Cyber Defence Jobs in Scotland

Cyber Defence
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 209 243
Rank change year-on-year -66 +34 -52
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 2 6 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.029% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.065% 0.35% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £71,600 £48,750 -
25th Percentile £71,750 £50,313 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £56,693 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.53% -33.30% +30.77%
75th Percentile £76,750 £80,651 £92,500
90th Percentile £77,200 £87,500 -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% +4.35% -17.86%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Cyber Defence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,079 1,713 3,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 44.92% 39.82% 50.38%
Number of salaries quoted 872 735 1,138
10th Percentile £28,875 £32,657 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% +5.11% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,419 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Defence in Scotland

Cyber Defence
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Cyber Defence in Scotland

Cyber Defence
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Defence within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Glasgow - 2 £74,000 -
Cyber Defence
UK

Cyber Defence
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) IoT
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Facilities Management
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) SAFe Practitioner
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
1 2 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (100.00%) PMP
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft