NIST Job Trends in the Shetland Islands

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Scotland > Shetland Islands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Shetland Islands requiring NIST skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NIST 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Shetland Islands 20.00% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median annual salary £74,870 £55,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year +36.13% -15.47% +12.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Shetland Islands

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 the Shetland Islands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Shetland Islands 20.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median annual salary £62,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +31.58% -13.64% +10.55%

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Shetland Islands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of IT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Contract Negotiation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS