Security Specialist Jobs in Scotland

Security Specialist
UK > Scotland

The median Security Specialist salary in Scotland is £66,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 201 232
Rank change year-on-year -76 +31 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Specialist 5 21 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.075% 0.44% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.49% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 7
10th Percentile £50,500 £50,875 £41,664
25th Percentile £55,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £55,000 £45,607
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +20.60% -6.92%
75th Percentile £72,750 £59,500 £51,554
90th Percentile £74,100 £60,000 £58,100
UK median annual salary £50,500 £65,000 £62,250
% change year-on-year -22.31% +4.42% -0.40%

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 6,437 4,309 5,474
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.86% 90.26% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,615 2,345 2,951
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,300 £28,193
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 £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Security Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Specialist in Scotland

Security Specialist
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Security Specialist in Scotland

Security Specialist
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Specialist in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Specialist in Scotland

Security Specialist
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 Specialist within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 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
Edinburgh +22 3 £66,000 +13.79%
Glasgow -107 2 £62,500 +13.64% 1
Security Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Security Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Law
2 3 (60.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Register
3 2 (40.00%) ISO 31000
3 2 (40.00%) NIST 800
3 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (40.00%) NIST
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (40.00%) COBIT
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) OAuth
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) OpenID
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) Splunk
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) J2EE
4 1 (20.00%) LDAP
4 1 (20.00%) Sun
4 1 (20.00%) CA
4 1 (20.00%) SAML
4 1 (20.00%) Salesforce

Security Specialist 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 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 3 (60.00%) Law
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) J2EE
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Register
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) COBIT
1 2 (40.00%) ISO 31000
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CASB
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CA
1 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (20.00%) Okta
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) Sun
1 1 (20.00%) Trustwave