Information Security Job Trends in Aberdeenshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
Scotland > Aberdeenshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Aberdeenshire requiring Information Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Aberdeenshire 6.67% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median annual salary £90,000 £61,250 £49,995
% change year-on-year +46.94% +22.51% -23.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Aberdeenshire

Information Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Aberdeenshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9 8 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Aberdeenshire 60.00% 27.59% 57.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 36
10th Percentile - £45,500 £24,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,875 £27,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £62,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +42.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £53,750 £68,750 £47,500
90th Percentile - - £55,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -8.70%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Aberdeenshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Information Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Aberdeenshire.

Information Security job vacancy trend in Aberdeenshire

Information Security
Salary Trend in Aberdeenshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeenshire citing Information Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeenshire citing Information Security

Information Security
Job Locations in Aberdeenshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the Aberdeenshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 2026. 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
Westhill - 1 - - 1
Information Security
Scotland

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Aberdeenshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft