NIST 800 Contract Job Trends in Scotland

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring NIST 800 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 109 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.063% 0.27% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.39% 1.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £501 -
25th Percentile £418 £512 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% - -
75th Percentile £473 - -
90th Percentile - £552 -
UK median daily rate £510 £655 £667
% change year-on-year -22.14% -1.80% -1.19%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

NIST 800 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 257 354 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.30% 19.01% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 217 365
10th Percentile £196 £182 £200
25th Percentile £400 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £530 £532 £530
90th Percentile £575 £600 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 18 5
10th Percentile £14.05 - £13.70
25th Percentile £15.77 £13.52 £14.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £14.98 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +133.64% -31.13% +15.08%
75th Percentile £61.56 £15.23 £47.73
90th Percentile £71.50 £26.86 £56.59
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.57
% change year-on-year +9.09% -22.68% +54.63%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing NIST 800 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for NIST 800 in Scotland

NIST 800
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing NIST 800.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing NIST 800

NIST 800
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST 800 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 September 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +8 1 £445 -19.09% 2
NIST 800
UK

NIST 800
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) SailPoint
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7