Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in Scotland is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 215 237
Rank change year-on-year -63 +22 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 4 7 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.060% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 1
10th Percentile £45,375 £42,000 -
25th Percentile £45,938 £46,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.39% +12.73% -
75th Percentile £56,250 £62,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,750 £73,750 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +30.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 6,504 4,273 5,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.86% 90.24% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,617 2,331 2,950
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,569 £28,247
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Scotland

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in Scotland.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Scotland

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in Scotland

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 -104 3 £47,500 +5.56%
Stirling - 1 £46,000 -
Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
3 2 (50.00%) Application Security
3 2 (50.00%) SOAR
3 2 (50.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (25.00%) NCSC
4 1 (25.00%) NIST
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Server Management
4 1 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Application Security
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Information Security
3 2 (50.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) SOAR
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (25.00%) Protective Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix