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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 104 68
Rank change year-on-year +24 -36 +40
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 3 46 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.40% 2.45% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 2.70% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3 20 4
10th Percentile £36,350 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £42,875 £48,438 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -2.38% -19.23%
75th Percentile £66,875 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,250 £70,500 £63,500
Scotland median annual salary £61,300 £50,309 £47,500
% change year-on-year +21.85% +5.91% -26.92%

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 676 1,706 761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.50% 91.04% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 270 564 582
10th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £33,775
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,750 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Operations in Glasgow

Security Operations
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft