NIST Job Trends in Lanarkshire

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

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NIST 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Lanarkshire 2.44% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median annual salary £71,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% +4.17% -14.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Lanarkshire

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 Lanarkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10 6 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lanarkshire 24.39% 9.23% 44.44%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 14
10th Percentile - - £41,000
25th Percentile - - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.92%
75th Percentile - - £57,500
90th Percentile - - £62,750
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lanarkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory