Vulnerability Scanning Jobs in Scotland

Vulnerability Scanning
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Vulnerability Scanning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 209 240
Rank change year-on-year -63 +31 -54
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 12 12 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.26% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.27% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11 8 5
10th Percentile - £43,752 £33,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £48,878 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,263 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.15% +34.74% -18.27%
75th Percentile £46,000 £62,833 £51,750
90th Percentile £53,750 - -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.80% -0.79% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Vulnerability Scanning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,252 4,431 5,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.79% 94.24% 90.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,423 2,224 2,815
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,491 £30,465
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% +7.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in Scotland over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram 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 6 May 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 +39 7 £37,500 -37.00% 1
Glasgow -105 2 £50,000 +22.51% 1
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £40,000 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
3 4 (33.33%) Mimecast
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) LAN
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Legal
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Security Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (16.67%) IoT
2 2 (16.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Information Security
2 6 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (41.67%) SIEM
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (25.00%) Use Case
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Application Security
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 2 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 2 (16.67%) Threat Management
6 2 (16.67%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (8.33%) MCSE
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (25.00%) NIST
4 2 (16.67%) NCSC
4 2 (16.67%) SOC 2
5 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (33.33%) SCCM
3 1 (8.33%) CASB
3 1 (8.33%) CSIRT
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Dell
1 5 (41.67%) HP
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Aderant
2 4 (33.33%) iManage
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Darktrace
3 1 (8.33%) NetApp