Cyber Threat Jobs in Scotland

Cyber Threats
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat 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 151 262 188
Rank change year-on-year +111 -74 +61
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 8 21 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.27% 0.31% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.08% 0.66% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6 17 37
10th Percentile £37,000 £39,250 £44,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £46,306 £46,454
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +22.73% -19.76%
75th Percentile £45,750 £70,000 £62,833
90th Percentile £93,575 £82,500 £67,120
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year - +9.20% -14.96%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 739 3,189 1,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.93% 46.96% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 371 843 765
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £32,657
25th Percentile £48,094 £39,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £89,427
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in Scotland

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Cyber Threat in Scotland

Cyber Threat
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Cyber Threat in Scotland

Cyber Threat
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 Threat 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
Renfrewshire - 3 £45,000 - 6
Glasgow +162 2 £39,000 -44.29% 13
Edinburgh +19 2 £135,652 +100.97% 15
Aberdeen - 1 - - 9
Cyber Threat
UK

Cyber Threat
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 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Information Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (62.50%) Cyber Threat Analysis
2 5 (62.50%) SIEM
2 5 (62.50%) Threat Analysis
3 4 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
3 4 (50.00%) OSINT
4 3 (37.50%) Open Source
4 3 (37.50%) Threat Detection
5 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Event Correlation
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 2 (25.00%) Situational Awareness
5 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Use Case
6 1 (12.50%) Cost Management
6 1 (12.50%) Operations Management
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) ArcSight