Cybersecurity Jobs in Scotland

Cybersecurity
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 26 43
Rank change year-on-year -55 +17 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 317 421 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.72% 9.21% 5.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 9.77% 6.56%
Number of salaries quoted 140 146 136
10th Percentile £32,250 £36,250 £37,934
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,512 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.70% -0.79% +2.13%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,192 4,310 5,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.23% 94.31% 91.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,403 2,153 2,812
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,297 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £42,000 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Scotland

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Scotland

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Scotland

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Glasgow -80 170 £60,000 -14.29% 19
Edinburgh +4 98 £57,763 -0.41% 17
Aberdeen -20 17 £47,500 -32.14% 1
Aberdeenshire - 6 £45,000 - 1
North Lanarkshire - 5 £45,000 -
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Dundee -11 3 £55,380 +15.09%
Stirling - 3 £50,000 - 2
Highlands - 3 £60,000 -
Lanarkshire -5 2 £45,000 - 7
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £40,000 - 1
Falkirk - 2 £50,000 - 1
Fife -6 1 £60,000 +60.00%
Argyll and Bute - 1 - - 2
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (7.26%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.31%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.42%) FileNet
4 10 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.95%) IIS
6 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.63%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.84%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (30.91%) AWS
2 60 (18.93%) Azure
3 54 (17.03%) SaaS
4 47 (14.83%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (11.67%) Amazon S3
6 35 (11.04%) GCP
7 31 (9.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 31 (9.78%) Datadog
8 27 (8.52%) Google Docs
9 23 (7.26%) Amazon SQS
9 23 (7.26%) Lucidchart
9 23 (7.26%) Miro
9 23 (7.26%) Slack
10 17 (5.36%) PaaS
11 15 (4.73%) Entra ID
12 14 (4.42%) IaaS
13 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (2.21%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.89%) ChatGPT
14 6 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.15%) Firewall
2 10 (3.15%) Network Security
3 7 (2.21%) WAN
4 6 (1.89%) DNS
4 6 (1.89%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.89%) VPN
5 5 (1.58%) DHCP
6 4 (1.26%) IMAP
6 4 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.26%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.95%) LAN
8 2 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.63%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.32%) Internet
9 1 (0.32%) RSVP
9 1 (0.32%) VLAN
9 1 (0.32%) Wireless
9 1 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.67%) Elasticsearch
2 27 (8.52%) Big Data
3 23 (7.26%) Hadoop
3 23 (7.26%) Redis
3 23 (7.26%) Scylla
4 17 (5.36%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.42%) Apache Cassandra
6 13 (4.10%) MySQL
7 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.95%) Tableau
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (0.63%) Power BI
8 2 (0.63%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 14 (4.42%) JUnit
2 3 (0.95%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 124 (39.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 122 (38.49%) Social Skills
3 121 (38.17%) Finance
4 96 (30.28%) Law
5 30 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.73%) Military
6 15 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (4.10%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.79%) Marketing
9 9 (2.84%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.21%) Banking
11 6 (1.89%) Legal
12 5 (1.58%) Retail
13 4 (1.26%) Billing
13 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.63%) Games
15 1 (0.32%) Agriculture
15 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.32%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 108 (34.07%) Software Engineer
2 46 (14.51%) Lead
3 42 (13.25%) Analyst
4 38 (11.99%) Senior
5 36 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (10.41%) Principal Engineer
7 31 (9.78%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 30 (9.46%) Principal Software Engineer
9 19 (5.99%) Architect
10 18 (5.68%) Security Engineer
11 17 (5.36%) Security Analyst
12 16 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (5.05%) AWS Software Engineer
12 16 (5.05%) Full Stack Engineer
12 16 (5.05%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 16 (5.05%) Java Engineer
12 16 (5.05%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (4.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 14 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
13 14 (4.42%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.67%) GraphQL
1 37 (11.67%) Kafka
2 31 (9.78%) OpenTelemetry
3 30 (9.46%) Spring
4 27 (8.52%) AngularJS
4 27 (8.52%) React
5 15 (4.73%) J2EE
6 14 (4.42%) CSS
6 14 (4.42%) Hibernate
6 14 (4.42%) HTML
6 14 (4.42%) JMS
6 14 (4.42%) jQuery
6 14 (4.42%) JSON
6 14 (4.42%) Node.js
6 14 (4.42%) REST
6 14 (4.42%) Spring Integration
6 14 (4.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 13 (4.10%) JPA
8 9 (2.84%) SAML
9 7 (2.21%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 58 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 57 (17.98%) Public Cloud
3 52 (16.40%) Algorithms
4 46 (14.51%) Management Information System
5 23 (7.26%) Data Structures
6 19 (5.99%) Operational Technology
7 16 (5.05%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (2.84%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.52%) Security Posture
10 7 (2.21%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.89%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
13 4 (1.26%) Cyber Security Posture
13 4 (1.26%) Cyberattack
13 4 (1.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.26%) IoT
14 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.95%) Mainframe
14 3 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.40%) Windows
2 35 (11.04%) Linux
3 24 (7.57%) Unix
4 14 (4.42%) Mac OS X
4 14 (4.42%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.52%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.58%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.63%) VMS
8 1 (0.32%) Android
8 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (36.28%) Software Engineering
2 105 (33.12%) Agile
3 99 (31.23%) SDLC
4 88 (27.76%) Artificial Intelligence
4 88 (27.76%) Machine Learning
5 83 (26.18%) CI/CD
6 80 (25.24%) Community of Practice
6 80 (25.24%) Operational Stability
7 65 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (15.46%) Identity Access Management
10 45 (14.20%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 45 (14.20%) Threat Intelligence
11 44 (13.88%) Visualisation
12 43 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 40 (12.62%) Roadmaps
14 38 (11.99%) Analytics
15 37 (11.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 35 (11.04%) Security Operations
17 34 (10.73%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 107 (33.75%) Java
2 26 (8.20%) Python
3 23 (7.26%) Bash
3 23 (7.26%) Go
3 23 (7.26%) Scala
4 20 (6.31%) SQL
5 14 (4.42%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.42%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.84%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (11.99%) CISSP
2 34 (10.73%) CISM
3 31 (9.78%) Degree
4 15 (4.73%) GCIA
4 15 (4.73%) GCIH
4 15 (4.73%) Security Cleared
5 14 (4.42%) GREM
5 14 (4.42%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.89%) CCNA
8 4 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.26%) SSCP
9 3 (0.95%) CCNP
10 2 (0.63%) CISA
10 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.46%) NIST
2 22 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (4.73%) GDPR
4 14 (4.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.52%) NCSC
6 5 (1.58%) ISO 22301
6 5 (1.58%) SLA
7 4 (1.26%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.63%) DICOM
9 2 (0.63%) GRC
9 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.63%) QA
10 1 (0.32%) COBIT
10 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (5.99%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.95%) Docker
3 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.32%) RACF
Systems Management
1 56 (17.67%) Kubernetes
2 44 (13.88%) Terraform
3 31 (9.78%) Grafana
4 13 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.26%) SCCM
6 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.63%) WSUS
8 1 (0.32%) Nessus
Vendors
1 61 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 44 (13.88%) Dell
3 39 (12.30%) Oracle
4 32 (10.09%) Splunk
5 31 (9.78%) Dynatrace
5 31 (9.78%) Google
6 16 (5.05%) Databricks
7 10 (3.15%) Cisco
7 10 (3.15%) IFS
8 9 (2.84%) Epicor
8 9 (2.84%) JD Edwards
9 5 (1.58%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.58%) Sophos
10 4 (1.26%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (1.26%) ConnectWise
11 3 (0.95%) VMware
12 2 (0.63%) Apple
12 2 (0.63%) Citrix
12 2 (0.63%) Meraki
13 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow