Cybersecurity Jobs in Glasgow

Cybersecurity
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 96 29
Rank change year-on-year +62 -67 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 17 166 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.44% 4.46% 8.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 4.60% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 16 67 24
10th Percentile £47,500 £34,000 £42,859
25th Percentile £52,375 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,507
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -0.84% +26.06%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,250 £74,139
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,000 £81,536
Scotland median annual salary £47,683 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -13.30% -7.60% +3.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Cybersecurity 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 446 3,608 1,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.28% 96.94% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 251 789 663
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,250 £65,000 £67,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £77,500 £78,750
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -11.76% +13.33%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Glasgow

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Glasgow

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Glasgow over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Glasgow

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
2 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.88%) IaaS
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) NUnit
General
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Lead
1 4 (23.53%) Principal Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Principal Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) C# Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) DBA
3 1 (5.88%) Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Head of Information Security
3 1 (5.88%) Head of Security
3 1 (5.88%) Information Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (5.88%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Security Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior DBA
3 1 (5.88%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
1 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
1 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (5.88%) CSS
1 1 (5.88%) CSS3
1 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
1 1 (5.88%) HTML5
1 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (17.65%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (17.65%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Apple iOS
1 3 (17.65%) Mac OS
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Solaris
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Mentoring
2 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
2 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (23.53%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (17.65%) Information Security
4 3 (17.65%) Refactoring
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Agile
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.88%) Business Development
6 1 (5.88%) Cryptography
6 1 (5.88%) Data Management
6 1 (5.88%) Facilities Management
6 1 (5.88%) Microservices
6 1 (5.88%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) C
1 3 (17.65%) C++
1 3 (17.65%) Objective-C
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) C#
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CISM
1 4 (23.53%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (23.53%) SOC 2
3 3 (17.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (5.88%) ISO 22301
4 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Veritas
3 1 (5.88%) VMware