Quality Assurance & Compliance Statistics in Scotland

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
QA	43	Up 40 places+40	£31,500	-47.50%	116 3.40%	45
Accessibility	93	Down -41 places-41	£39,197	-51.00%	46 1.35%	24
GDPR	98	Up 32 places+32	£57,500	+4.54%	41 1.20%	23
Data Quality	107	Up 4 places+4	£70,000	+33.33%	32 0.94%	37
NIST	116	Up 1 place+1	£105,000	+31.25%	23 0.67%	19
ISO/IEC 27001	118	Down -4 places-4	£86,000	+24.19%	21 0.62%	23
ISO 9001	121	Up 19 places+19	£45,000	-33.33%	18 0.53%	10
SLA	121	Up 22 places+22	£28,000	-21.62%	18 0.53%	10
Cyber Essentials	125	Up 9 places+9	£60,000	+50.00%	14 0.41%	6
NCSC	128	Up 9 places+9	£55,000	-32.73%	11 0.32%	5
NEBOSH	131	Up 14 places+14	-	-	8 0.23%	3
Cyber Essentials PLUS	132	Up 11 places+11	£60,000	+60.00%	7 0.21%	2
PMO	132	No change0	£55,000	-8.33%	7 0.21%	7
ISO/IEC 17025	134	New entry-	-	-	5 0.15%	1
Sarbanes-Oxley	134	Down -15 places-15	£105,000	-	5 0.15%	2
GRC	134	Up 8 places+8	£98,750	+42.60%	5 0.15%	9
COBIT	135	Down -1 place-1	-	-	4 0.12%	3
COSHH	135	Up 6 places+6	-	-	4 0.12%
SOC 2	135	Up 7 places+7	£60,000	-4.00%	4 0.12%	7
NIST 800	136	Up 9 places+9	-	-	3 0.088%
WCAG	136	New entry-	£62,500	-	3 0.088%	1
HL7	137	New entry-	£85,000	-	2 0.059%	1
DICOM	137	New entry-	£85,000	-	2 0.059%	1
ISO 19650	137	Up 5 places+5	£48,750	-	2 0.059%	6
IEC 61131	137	New entry-	-	-	2 0.059%
JTAG	137	Up 7 places+7	£47,500	-	2 0.059%	1
ISO 22301	138	Up 6 places+6	£69,673	+42.26%	1 0.029%	3
ISO/IEC 15288	138	New entry-	£75,900	-	1 0.029%
UCITS	138	New entry-	-	-	1 0.029%
Actionable Recommendations	138	Up 3 places+3	-	-	1 0.029%	4