Cybersecurity Jobs in Scotland

Cybersecurity
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 26 45
Rank change year-on-year -57 +19 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 329 444 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.90% 9.38% 5.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.27% 9.95% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 149 159 124
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,808 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,983 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +3.52% +15.58%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,653 £91,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +5.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,240 4,462 5,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.93% 94.23% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,423 2,247 2,772
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,392 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +10.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Scotland

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Scotland

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Scotland

Cybersecurity
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 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 -78 169 £60,000 -14.29% 19
Edinburgh -1 110 £50,000 -16.00% 13
Aberdeen -14 19 £47,500 -32.14% 5
Aberdeenshire - 6 £45,000 - 1
North Lanarkshire - 5 £45,000 -
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 - 1
Dundee -12 3 £55,380 +15.09% 1
Highlands - 3 £60,000 - 1
Lanarkshire -7 2 £45,000 - 5
Stirling - 2 £48,000 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £40,000 - 2
Fife -10 1 £60,000 +60.00%
Falkirk - 1 £50,000 -
Argyll and Bute - 1 - - 3
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
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 24 (7.29%) Apache Spark
2 22 (6.69%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.26%) FileNet
4 10 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.52%) Confluence
6 2 (0.61%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.74%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (30.09%) AWS
2 62 (18.84%) Azure
3 59 (17.93%) SaaS
4 48 (14.59%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (11.25%) Amazon S3
5 37 (11.25%) GCP
6 31 (9.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 31 (9.42%) Datadog
7 27 (8.21%) Google Docs
8 24 (7.29%) Slack
9 23 (6.99%) Amazon SQS
9 23 (6.99%) Lucidchart
9 23 (6.99%) Miro
10 19 (5.78%) PaaS
11 16 (4.86%) Entra ID
11 16 (4.86%) IaaS
12 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
12 9 (2.74%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.82%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 34 (10.33%) Firewall
2 14 (4.26%) Network Security
3 9 (2.74%) WAN
4 8 (2.43%) VPN
5 6 (1.82%) DNS
5 6 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.52%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (1.52%) DHCP
6 5 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (1.52%) LAN
7 4 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.22%) IMAP
7 4 (1.22%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.91%) Wireless
8 3 (0.91%) WLAN
9 2 (0.61%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.30%) Internet
10 1 (0.30%) RSVP
10 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.25%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (8.51%) Big Data
3 24 (7.29%) Hadoop
4 23 (6.99%) Redis
4 23 (6.99%) Scylla
5 19 (5.78%) NoSQL
6 15 (4.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 13 (3.95%) MySQL
8 5 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.22%) Power BI
10 3 (0.91%) Tableau
11 1 (0.30%) Apache Accumulo
11 1 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.30%) Flink
11 1 (0.30%) HBase
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database 10g
11 1 (0.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (4.56%) JUnit
2 8 (2.43%) JIRA
3 3 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.30%) GitLab
General
1 125 (37.99%) Social Skills
2 124 (37.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 120 (36.47%) Finance
4 97 (29.48%) Law
5 33 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (4.56%) Military
8 12 (3.65%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.65%) Marketing
9 9 (2.74%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.13%) Banking
11 6 (1.82%) Legal
12 5 (1.52%) Retail
13 4 (1.22%) Billing
13 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.61%) Games
16 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 111 (33.74%) Software Engineer
2 46 (13.98%) Lead
3 40 (12.16%) Analyst
3 40 (12.16%) Principal Engineer
3 40 (12.16%) Senior
4 38 (11.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (10.03%) Principal Software Engineer
6 31 (9.42%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 20 (6.08%) Architect
7 20 (6.08%) Security Engineer
8 16 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (4.86%) AWS Software Engineer
8 16 (4.86%) Full Stack Engineer
8 16 (4.86%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 16 (4.86%) Java Engineer
8 16 (4.86%) Java Software Engineer
9 15 (4.56%) Security Analyst
10 14 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
10 14 (4.26%) Support Analyst
10 14 (4.26%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.55%) Kafka
2 37 (11.25%) GraphQL
3 31 (9.42%) OpenTelemetry
4 29 (8.81%) Spring
5 27 (8.21%) AngularJS
5 27 (8.21%) React
6 15 (4.56%) J2EE
7 14 (4.26%) CSS
7 14 (4.26%) Hibernate
7 14 (4.26%) HTML
7 14 (4.26%) JMS
7 14 (4.26%) jQuery
7 14 (4.26%) JSON
7 14 (4.26%) Node.js
7 14 (4.26%) REST
7 14 (4.26%) Spring Integration
7 14 (4.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 13 (3.95%) JPA
9 9 (2.74%) SAML
10 7 (2.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 64 (19.45%) Cloud Native
2 57 (17.33%) Public Cloud
3 52 (15.81%) Algorithms
4 48 (14.59%) Management Information System
5 23 (6.99%) Data Structures
6 19 (5.78%) Operational Technology
7 16 (4.86%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (2.74%) Driving Licence
8 9 (2.74%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.74%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.43%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.22%) Blockchain
11 4 (1.22%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.22%) IoT
11 4 (1.22%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.24%) Windows
2 43 (13.07%) Linux
3 25 (7.60%) Unix
4 18 (5.47%) Mac OS X
5 16 (4.86%) Windows Server
6 13 (3.95%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.52%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.61%) Android
8 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.61%) VMS
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (36.47%) Software Engineering
2 110 (33.43%) Agile
3 101 (30.70%) SDLC
4 89 (27.05%) Artificial Intelligence
4 89 (27.05%) Machine Learning
5 87 (26.44%) CI/CD
6 80 (24.32%) Community of Practice
6 80 (24.32%) Operational Stability
7 68 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 55 (16.72%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 55 (16.72%) Threat Intelligence
10 48 (14.59%) Identity Access Management
11 45 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
12 44 (13.37%) Visualisation
13 42 (12.77%) Analytics
14 41 (12.46%) Roadmaps
15 38 (11.55%) Continuous Delivery
16 37 (11.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
17 36 (10.94%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 107 (32.52%) Java
2 31 (9.42%) Python
3 24 (7.29%) Bash
3 24 (7.29%) Go
3 24 (7.29%) Scala
4 18 (5.47%) SQL
5 14 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.26%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.04%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.30%) C++
7 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (11.55%) CISSP
2 36 (10.94%) Degree
3 34 (10.33%) CISM
4 15 (4.56%) GCIA
4 15 (4.56%) GCIH
4 15 (4.56%) Security Cleared
5 14 (4.26%) GREM
5 14 (4.26%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.43%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.82%) CCNA
8 6 (1.82%) CCNP
8 6 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.61%) CISA
10 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.61%) PMP
10 2 (0.61%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.33%) NIST
2 27 (8.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (4.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (4.86%) GDPR
4 8 (2.43%) NCSC
5 7 (2.13%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.52%) SLA
7 3 (0.91%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.61%) COBIT
8 2 (0.61%) DICOM
8 2 (0.61%) GRC
8 2 (0.61%) ISO 31000
8 2 (0.61%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.61%) QA
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.30%) SOC 3
System Software
1 22 (6.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.22%) Docker
3 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 61 (18.54%) Kubernetes
2 44 (13.37%) Terraform
3 31 (9.42%) Grafana
4 14 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.22%) Ansible
5 4 (1.22%) SCCM
5 4 (1.22%) vRealize
5 4 (1.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 3 (0.91%) CASB
6 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.61%) WSUS
8 1 (0.30%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.30%) Nessus
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 64 (19.45%) Microsoft
2 51 (15.50%) Dell
3 38 (11.55%) Oracle
4 35 (10.64%) Google
5 32 (9.73%) Splunk
6 31 (9.42%) Dynatrace
7 16 (4.86%) Databricks
8 13 (3.95%) Cisco
9 10 (3.04%) IFS
10 9 (2.74%) Epicor
10 9 (2.74%) JD Edwards
11 8 (2.43%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.52%) Sophos
13 4 (1.22%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (1.22%) ConnectWise
13 4 (1.22%) CyberArk
14 3 (0.91%) VMware
15 2 (0.61%) Apple
15 2 (0.61%) Citrix
15 2 (0.61%) Meraki