NIST Job Trends in West Lothian

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Scotland > West Lothian

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Lothian requiring NIST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NIST 7 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Lothian 5.30% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 31.82% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £67,500 - -
25th Percentile £73,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £87,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £85,000 £74,870 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.53% +36.13% -15.47%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Lothian

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 West Lothian.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 22 14 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Lothian 16.67% 11.67% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £25,000 - £35,900
25th Percentile £27,236 - £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,815 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £83,438 - £91,250
90th Percentile £87,500 - £114,500
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £61,725 £46,767
% change year-on-year -23.05% +31.98% -14.97%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in West Lothian

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

NIST job vacancy trend in West Lothian

NIST
Salary Histogram in West Lothian

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in West Lothian over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for NIST in West Lothian

NIST
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 NIST within the West Lothian region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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 - 5 £85,000 - 1
NIST
Scotland

NIST
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Google Workspace
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Broadband
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) CyberArk Specialist
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) IAM Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) REST
1 6 (85.71%) SOAP
2 4 (57.14%) GraphQL
3 3 (42.86%) LDAP
3 3 (42.86%) OAuth
3 3 (42.86%) OpenID
3 3 (42.86%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Privileged Access Management
2 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) CRM
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Innovation
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (42.86%) NCSC
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce