Security Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Security Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Security Engineer salary in Glasgow is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 199 121
Rank change year-on-year +123 -78 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 8 13 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.05% 0.37% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 0.38% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 6
10th Percentile - - £28,563
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £35,344
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,750 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +45.71% -8.85%
75th Percentile £63,750 £82,500 £68,125
90th Percentile - - £81,875
Scotland median annual salary £95,000 £61,250 £69,447
% change year-on-year +55.10% -11.80% +26.27%

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 675 3,459 1,291
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.93% 98.13% 88.18%
Number of salaries quoted 303 955 654
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Glasgow

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Glasgow

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Law
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) SDLC
1 5 (62.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
3 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (37.50%) Use Case
3 3 (37.50%) NIST
3 3 (37.50%) SOC 2
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) NCSC
3 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (37.50%) SOAR

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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (62.50%) Law
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) SDLC
2 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
3 3 (37.50%) Information Security
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 3 (37.50%) Use Case
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (37.50%) NCSC
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
1 3 (37.50%) SOC 2
2 1 (12.50%) GRC