Security Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Security Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Security Engineer salary in Scotland is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 194 197
Rank change year-on-year -65 +3 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 28 33 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.42% 0.69% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.77% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 24 31 40
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,885 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +25.00% +26.32%
75th Percentile £62,833 £77,542 £51,750
90th Percentile £81,375 £85,000 £63,750
UK median annual salary £59,526 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.42% - +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,492 4,293 5,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.85% 90.28% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,331 2,944
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,058
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in Scotland

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in Scotland

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in Scotland

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 Security Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 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 -94 15 £60,000 +33.33% 4
Aberdeen - 6 £55,000 -
Edinburgh +16 4 £59,526 -0.40% 1
Dundee - 1 £38,000 -
Stirling - 1 £46,000 -
Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (53.57%) Azure
3 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
4 12 (42.86%) Cloud Security
5 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
5 11 (39.29%) Information Security
5 11 (39.29%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (32.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.00%) DevOps
7 7 (25.00%) NIST
7 7 (25.00%) Finance
7 7 (25.00%) Use Case
7 7 (25.00%) PaaS
8 6 (21.43%) Firewall
8 6 (21.43%) Risk Management
8 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
8 6 (21.43%) Azure Certification
9 5 (17.86%) Incident Response
9 5 (17.86%) DevSecOps
9 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
9 5 (17.86%) GDPR
9 5 (17.86%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
9 5 (17.86%) Security Operations
9 5 (17.86%) Windows
9 5 (17.86%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (17.86%) Incident Management
10 4 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection

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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (25.00%) PaaS
4 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
5 4 (14.29%) IaaS
5 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (14.29%) SaaS
6 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) GCP
6 3 (10.71%) GitHub
7 1 (3.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) Firewall
2 4 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (3.57%) LAN
3 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.57%) WAN
3 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 4 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 3 (10.71%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.71%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) CCTV
4 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.57%) SCADA
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
1 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 11 (39.29%) Information Security
4 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (25.00%) DevOps
5 7 (25.00%) Use Case
6 6 (21.43%) Risk Management
7 5 (17.86%) DevSecOps
7 5 (17.86%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (17.86%) Incident Management
7 5 (17.86%) Incident Response
7 5 (17.86%) Security Operations
7 5 (17.86%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (14.29%) Analytics
8 4 (14.29%) Application Security
8 4 (14.29%) Change Management
8 4 (14.29%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 4 (14.29%) SIEM
8 4 (14.29%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.71%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 4 (14.29%) CISM
2 4 (14.29%) CISSP
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) CCNA
4 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (25.00%) NIST
3 5 (17.86%) GDPR
4 4 (14.29%) SOC 2
5 2 (7.14%) NCSC
6 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) Nessus
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco
2 3 (10.71%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Aruba
3 1 (3.57%) Citrix
3 1 (3.57%) Juniper
3 1 (3.57%) Meraki
3 1 (3.57%) Qualys