Security Monitoring Job Trends in Edinburgh

Security Monitoring
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Security Monitoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - 105
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.25% - 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £35,500 - -
25th Percentile £41,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £100,000
75th Percentile £61,751 - -
90th Percentile £64,302 - -
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £69,674
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.06% +63.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Security Monitoring 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 960 961 1,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 81.01% 97.96% 90.79%
Number of salaries quoted 497 433 909
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -2.37%
75th Percentile £73,500 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -10.26%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Security Monitoring job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Security Monitoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Security Monitoring

Security Monitoring
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Monitoring in Edinburgh

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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 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
General
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Team Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Log Aggregation
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Pega