NIST Contracts in Central London

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 122 176
Rank change year-on-year +36 +54 -32
Contract jobs citing NIST 46 54 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.90% 1.43% 0.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.06% 11.20% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 37 19
10th Percentile £340 £483 -
25th Percentile £518 £563 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £650
90th Percentile £875 £850 £701
London median daily rate £638 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -5.56% +8.00% +4.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 416 482 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.15% 12.78% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 349 457
10th Percentile £363 £375 £355
25th Percentile £463 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +6.02%
75th Percentile £658 £725 £638
90th Percentile £775 £838 £754
London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £17.96 £21.40 £20.00
25th Percentile £20.44 £22.00 £25.25
Median hourly rate £23.40 £23.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -43.37% +186.21%
75th Percentile £25.92 £24.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £35.16 £24.80 £62.20
London median hourly rate £24.34 £30.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.85% -30.90% +122.50%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Central London

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in Central London

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Central London

NIST
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +35 45 £625 -3.85% 11
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - -
NIST
London

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) IIS
1 1 (2.17%) Jupyter
1 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.87%) AWS
4 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 3 (6.52%) GitHub
6 2 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Firewall
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) DHCP
3 1 (2.17%) DMZ
3 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (2.17%) Big Data
1 1 (2.17%) CouchDB
1 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.17%) MySQL
1 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.17%) Redis
1 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) CircleCI
1 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Darcs
2 1 (2.17%) Git
2 1 (2.17%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.17%) Mercurial
2 1 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.17%) RStudio
2 1 (2.17%) Travis CI
General
1 23 (50.00%) Finance
2 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Local Government
4 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.52%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.35%) Advertising
6 2 (4.35%) International Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Retail
7 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Consultant
2 10 (21.74%) Security Consultant
3 7 (15.22%) Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Architect
4 6 (13.04%) Security Analyst
5 5 (10.87%) Information Security Consultant
5 5 (10.87%) Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Security Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Information Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Information Security Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) IT Security Specialist
7 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Security Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Security Specialist
7 3 (6.52%) Senior
7 3 (6.52%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.35%) IT Manager
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.17%) CSS
1 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.17%) HTML
1 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.17%) React
1 1 (2.17%) REST
1 1 (2.17%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 5 (10.87%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.17%) CBDC
4 1 (2.17%) Digital Currency
4 1 (2.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
1 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
1 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (67.39%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (47.83%) Information Security
3 16 (34.78%) Risk Management
4 11 (23.91%) Due Diligence
5 10 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
5 10 (21.74%) Performance Management
5 10 (21.74%) Validation
6 9 (19.57%) Risk Assessment
7 8 (17.39%) Security Architecture
7 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (13.04%) Business Strategy
8 6 (13.04%) Cyber Resilience
8 6 (13.04%) Data Protection
9 5 (10.87%) Business Continuity
9 5 (10.87%) Cloud Security
9 5 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (10.87%) Information Security Governance
9 5 (10.87%) OWASP
10 4 (8.70%) Agile
10 4 (8.70%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.17%) C
1 1 (2.17%) C#
1 1 (2.17%) C++
1 1 (2.17%) Go
1 1 (2.17%) Java
1 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
1 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.17%) Python
1 1 (2.17%) R
1 1 (2.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) CISSP
2 10 (21.74%) CISM
3 5 (10.87%) CRISC
3 5 (10.87%) Degree
4 3 (6.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (6.52%) CCSK
4 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) CISA
5 2 (4.35%) FFIEC
6 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (65.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (19.57%) PCI DSS
3 5 (10.87%) GRC
4 4 (8.70%) NCSC
4 4 (8.70%) NIST 800
5 3 (6.52%) GDPR
5 3 (6.52%) ISO 31000
6 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (4.35%) ISO 22301
6 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (2.17%) ISAE 3402
7 1 (2.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Terraform
2 2 (4.35%) Ansible
2 2 (4.35%) Kibana
2 2 (4.35%) logstash
3 1 (2.17%) Grafana
3 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) Packer
3 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.70%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.17%) IBM
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Splunk