Information Security Jobs in Edinburgh

Information Security (InfoSec)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 86 94
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 25 47 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.59% 2.59% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.71% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11 31 31
10th Percentile £21,000 £37,625 £32,600
25th Percentile £28,625 £54,878 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +16.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,750 £65,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -21.92% +10.64% +9.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Information Security 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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,369 1,734 2,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.14% 95.43% 93.69%
Number of salaries quoted 949 1,013 1,497
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £73,000 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,731 £89,776 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +11.11%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Edinburgh

Information Security
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Information Security in Edinburgh

Information Security
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security in Edinburgh

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) SaaS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (12.00%) Mimecast
5 2 (8.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) Selenium
General
1 17 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (52.00%) Military
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Legal
4 3 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Analyst
1 13 (52.00%) Support Analyst
1 13 (52.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) IT Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Procurement Officer
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) IT Architect
4 2 (8.00%) IT Security Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Security Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Security Penetration Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Security Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Penetration Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Security Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) OAuth
1 2 (8.00%) OpenID
1 2 (8.00%) SAML
2 1 (4.00%) ADO
2 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.00%) Java EE
2 1 (4.00%) OpenJDK
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) SOAP
2 1 (4.00%) Spring
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Windows
2 13 (52.00%) Linux
2 13 (52.00%) Mac OS X
2 13 (52.00%) Unix
3 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Actionable Insight
1 13 (52.00%) Customer Service
1 13 (52.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 13 (52.00%) Cybersecurity
1 13 (52.00%) DevOps
1 13 (52.00%) Incident Management
1 13 (52.00%) Incident Response
1 13 (52.00%) ITIL
1 13 (52.00%) Malware Analysis
1 13 (52.00%) Open Source
1 13 (52.00%) Resource Management
1 13 (52.00%) Security Operations
1 13 (52.00%) Service Delivery
1 13 (52.00%) Situational Awareness
1 13 (52.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 5 (20.00%) Security Management
3 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 3 (12.00%) Data Entry
4 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (12.00%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) Java
1 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) CISSP
2 13 (52.00%) CISM
2 13 (52.00%) Degree
2 13 (52.00%) GCIA
2 13 (52.00%) GCIH
2 13 (52.00%) GREM
3 2 (8.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (8.00%) CCSP
3 2 (8.00%) CISA
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.00%) GDPR
2 3 (12.00%) ISO 9001
3 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (8.00%) NIST
4 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (12.00%) SCCM
3 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Dell
2 4 (16.00%) HP
2 4 (16.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.00%) Aderant
3 3 (12.00%) iManage
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Xero
4 2 (8.00%) ForgeRock
5 1 (4.00%) CyberTech
5 1 (4.00%) Darktrace
5 1 (4.00%) NetApp