Ethical Hacking Jobs in Scotland

Ethical Hacking
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Ethical Hacking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ethical Hacking over the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 190 235
Rank change year-on-year +6 +45 -21
Permanent jobs citing Ethical Hacking 6 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.13% 0.032% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.034% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £49,125 - -
25th Percentile £49,688 £47,788 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £49,990 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.52% +35.11% -24.49%
75th Percentile £55,313 £52,193 £45,607
90th Percentile £55,875 - £47,493
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Ethical Hacking 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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,061 2,973 4,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 86.68% 96.46% 92.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,461 1,947 2,779
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,800 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,500 £82,548 £85,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +4.35%

Ethical Hacking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethical Hacking in Scotland

Ethical Hacking
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Ethical Hacking in Scotland

Ethical Hacking
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ethical Hacking within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 October 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 - 6 £51,250 -
Ethical Hacking
UK

Ethical Hacking
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 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (83.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Security Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
1 5 (83.33%) Senior Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Senior Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 5 (83.33%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Contingency Planning
2 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (83.33%) Purple Team
3 1 (16.67%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CISM
1 6 (100.00%) CISSP
1 6 (100.00%) SSCP
2 5 (83.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) ISO 22301
1 6 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft