Vulnerability Scanning Jobs in Scotland

Vulnerability Scanning
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 272 215
Rank change year-on-year +113 -57 +15
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 2 11 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.066% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 9
10th Percentile - - £44,338
25th Percentile £61,250 £36,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -27.27% +18.28%
75th Percentile £63,750 £47,375 £62,833
90th Percentile - £58,375 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £55,554
% change year-on-year +25.00% +8.00% -7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Vulnerability Scanning 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 2,807 6,203 4,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 93.01% 92.46% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,380 2,419 2,194
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,017
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +6.48%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,156
90th Percentile £83,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in Scotland

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Scanning in Scotland

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 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 +180 2 £62,500 +25.00% 3
Vulnerability Scanning
UK

Vulnerability Scanning
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:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2