Def Stans Job Trends in Belfast

UK Defence Standards (Def Stans)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Def Stans skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Def Stans 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 0.19% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.35% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
County Antrim median annual salary - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Belfast

Def Stans falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 74 29 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 14.15% 12.78% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 14 11 23
10th Percentile £34,525 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £42,813 £57,750 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +3.70% +35.00%
75th Percentile £59,688 £87,916 £71,250
90th Percentile £68,575 £93,750 £89,250
County Antrim median annual salary £45,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -35.71% +3.70% +35.00%

Def Stans
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Information Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Assurance Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Security Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCSK
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Thales