IT Security Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

IT Security Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median IT Security Engineer salary in Glasgow is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 June 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 224 -
Rank change year-on-year +142 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 3 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.43% 0.11% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.11% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile - £46,875 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £49,688 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,188 -
90th Percentile - £63,375 -
Scotland median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £75,554
% change year-on-year +19.05% -30.51% +3.50%

All Permanent 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 622 3,728 1,296
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.98% 98.08% 86.46%
Number of salaries quoted 257 1,005 634
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

IT Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Engineer in Glasgow

IT Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Security Engineer in Glasgow.

Salary trend for IT Security Engineer in Glasgow

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, IT Security 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 IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (100.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) NCSC
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) SOC 2
1 3 (100.00%) Application Security
1 3 (100.00%) SOAR

IT Security 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:

Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Application Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) SOAR
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NCSC
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) SOC 2