NIST Job Trends in Glasgow

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring NIST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 49 81
Rank change year-on-year -12 +32 +29
Permanent jobs citing NIST 4 29 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.53% 3.30% 0.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.35% 22.66% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 5
10th Percentile £41,500 £50,000 £38,450
25th Percentile £49,375 £52,188 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,750 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +26.34% -28.46%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,750 £78,750 £71,000
Scotland median annual salary £90,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +57.89% +3.64% -21.43%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 63 128 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.36% 14.58% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 29 71 52
10th Percentile £22,129 £36,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,541 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.71% +20.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £110,000 £72,500
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £54,338 £59,556
% change year-on-year +10.42% -8.76% +19.11%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

NIST job vacancy trend in Glasgow

NIST
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing NIST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing NIST

NIST
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Salary histogram for NIST in Glasgow

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Information Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Server Management
3 1 (25.00%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) GRC
2 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware