Data Security Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Security
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 91 97
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +57
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 5 5 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.47% 0.45% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.47% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 9
10th Percentile - - £57,933
25th Percentile - £80,000 £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £85,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year - +6.74% -6.32%
75th Percentile - £100,000 £84,056
90th Percentile - - £134,356
Scotland median annual salary - £80,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year - +0.46% +59.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data 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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 910 1,065 963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.45% 96.21% 91.80%
Number of salaries quoted 390 405 777
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -8.00% +2.46%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Data Security job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Data Security
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Security

Data Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) dbt
1 4 (80.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Insider Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Asset Management
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Coaching
2 4 (80.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Product Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft