IT Security Engineer Jobs in Scotland

IT Security Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median IT Security Engineer salary in Scotland is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 280 226
Rank change year-on-year +134 -54 +22
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 4 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.059% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.061% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £48,625 - -
25th Percentile £50,313 £45,000 £73,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,250 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year +16.75% -34.81% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £77,542
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +13.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 2,619 6,527 4,267
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.45% 96.90% 90.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,376 2,623 2,327
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,800 £31,491
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,369 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

IT Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Engineer in Scotland

IT Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for IT Security Engineer in Scotland

IT Security 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 IT Security Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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 +182 3 £62,500 +19.05% 2
Aberdeen - 1 £52,500 -
IT Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, IT Security 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 IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (75.00%) NIST
3 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
3 2 (50.00%) Application Security
3 2 (50.00%) SOAR
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) NCSC
3 2 (50.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall

IT Security 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (50.00%) Application Security
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) SOAR
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) NCSC
2 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory