NIST Job Trends in Stirling

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stirling requiring NIST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 9 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Permanent jobs citing NIST 1 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stirling 1.75% 7.69% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.14% 50.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median annual salary £85,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +54.55% -8.33% -11.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Stirling

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 Stirling.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 14 10 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stirling 24.56% 15.38% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - £32,050 -
25th Percentile - £35,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -19.05% +31.25%
75th Percentile - £45,625 £53,750
90th Percentile - £46,750 -
Scotland median annual salary £60,950 £52,500 £56,219
% change year-on-year +16.10% -6.62% +12.44%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Stirling

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

NIST job vacancy trend in Stirling

NIST
Job Locations in Stirling

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Stirling region over the 6 months to 4 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stirlingshire -8 1 - - 3
NIST
Scotland

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stirling 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
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%) CyberArk Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk