Scotland

Vulnerability Management
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management 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
Glasgow -127 18 £70,000 +33.33% 1
Edinburgh +9 4 £48,507 -19.16% 1
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £40,000 -
Vulnerability Management
UK

Vulnerability Management
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 10 (40.00%) Azure
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (8.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) IaaS
4 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Network Security
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) LAN
2 2 (8.00%) WAN
3 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 12 (48.00%) Finance
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Marketing
3 5 (20.00%) Law
3 5 (20.00%) Legal
4 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Games
6 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Risk Manager
3 4 (16.00%) Technology Risk Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Centre Team Leader
4 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Team Leader
4 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (4.00%) Head of Security
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
1 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) IoT
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (4.00%) PKI
4 1 (4.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
2 2 (8.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 9 (36.00%) Information Security
4 8 (32.00%) DevSecOps
4 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (32.00%) SIEM
5 7 (28.00%) DevOps
5 7 (28.00%) Roadmaps
5 7 (28.00%) Security Operations
6 6 (24.00%) Cloud Security
6 6 (24.00%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (24.00%) Incident Management
6 6 (24.00%) ITIL
6 6 (24.00%) Risk Assessment
6 6 (24.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (20.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 5 (20.00%) Use Case
8 4 (16.00%) Analytics
8 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) CISM
2 2 (8.00%) CISSP
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (36.00%) NIST
2 4 (16.00%) SOC 2
3 3 (12.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (8.00%) GDPR
4 2 (8.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) vSphere
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) SCCM
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.00%) WSUS
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) CASB
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Apple
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco
3 1 (4.00%) CA
3 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.00%) LogRhythm
3 1 (4.00%) Qualys
3 1 (4.00%) Sun
3 1 (4.00%) Trustwave