Data Security Jobs in Edinburgh

Data Security
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Security over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 104 134
Rank change year-on-year +20 +30 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Security 6 6 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.66% 0.40% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.45% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £47,500 - £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £35,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £36,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +57.53% -38.68% +133.44%
75th Percentile £100,000 £50,750 £62,833
90th Percentile - £75,050 -
Scotland median annual salary £56,250 £43,250 £44,250
% change year-on-year +30.06% -2.26% -10.18%

All Process and 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 891 1,333 1,927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.48% 89.52% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 403 935 1,121
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £44,033
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £79,648 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in Edinburgh

Data Security
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Data Security in Edinburgh

Data Security
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Security in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Security in Edinburgh

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Neo4j
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Application Security
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
2 1 (16.67%) Data Science
2 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) People Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Cypher
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (16.67%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Sage