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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 104 26
Rank change year-on-year +65 -78 +13
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 16 169 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.29% 4.24% 8.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 4.39% 9.20%
Number of salaries quoted 15 67 41
10th Percentile £44,200 £34,000 £43,697
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +34.40%
75th Percentile £78,250 £70,000 -
90th Percentile £89,000 £82,500 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £47,683 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -13.30% -7.60% -0.79%

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 436 3,850 1,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 89.53% 96.64% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 253 822 648
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -1.82% +10.31%
75th Percentile £75,360 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,450 £78,750 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%

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 16 May 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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) IaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (6.25%) Finance
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Principal Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Principal Software Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DBA
4 1 (6.25%) Development Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Head of Information
4 1 (6.25%) Head of Information Security
4 1 (6.25%) Information Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 2 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Apple iOS
2 3 (18.75%) Mac OS
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Solaris
4 1 (6.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 4 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (25.00%) Refactoring
2 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Information Security
3 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
3 3 (18.75%) SIEM
3 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (12.50%) Business Development
4 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 2 (12.50%) Threat Analysis
5 1 (6.25%) Database Tuning
5 1 (6.25%) Open Source
5 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) C
1 4 (25.00%) C++
1 4 (25.00%) Objective-C
2 2 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CISM
1 2 (12.50%) CISSP
1 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (6.25%) ISO 22301
4 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.25%) ArcSight
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Veritas
2 1 (6.25%) VMware