Safety Engineering Job Trends in Scotland

Safety Engineering
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Safety Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Safety Engineering 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.22% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £65,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £87,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -28.16% +93.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Safety Engineering 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 2,250 2,517 2,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 80.99% 92.13% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,129 1,089 1,773
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,100 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Safety Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Safety Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Safety Engineering job vacancy trend in Scotland

Safety Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Safety Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Safety Engineering

Safety Engineering
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Safety Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Edinburgh - 6 £60,000 - 1
Safety Engineering
UK

Safety Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Senior
1 6 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) CAN bus
1 6 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 6 (100.00%) SDLC
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C
1 6 (100.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) IEC 61508
1 6 (100.00%) MISRA
1 6 (100.00%) MISRA C
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Functional Safety