Cyber Essentials PLUS Jobs in Scotland

Cyber Essentials PLUS
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials PLUS over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 279 224
Rank change year-on-year +123 -55 -16
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 3 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.10% 0.059% 0.089%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.59% 0.50% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - - £31,281
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £33,152
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £38,232
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.70% -8.86%
75th Percentile £45,625 £47,500 £46,222
90th Percentile £49,750 - £49,839
UK median annual salary £63,250 £55,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -14.06% +2.06%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

Cyber Essentials PLUS falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 511 794 663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.24% 11.69% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 104 334 207
10th Percentile £38,843 £22,250 £31,441
25th Percentile £52,000 £33,750 £40,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,033 £71,703 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials PLUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in Scotland

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in Scotland.

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in Scotland

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials PLUS in Scotland

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 2 £43,750 - 4
Edinburgh +22 1 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Cyber Essentials PLUS
UK

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
1 1 (33.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
1 1 (33.33%) Nmap
1 1 (33.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware