Cybersecurity Engineer Job Trends in Glasgow

Cybersecurity Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in Glasgow is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 163 78
Rank change year-on-year +86 -85 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 1 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.14% 0.095% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.097% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £59,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -16.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,625 £80,000
90th Percentile - £66,000 -
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £50,309 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -32.92% +15.38%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 688 2,066 805
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 97.91% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 284 685 619
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,300
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -1.82% +9.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Glasgow

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Cybersecurity Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 6 September 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft