IEC 61508 Job Trends in Edinburgh

IEC 61508
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring IEC 61508 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing IEC 61508 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.10% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.78% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £65,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

IEC 61508 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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 129 238 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.45% 18.51% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 39 45 97
10th Percentile £26,500 £21,840 £32,950
25th Percentile £44,500 £35,000 £46,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,248 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.88% -30.77% +18.44%
75th Percentile £90,000 £61,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,648 £79,353
Scotland median annual salary £61,250 £54,175 £59,556
% change year-on-year +13.06% -9.03% +19.11%

IEC 61508
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CAN bus
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Safety Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) MISRA
1 1 (100.00%) MISRA C
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Safety