Quality Assurance & Compliance Statistics in Scotland

Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
QA	40	-3	£36,000	-34.54%	142 4.90%	35
SLA	81	+42	£27,500	-60.71%	70 2.41%	18
Accessibility	94	+18	£79,328	+98.31%	56 1.93%	8
NIST	100	-15	£71,250	+14.00%	50 1.72%	5
GDPR	114	-6	£53,750	-2.27%	36 1.24%	16
NCSC	116	+13	£90,000	+44.00%	34 1.17%	3
Data Quality	123	-45	£90,000	+100.00%	27 0.93%	19
ISO/IEC 15288	134	-	£75,900	-	16 0.55%
ISO/IEC 27001	135	-67	£64,210	-14.38%	15 0.52%	12
ISO/IEC 12207	137	-	£85,700	-	13 0.45%
IEC 61508	138	-7	£60,000	-	12 0.41%
MISRA C	139	-	£60,000	-	11 0.38%
MISRA	139	-9	£60,000	-4.00%	11 0.38%
PMO	139	-17	£60,000	+17.31%	11 0.38%	3
PCI DSS	140	-25	£63,750	-36.25%	10 0.34%	3
WCAG	141	-10	£70,079	-	9 0.31%
Cyber Essentials	143	-23	£27,000	-59.85%	7 0.24%	2
ISO 9001	145	-34	£32,500	-67.50%	5 0.17%	2
GRC	146	-28	£70,000	+9.80%	4 0.14%
IFRS	146	-29	-	-	4 0.14%
GxP	146	-	£35,000	-	4 0.14%
GAAP	146	-24	-	-	4 0.14%
COBIT	146	-26	-	-	4 0.14%	1
ISO 14001	147	-28	£32,500	-67.50%	3 0.10%
ISO 19650	147	-	-	-	3 0.10%
Cyber Essentials PLUS	148	-20	£63,750	+27.50%	2 0.069%	1
PERC	148	-	£70,000	-	2 0.069%
IEC 61131	148	-	-	-	2 0.069%
ISO/IEC 19770	148	-	-	-	2 0.069%
Disclosure Scotland	148	-17	-	-	2 0.069%	4
P3O	149	-	-	-	1 0.035%
Actionable Recommendations	149	-18	-	-	1 0.035%
NIST 800	149	-25	£70,000	+9.80%	1 0.035%
HAZOP	149	-	-	-	1 0.035%
SOC 2	149	-28	£70,000	-6.66%	1 0.035%	5