National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for NIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NIST over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 330 471
Rank change year-on-year -1 +141 +9
Permanent jobs citing NIST 870 984 1,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 1.04% 0.77%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.33% 5.67% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 711 712 779
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £84,919 £86,250 £83,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,125 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

NIST is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,751 17,364 29,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.07% 18.32% 17.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9,220 8,453 13,464
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,100 £93,650 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% +1.05%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the UK

NIST
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NIST.

Salary trend for NIST in the UK

NIST
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in the UK

NIST
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
England +29 802 £67,500 -3.57% 187
UK excluding London +10 551 £60,000 -4.00% 105
Work from Home -38 307 £67,000 -4.29% 73
London +11 281 £75,000 - 79
South East -9 156 £50,500 -22.31% 27
North of England +78 153 £57,500 -4.17% 20
South West +23 107 £80,000 +18.52% 18
North West +21 95 £60,000 +20.00% 13
Midlands -53 74 £70,000 +16.67% 24
West Midlands -55 63 £72,500 +16.94% 17
Scotland -54 39 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Yorkshire +52 34 £55,000 -21.43% 6
North East +11 24 £42,500 -14.36% 1
East of England -10 17 £72,500 +3.57% 6
East Midlands -14 8 £47,500 -15.93% 7
Isle of Man -17 4 £46,500 -17.33% 1
Wales +3 1 £85,000 +54.55% 1

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (1.84%) IIS
2 4 (0.46%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.23%) Confluence
4 1 (0.11%) Apache
4 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.46%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 220 (25.29%) Azure
2 176 (20.23%) AWS
3 89 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (4.37%) GCP
5 29 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
6 28 (3.22%) Azure Sentinel
7 27 (3.10%) Entra ID
7 27 (3.10%) SaaS
8 25 (2.87%) IaaS
8 25 (2.87%) PaaS
9 23 (2.64%) Microsoft Purview
10 21 (2.41%) Amazon S3
10 21 (2.41%) Serverless
11 17 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.61%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 160 (18.39%) Firewall
1 160 (18.39%) Network Security
2 67 (7.70%) WAN
3 37 (4.25%) Intrusion Detection
4 36 (4.14%) SD-WAN
5 32 (3.68%) VPN
6 29 (3.33%) LAN
7 28 (3.22%) TCP/IP
8 25 (2.87%) Wireshark
9 19 (2.18%) Internet
10 18 (2.07%) DNS
11 9 (1.03%) Wireless
12 7 (0.80%) SSL
12 7 (0.80%) VoIP
13 6 (0.69%) DMZ
14 5 (0.57%) 5G
15 4 (0.46%) tcpdump
15 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
16 3 (0.34%) BGP
16 3 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (1.49%) Power BI
3 6 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (0.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.11%) Redis
4 1 (0.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (2.07%) GitLab
2 12 (1.38%) JIRA
3 4 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.34%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.34%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.34%) sqlmap
5 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.11%) Git
6 1 (0.11%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 222 (25.52%) Finance
2 204 (23.45%) Social Skills
3 107 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (7.47%) Legal
5 50 (5.75%) Law
6 49 (5.63%) Military
7 46 (5.29%) Retail
8 40 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (3.68%) Public Sector
10 28 (3.22%) Aerospace
11 26 (2.99%) Marketing
12 23 (2.64%) Banking
12 23 (2.64%) Telecoms
13 19 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.61%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.26%) Aviation
16 8 (0.92%) Advertising
16 8 (0.92%) Automotive
17 6 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 172 (19.77%) Analyst
2 141 (16.21%) Consultant
3 135 (15.52%) Security Consultant
4 124 (14.25%) Security Analyst
5 120 (13.79%) Senior
6 112 (12.87%) Architect
7 104 (11.95%) Lead
8 100 (11.49%) Security Specialist
9 89 (10.23%) Security Engineer
10 86 (9.89%) Security Architect
11 81 (9.31%) Cybersecurity Specialist
12 77 (8.85%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 70 (8.05%) Security Manager
14 55 (6.32%) Information Analyst
14 55 (6.32%) Information Security Analyst
15 53 (6.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 40 (4.60%) Lead Architect
17 35 (4.02%) Information Manager
18 33 (3.79%) Information Security Manager
19 30 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (1.61%) SAML
2 14 (1.61%) Web Services
3 12 (1.38%) OAuth
4 11 (1.26%) REST
5 9 (1.03%) SOAP
6 4 (0.46%) Kafka
6 4 (0.46%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.34%) AWS SAM
7 3 (0.34%) Sass
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.23%) OpenID
9 1 (0.11%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.11%) CSS
9 1 (0.11%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.11%) NestJS
9 1 (0.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 171 (19.66%) Management Information System
2 91 (10.46%) Security Posture
3 87 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 63 (7.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 63 (7.24%) Cyber Threat
5 57 (6.55%) Cyber Defence
6 51 (5.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 38 (4.37%) Operational Technology
8 29 (3.33%) Cyberattack
9 25 (2.87%) Onboarding
9 25 (2.87%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.64%) Data Centre
11 22 (2.53%) Product Ownership
12 20 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (2.18%) Cloud Native
14 17 (1.95%) CESG
15 14 (1.61%) Cyber Security Posture
15 14 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.38%) Private Cloud
16 12 (1.38%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 76 (8.74%) Windows
2 42 (4.83%) Linux
3 27 (3.10%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.07%) Unix
5 14 (1.61%) Android
5 14 (1.61%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.49%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.92%) Kali Linux
8 7 (0.80%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.57%) CentOS
11 4 (0.46%) Solaris
11 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.46%) Windows XP
11 4 (0.46%) zOS
12 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.23%) AIX
13 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 600 (68.97%) Cybersecurity
2 477 (54.83%) Information Security
3 231 (26.55%) Risk Management
4 202 (23.22%) SIEM
5 176 (20.23%) Security Architecture
6 170 (19.54%) Security Operations
7 163 (18.74%) Cloud Security
8 160 (18.39%) Incident Response
9 156 (17.93%) Vulnerability Management
10 120 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
11 119 (13.68%) Security Management
12 91 (10.46%) Application Security
12 91 (10.46%) OWASP
13 83 (9.54%) Agile
13 83 (9.54%) Incident Management
14 80 (9.20%) Identity Access Management
15 79 (9.08%) Computer Science
16 78 (8.97%) Information Security Management
17 72 (8.28%) Mentoring
18 71 (8.16%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 59 (6.78%) Python
2 32 (3.68%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.84%) SQL
4 7 (0.80%) Bash
4 7 (0.80%) Java
5 6 (0.69%) C
5 6 (0.69%) R
5 6 (0.69%) Scala
6 5 (0.57%) C++
7 2 (0.23%) Go
8 1 (0.11%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 316 (36.32%) CISSP
2 222 (25.52%) CISM
3 144 (16.55%) Degree
4 140 (16.09%) Security Cleared
5 103 (11.84%) CISA
6 96 (11.03%) Cisco Certification
7 92 (10.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 85 (9.77%) CCSP
9 79 (9.08%) AWS Certification
10 64 (7.36%) DV Cleared
11 59 (6.78%) CRISC
12 56 (6.44%) Azure Certification
12 56 (6.44%) CCSK
13 51 (5.86%) SC Cleared
14 39 (4.48%) CEH
15 33 (3.79%) SANS
16 32 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
17 31 (3.56%) PCI QSA
18 27 (3.10%) CompTIA Security+
19 26 (2.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 421 (48.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 176 (20.23%) GRC
3 133 (15.29%) PCI DSS
4 127 (14.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 126 (14.48%) GDPR
6 86 (9.89%) NIST 800
7 76 (8.74%) NCSC
8 70 (8.05%) Def Stans
9 55 (6.32%) COBIT
10 37 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 34 (3.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 31 (3.56%) JSP 440
13 26 (2.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 25 (2.87%) RMADS
15 19 (2.18%) SOC 2
16 15 (1.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 14 (1.61%) ISO 31000
18 13 (1.49%) HIPAA
19 8 (0.92%) ISO 22301
19 8 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 45 (5.17%) Docker
2 33 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 29 (3.33%) vSphere
4 14 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.34%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) Snort
7 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (5.98%) Single Sign-On
2 47 (5.40%) Kubernetes
3 28 (3.22%) Terraform
4 19 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.61%) Nmap
6 13 (1.49%) CASB
6 13 (1.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 10 (1.15%) Nessus
8 6 (0.69%) Ansible
9 5 (0.57%) Suricata
10 4 (0.46%) QRadar
11 3 (0.34%) SELinux
12 2 (0.23%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.23%) Packer
12 2 (0.23%) SCCM
13 1 (0.11%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.11%) SCOM
13 1 (0.11%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 155 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.48%) Splunk
3 32 (3.68%) Qualys
3 32 (3.68%) Tripwire
4 29 (3.33%) Tanium
5 28 (3.22%) Cisco
5 28 (3.22%) SolarWinds
6 17 (1.95%) Rapid7
7 15 (1.72%) Fortinet
8 14 (1.61%) Thycotic
9 12 (1.38%) Google
9 12 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.38%) VMware
10 10 (1.15%) Palo Alto
11 8 (0.92%) CA
12 7 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (0.80%) Juniper
12 7 (0.80%) Zscaler
13 6 (0.69%) Oracle
13 6 (0.69%) Symantec