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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 42 62
Rank change year-on-year -43 +20 +40
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 6 39 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.74% 4.00% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 4.64% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 7
10th Percentile £60,625 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £69,375 £45,313 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £53,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.53% -17.31% -
75th Percentile - £66,250 £71,250
90th Percentile - £72,500 £75,500
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £51,404 £65,000
% change year-on-year +45.90% -20.92% -

All Process and 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 723 840 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.82% 86.07% 96.60%
Number of salaries quoted 316 454 490
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,195 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +3.23% -
75th Percentile £68,125 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -30.91% +5.77% -5.45%

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 6 November 2025.

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 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (16.67%) RBAC
2 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft