Cloud Security Job Trends in Glasgow

Cloud Security
Scotland > Glasgow

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 57 164
Rank change year-on-year +8 +107 -76
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 9 4 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.15% 0.72% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 0.77% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 17
10th Percentile £62,500 £76,250 -
25th Percentile £68,125 £81,875 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £92,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +54.17% -17.24%
75th Percentile - £105,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £109,500 £105,000
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £95,000 £64,724
% change year-on-year -26.32% +46.78% -1.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Cloud 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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 587 522 2,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 74.97% 94.39% 96.55%
Number of salaries quoted 380 232 642
10th Percentile £29,363 £35,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -8.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £101,125 £77,375
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -9.78%

Cloud Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Cloud Security job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Cloud Security
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Cloud Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Cloud Security

Cloud Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (11.11%) AWS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (11.11%) PaaS
5 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) LAN
2 2 (22.22%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
1 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Line Management
2 2 (22.22%) RBAC
2 2 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
2 2 (22.22%) SIEM
2 2 (22.22%) SOAR
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
3 1 (11.11%) People Management
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCIE
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (11.11%) CISM
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) CASB
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Meraki