NIST Job Trends in Edinburgh

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring NIST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 81 105
Rank change year-on-year -13 +24 +45
Permanent jobs citing NIST 12 19 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.13% 1.71% 0.47%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.28% 9.09% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £76,000 - £42,625
25th Percentile £85,000 £49,500 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £62,533
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -12.05% -16.62%
75th Percentile - £58,500 £68,833
90th Percentile - £59,400 £72,533
Scotland median annual salary £72,500 £59,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.34% +8.64% -18.52%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

NIST 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 145 209 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.69% 18.76% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 46 31 102
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,500 £31,450
25th Percentile £39,219 £41,250 £46,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -9.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £87,500 £72,072 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,648 £82,418
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NIST relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

NIST job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

NIST
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing NIST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing NIST

NIST
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for NIST in Edinburgh

NIST
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
1 8 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Risk Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) React
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (66.67%) Product Ownership
1 8 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 8 (66.67%) Coaching
1 8 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
1 8 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Strategy
1 8 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 8 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 8 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
1 8 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (25.00%) Application Security
2 3 (25.00%) OWASP
2 3 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) GRC
2 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow