NCSC Job Trends in West Lothian

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Scotland > West Lothian

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Lothian requiring NCSC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Lothian 1.60% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.57% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median annual salary £85,882 £53,750 £42,250
% change year-on-year +59.78% +27.22% -30.74%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Lothian

NCSC 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 West Lothian.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7 8 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Lothian 5.60% 6.02% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £130,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +147.62% +31.25%
75th Percentile - - £56,250
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,291
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.36% +14.58%

NCSC
Job Locations in West Lothian

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the West Lothian region over the 6 months to 8 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
Livingston - 1 - -
NCSC
Scotland

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Lothian 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Broadband
General
1 2 (100.00%) Games
1 2 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) IAM Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory