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 citing Security Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	61	82	43
Rank change year-on-year	+21	-39	+21
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations	18	6	41
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow	1.16%	0.76%	4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.50%	0.85%	4.76%
Number of salaries quoted	8	6	18
10^th Percentile	£66,750	£60,625	£35,000
25^th Percentile	-	£69,375	£47,813
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£75,000	£75,000	£53,750
Median % change year-on-year	-	+39.53%	-17.31%
75^th Percentile	-	-	£63,750
90^th Percentile	£78,525	-	£71,500
Scotland median annual salary	£75,000	£75,000	£51,404
% change year-on-year	-	+45.90%	-20.92%

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 citing process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills	1,201	705	861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow	77.58%	89.35%	86.27%
Number of salaries quoted	686	303	460
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£29,000	£29,975
25^th Percentile	£37,500	£32,125	£38,375
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£50,000	£52,500
Median % change year-on-year	+10.00%	-4.76%	-
75^th Percentile	£74,688	£70,000	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£85,000	£90,000
Scotland median annual salary	£55,000	£38,000	£55,000
% change year-on-year	+44.74%	-30.91%	+4.76%

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 Salary Trend in Glasgow

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 28 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Operations in Glasgow

Security Operations Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, job vacancies citing Security Operations also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region citing Security Operations.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cybersecurity	83.3%	15
2	Blue Team	33.3%	6
2	Incident Response	33.3%	6
2	ISO/IEC 27001	33.3%	6
5	Data Loss Prevention	27.8%	5
5	Information Security	27.8%	5
7	NIST	22.2%	4
7	Stakeholder Management	22.2%	4
7	Threat Detection	22.2%	4
7	Vulnerability Management	22.2%	4
11	AI	16.7%	3
11	Continuous Improvement	16.7%	3
11	Cyber Essentials	16.7%	3
11	Root Cause Analysis	16.7%	3
11	SIEM	16.7%	3
16	Azure	11.1%	2
16	CISSP	11.1%	2
16	CompTIA CySA+	11.1%	2
16	CompTIA Security+	11.1%	2
16	Cyber Threat Intelligence	11.1%	2
16	Firewall	11.1%	2
16	GAP Analysis	11.1%	2
16	GRC	11.1%	2
16	Incident Management	11.1%	2
16	Information Governance	11.1%	2
16	Information Security Governance	11.1%	2
16	Mentoring	11.1%	2
16	Microsoft	11.1%	2
16	Microsoft 365	11.1%	2
16	Microsoft Purview	11.1%	2

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cybersecurity	83.3%	15
2	Blue Team	33.3%	6
2	Incident Response	33.3%	6
4	Data Loss Prevention	27.8%	5
4	Information Security	27.8%	5
6	Stakeholder Management	22.2%	4
6	Threat Detection	22.2%	4
6	Vulnerability Management	22.2%	4
9	AI	16.7%	3
9	Continuous Improvement	16.7%	3
9	Root Cause Analysis	16.7%	3
9	SIEM	16.7%	3
13	Cyber Threat Intelligence	11.1%	2
13	GAP Analysis	11.1%	2
13	Incident Management	11.1%	2
13	Information Governance	11.1%	2
13	Information Security Governance	11.1%	2
13	Mentoring	11.1%	2
13	Remediation Plan	11.1%	2
13	Risk Management	11.1%	2