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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 80 117
Rank change year-on-year +6 +37 -41
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Security 4 6 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.28% 0.80% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.89% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 12
10th Percentile £58,047 £55,950 -
25th Percentile £58,868 £59,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,515 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% +33.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,940 £78,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £66,627 £81,900 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £100,000 £74,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +34.23% +10.37% -3.57%

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 1,060 677 1,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 75.28% 90.75% 90.14%
Number of salaries quoted 666 274 559
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,750 £54,389
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -3.01% -1.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £82,700
Scotland median annual salary £54,194 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +42.62% -30.91% +4.76%

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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Trainee
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SSCP
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds