Application Security Jobs in Scotland

Application Security (AppSec)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Application Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Application Security 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 261 205 218
Rank change year-on-year -56 +13 -34
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 16 10 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.23% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.25% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 18
10th Percentile £34,675 £38,500 £37,493
25th Percentile £44,500 £42,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £44,876 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.99% -40.17% +36.36%
75th Percentile £70,625 £50,002 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £59,117 £99,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Application Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,134 4,071 5,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.50% 94.63% 91.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,562 2,041 2,892
10th Percentile £28,025 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £41,250
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Security in Scotland

Application Security
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Application Security in Scotland

Application Security
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Security in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Application Security in Scotland

Application Security
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security 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 -91 15 £52,500 +14.75% 1
Application Security
UK

Application Security
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 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (50.00%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Gradle
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 9 (56.25%) Law
3 6 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (37.50%) Marketing
4 3 (18.75%) Legal
5 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Lead
2 6 (37.50%) Lead Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Senior
2 6 (37.50%) Senior Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) IT Security Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Junior
6 1 (6.25%) Junior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) OAuth
1 7 (43.75%) SAML
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Laravel
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) Vue
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 4 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
3 9 (56.25%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (43.75%) SDLC
5 6 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (37.50%) Decision-Making
5 6 (37.50%) Machine Learning
5 6 (37.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 6 (37.50%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (37.50%) Wealth Management
6 5 (31.25%) DevOps
7 4 (25.00%) Analytics
7 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
7 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
7 4 (25.00%) Information Security
7 4 (25.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 4 (25.00%) SIEM
7 4 (25.00%) SOAR
7 4 (25.00%) Use Case
7 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bash
1 1 (6.25%) Groovy
1 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.25%) PHP
1 1 (6.25%) Python
1 1 (6.25%) Ruby
1 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 6 (37.50%) CISM
1 6 (37.50%) CISSP
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) NIST
2 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (25.00%) SOC 2
3 2 (12.50%) NCSC
4 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft