Cybersecurity Jobs in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Scotland > Edinburgh

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 31 38
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +11
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 92 168 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.02% 9.07% 7.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 9.51% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 41 79 95
10th Percentile £25,750 £35,000 £38,526
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -6.07% -22.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,813 £90,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £105,000
Scotland median annual salary £51,000 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.32% -0.79% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Cybersecurity 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 1,343 1,766 2,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.84% 95.36% 93.68%
Number of salaries quoted 939 1,041 1,465
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,733 £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 £72,750 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,852 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Edinburgh

Cybersecurity
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 14 (15.22%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.52%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.09%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (33.70%) SaaS
2 18 (19.57%) Google Docs
3 17 (18.48%) GCP
4 16 (17.39%) AWS
5 14 (15.22%) Amazon S3
5 14 (15.22%) Amazon SQS
5 14 (15.22%) Azure
5 14 (15.22%) Lucidchart
5 14 (15.22%) Miro
5 14 (15.22%) Slack
6 12 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (8.70%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.35%) OneDrive
9 3 (3.26%) PaaS
10 2 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.17%) GitHub
11 1 (1.09%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.09%) IaaS
11 1 (1.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.43%) Firewall
1 5 (5.43%) WAN
2 2 (2.17%) Network Security
2 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.17%) Wireless
3 1 (1.09%) DHCP
3 1 (1.09%) DNS
3 1 (1.09%) Internet
3 1 (1.09%) LAN
3 1 (1.09%) VLAN
3 1 (1.09%) VPN
3 1 (1.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.22%) Big Data
1 14 (15.22%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (15.22%) Hadoop
1 14 (15.22%) Redis
1 14 (15.22%) Scylla
2 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.09%) JIRA
General
1 33 (35.87%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (15.22%) Military
4 12 (13.04%) Finance
5 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.35%) Billing
7 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.26%) Banking
8 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.17%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.17%) Retail
10 1 (1.09%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (21.74%) Analyst
2 14 (15.22%) Principal Engineer
2 14 (15.22%) Principal Software Engineer
2 14 (15.22%) Software Engineer
2 14 (15.22%) Support Analyst
2 14 (15.22%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 9 (9.78%) Administrator
3 9 (9.78%) Support Engineer
4 8 (8.70%) Consultant
4 8 (8.70%) IT Support
4 8 (8.70%) Senior
5 5 (5.43%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 5 (5.43%) IT Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) IT Manager
5 5 (5.43%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Security Consultant
5 5 (5.43%) Security Manager
5 5 (5.43%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (4.35%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.22%) GraphQL
1 14 (15.22%) Kafka
2 5 (5.43%) LDAP
3 2 (2.17%) OpenID
3 2 (2.17%) Web Services
4 1 (1.09%) J2EE
4 1 (1.09%) OAuth
4 1 (1.09%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.09%) REST
4 1 (1.09%) SAML
4 1 (1.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Algorithms
1 14 (15.22%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.52%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (6.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.43%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.35%) Cyber Security Posture
5 3 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.26%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.26%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.17%) FMCG
6 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.17%) PACS
6 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.09%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.09%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 26 (28.26%) Windows
2 23 (25.00%) Linux
3 20 (21.74%) Unix
4 14 (15.22%) Mac OS X
5 4 (4.35%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.09%) Android
6 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 28 (30.43%) Threat Intelligence
2 26 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (21.74%) Customer Service
4 19 (20.65%) Incident Response
4 19 (20.65%) Security Operations
5 16 (17.39%) DevOps
5 16 (17.39%) ITIL
5 16 (17.39%) Software Engineering
6 15 (16.30%) Actionable Insight
6 15 (16.30%) Open Source
7 14 (15.22%) Computer Security
7 14 (15.22%) Data Science
7 14 (15.22%) High Availability
7 14 (15.22%) Incident Management
7 14 (15.22%) Malware Analysis
7 14 (15.22%) Resource Management
7 14 (15.22%) Situational Awareness
7 14 (15.22%) User Experience
7 14 (15.22%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.39%) Python
2 15 (16.30%) Java
3 14 (15.22%) Bash
3 14 (15.22%) Go
3 14 (15.22%) Scala
4 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (19.57%) Degree
2 16 (17.39%) CISM
2 16 (17.39%) CISSP
3 14 (15.22%) GCIA
3 14 (15.22%) GCIH
3 14 (15.22%) GREM
4 1 (1.09%) CISA
4 1 (1.09%) CRISC
4 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.09%) MCSE
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.70%) GDPR
2 7 (7.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (6.52%) NIST
4 5 (5.43%) NCSC
5 4 (4.35%) SLA
6 2 (2.17%) DICOM
6 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.09%) QA
7 1 (1.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (10.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.17%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.17%) Terraform
4 1 (1.09%) SCCM
4 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (30.43%) Dell
2 21 (22.83%) Google
3 13 (14.13%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
4 4 (4.35%) ConnectWise
4 4 (4.35%) CyberArk
5 3 (3.26%) Cisco
6 2 (2.17%) VMware
7 1 (1.09%) Apple
7 1 (1.09%) Aruba
7 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.09%) Citrix
7 1 (1.09%) Juniper
7 1 (1.09%) Meraki
7 1 (1.09%) Okta
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle
7 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.09%) Splunk