Security Operations Job Trends in Glasgow

Security Operations (SecOps)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Security Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 51 172
Rank change year-on-year 0 +121 -60
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 7 5 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.88% 1.00% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.06% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 19
10th Percentile £57,500 £57,625 £35,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £59,688 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £63,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +21.43% -38.24%
75th Percentile - £67,188 £75,625
90th Percentile - £68,875 £86,250
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -26.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Security Operations 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 592 473 2,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 74.09% 94.41% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 385 234 710
10th Percentile £29,375 £33,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,063 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -10.26%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Operations relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Security Operations
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Security Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Security Operations

Security Operations
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in Glasgow over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Operations in Glasgow

Security Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
1 3 (42.86%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) RBAC
3 1 (14.29%) Red Team
3 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
3 1 (14.29%) SOAR
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CISM
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (14.29%) GRC
2 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Meraki