SIEM Jobs in Scotland

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring SIEM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SIEM over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 250 86
Rank change year-on-year +101 -164 +27
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 12 25 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.41% 0.37% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.40% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10 23 43
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,754 £47,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -32.86% -
75th Percentile £58,688 £53,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £63,466 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% -2.36% -

All Process and 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 2,723 6,177 4,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.81% 92.44% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 2,398 2,191
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,055
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.70% +5.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,798 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

SIEM
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing SIEM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for SIEM in Scotland

SIEM
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SIEM in Scotland

SIEM
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SIEM in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 15 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 +169 5 £50,000 +6.38% 7
Renfrewshire - 4 £45,000 - 4
Edinburgh +17 2 £48,507 -28.14% 8
Lanarkshire - 1 £56,500 - 1
SIEM
UK

SIEM
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 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Banking
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) IT Security Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Security Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Applications Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Forensic Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (58.33%) Incident Response
3 6 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
3 6 (50.00%) OSINT
4 5 (41.67%) Cyber Threat Analysis
4 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
4 5 (41.67%) Open Source
4 5 (41.67%) Threat Analysis
4 5 (41.67%) Use Case
5 4 (33.33%) Information Security
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (33.33%) Situational Awareness
5 4 (33.33%) Threat Detection
6 3 (25.00%) Event Correlation
6 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
6 3 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
6 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (16.67%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 2 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
7 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (8.33%) Perl
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) CEH
3 1 (8.33%) CISM
3 1 (8.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (16.67%) NCSC
2 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 2 (16.67%) SOC 2
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) ArcSight