SIEM Job Trends in Scotland

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring SIEM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 109 174
Rank change year-on-year -26 +65 -45
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 6 39 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.22% 1.52% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 1.64% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 21
10th Percentile £53,600 £42,889 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,713 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,600 £52,654 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% +12.03% -32.86%
75th Percentile £72,500 £64,123 £50,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £66,750 £53,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

SIEM 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 2,206 2,381 2,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.84% 92.90% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,076 1,004 1,812
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,325 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,370 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

SIEM job vacancy trend in Scotland

SIEM
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SIEM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SIEM

SIEM
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SIEM in Scotland

SIEM
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIEM within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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 -4 2 £63,750 +8.51% 4
Edinburgh -21 1 £80,000 +59.02% 3
Lanarkshire - 1 £59,000 - 2
Shetland Islands - 1 - -
SIEM
UK

SIEM
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
1 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Head of IT
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (83.33%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (16.67%) Event Correlation
4 1 (16.67%) Forensic Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Malware Reverse Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
4 1 (16.67%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) GIAC
1 1 (16.67%) GREM
1 1 (16.67%) OSCP
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Incident Response Team
1 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
2 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk