Security Operations Centre Job Trends in Edinburgh

Security Operations Centre
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Operations Centre in permanent job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations Centre over the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 91 101
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +41
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations Centre 2 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.17% 0.11% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.64% 0.28% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £61,252 - £47,800
25th Percentile £61,877 £41,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,210 £42,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +51.08% -37.04% +67.26%
75th Percentile £65,752 £43,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £65,902 - -
Scotland median annual salary £63,419 £42,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +49.22% -37.04% +67.26%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

Security Operations Centre falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 312 354 450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 25.74% 38.39% 33.16%
Number of salaries quoted 156 177 353
10th Percentile £27,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -9.45% +5.83%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,840 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% -6.49%

Security Operations Centre
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Security Operations Centre job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Security Operations Centre
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Security Operations Centre.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Security Operations Centre

Security Operations Centre
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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Operations Team Leader
1 2 (100.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Log Aggregation
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) SLA