Quality Assurance & Compliance Statistics in Scotland

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
QA	39	Up 39 places+39	£31,500	+42.34%	132 3.31%	146
Accessibility	81	Down -31 places-31	£37,750	-31.18%	64 1.61%	142
Data Quality	96	Up 24 places+24	£68,658	+30.15%	49 1.23%	143
GDPR	106	Up 15 places+15	£53,750	-2.01%	39 0.98%	47
ISO/IEC 27001	117	Up 3 places+3	£82,250	+18.77%	28 0.70%	51
NIST	119	No change0	£85,000	+9.76%	26 0.65%	28
SLA	123	Up 20 places+20	£28,000	+13.98%	22 0.55%	19
ISO 9001	129	Up 14 places+14	£60,000	-11.11%	16 0.40%	12
Cyber Essentials	130	Up 14 places+14	£60,000	+4.34%	15 0.38%	22
NCSC	134	Up 8 places+8	£53,400	-19.01%	11 0.28%	23
PMO	136	Down -2 places-2	£55,000	-8.33%	9 0.23%	33
NEBOSH	136	New entry-	-	-	9 0.23%	2
Sarbanes-Oxley	137	Up 3 places+3	£105,000	-	8 0.20%	10
GRC	137	Up 8 places+8	£132,500	+91.34%	8 0.20%	22
Cyber Essentials PLUS	138	Up 8 places+8	£63,750	+70.00%	7 0.18%	17
ISO/IEC 17025	140	New entry-	-	-	5 0.13%	2
ISO 19650	141	Up 1 place+1	£37,500	-	4 0.10%	13
COSHH	141	Up 3 places+3	-	-	4 0.10%	3
NIST 800	141	Up 7 places+7	-	-	4 0.10%	4
SOC 2	142	Up 4 places+4	-	-	3 0.075%	6
JTAG	142	Up 5 places+5	£47,500	-	3 0.075%	4
ISO 14001	143	New entry-	£60,000	-	2 0.050%	6
Actionable Recommendations	143	Up 2 places+2	-	-	2 0.050%	11
COBIT	143	Up 2 places+2	-	-	2 0.050%
HL7	143	New entry-	£85,000	-	2 0.050%
DICOM	143	New entry-	£85,000	-	2 0.050%	1
IEC 61131	143	Up 4 places+4	-	-	2 0.050%
GAAP	144	Down -29 places-29	-	-	1 0.025%	3
UCITS	144	New entry-	-	-	1 0.025%
Def Stans	144	New entry-	-	-	1 0.025%	5
ECSS	144	Up 4 places+4	-	-	1 0.025%	3
IFRS	144	Down -29 places-29	-	-	1 0.025%	2
DO-160	144	New entry-	-	-	1 0.025%	4
ISO/IEC 42001	144	New entry-	£97,500	-	1 0.025%	2
ISO 22301	144	Up 4 places+4	£69,673	+14.31%	1 0.025%	2
ISO/IEC 27005	144	New entry-	£53,400	-	1 0.025%	4
HAZOP	144	Up 2 places+2	-	-	1 0.025%	7
GMP	144	New entry-	£34,130	-	1 0.025%	3