NIST Contracts in Birmingham

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for NIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NIST over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 69 94
Rank change year-on-year +16 +25 -39
Contract jobs citing NIST 14 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.81% 0.66% 0.076%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.96% 5.17% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £378 £551 -
25th Percentile £406 £553 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £563 £700
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -19.64% -
75th Percentile £731 £578 £750
90th Percentile £810 £584 -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £613 £713
% change year-on-year -10.20% -14.04% +5.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Birmingham

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 108 116 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.97% 12.83% 14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 66 129
10th Percentile £259 £263 £219
25th Percentile £264 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £419 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -11.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £594
90th Percentile £733 £650 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £459
% change year-on-year - +8.93% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 3
10th Percentile £11.06 £10.96 £17.20
25th Percentile £12.30 £12.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £13.35 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -33.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £14.00 £20.85 -
90th Percentile £55.00 £29.51 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.00 £16.10 £17.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% -5.29% -5.56%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for NIST in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Birmingham over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (7.14%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (71.43%) Legal
2 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Analyst
1 10 (71.43%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Junior
2 1 (7.14%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Lead
2 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Security Manager
2 1 (7.14%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
2 10 (71.43%) Mac OS X
3 1 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Cybersecurity
1 13 (92.86%) SIEM
2 11 (78.57%) Risk Management
2 11 (78.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 10 (71.43%) Computer Forensics
3 10 (71.43%) Incident Management
3 10 (71.43%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 10 (71.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 10 (71.43%) Purple Team
3 10 (71.43%) Reverse Engineering
3 10 (71.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 10 (71.43%) Threat Analysis
4 5 (35.71%) Line Management
4 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
6 2 (14.29%) Contingency Planning
6 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 2 (14.29%) Security Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
6 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (71.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 10 (71.43%) GDPR
2 10 (71.43%) HIPAA
3 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Rapid7
1 2 (14.29%) Sophos
2 1 (7.14%) F5
2 1 (7.14%) Qualys
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk