NIST Contracts in England

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 236 389
Rank change year-on-year +39 +153 -25
Contract jobs citing NIST 440 569 456
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.19% 1.13% 0.64%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.37% 8.44% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 394 311
10th Percentile £410 £471 £456
25th Percentile £520 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £738 £713 £738
90th Percentile £825 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 9
10th Percentile £33.48 £39.53 £52.05
25th Percentile £47.99 £51.25 £56.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £68.58
Median % change year-on-year +5.23% -6.47% +34.73%
75th Percentile £79.00 £72.98 £79.04
90th Percentile £81.36 £74.38 £81.85
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £65.79
% change year-on-year +5.23% -2.50% +31.58%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,258 6,740 9,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.22% 13.35% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,343 4,585 6,397
10th Percentile £300 £276 £288
25th Percentile £408 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year - +0.19% +10.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 206 260
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.94 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.05 £19.50 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.04 £41.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.90% +50.91% +30.95%
75th Percentile £44.69 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £79.88 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.39%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in England

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in England

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in England

NIST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NIST in England.

Hourly rate trend for NIST in England

NIST
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NIST in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for NIST in England

NIST
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London +50 213 £650 -3.70% 92
South West +43 85 £582 -6.88% 18
North of England +27 68 £650 +13.04% 16
South East -8 52 £613 -12.50% 30
North West +26 40 £650 +18.18% 11
Midlands +1 33 £550 -12.00% 21
West Midlands +6 31 £550 -10.20% 18
Yorkshire +15 24 £591 +2.78% 2
East of England +7 5 £662 +25.50% 12
North East +23 4 £575 -4.17% 3
East Midlands +18 2 £625 -10.71% 2
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (1.36%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.91%) Apache Solr
2 4 (0.91%) Confluence
2 4 (0.91%) nginx
3 2 (0.45%) IIS
3 2 (0.45%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.23%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.23%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 74 (16.82%) Azure
2 61 (13.86%) AWS
3 26 (5.91%) GCP
4 23 (5.23%) SaaS
5 22 (5.00%) IaaS
6 20 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (3.86%) PaaS
8 16 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (3.18%) Serverless
10 13 (2.95%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (2.50%) Entra ID
11 11 (2.50%) GitHub
12 6 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.36%) AWS CloudTrail
13 5 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (0.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 3 (0.68%) Amazon S3
16 2 (0.45%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (11.59%) Network Security
2 49 (11.14%) Firewall
3 21 (4.77%) DNS
4 17 (3.86%) TCP/IP
5 15 (3.41%) Intrusion Detection
6 12 (2.73%) Wireless
7 8 (1.82%) DHCP
8 4 (0.91%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.91%) Internet
8 4 (0.91%) IPsec
8 4 (0.91%) VPN
9 3 (0.68%) Broadband
10 2 (0.45%) DMZ
10 2 (0.45%) PPP
10 2 (0.45%) SNMP
11 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.23%) HTTP
11 1 (0.23%) SMTP
11 1 (0.23%) SSL
11 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.14%) MySQL
1 5 (1.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (0.91%) Big Data
2 4 (0.91%) Couchbase
3 3 (0.68%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.23%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (1.82%) JIRA
2 7 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.68%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.45%) Git
4 2 (0.45%) GitLab
4 2 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.45%) RStudio
5 1 (0.23%) Darcs
5 1 (0.23%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.23%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.23%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.23%) Travis CI
General
1 123 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 70 (15.91%) Finance
3 44 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 35 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.68%) Banking
6 24 (5.45%) Legal
7 22 (5.00%) Telecoms
8 17 (3.86%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.50%) Military
10 7 (1.59%) Local Government
11 6 (1.36%) Electronics
11 6 (1.36%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.91%) French Language
12 4 (0.91%) German Language
12 4 (0.91%) Marketing
12 4 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.91%) Retail
13 2 (0.45%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 126 (28.64%) Architect
2 90 (20.45%) Security Architect
3 81 (18.41%) Analyst
4 68 (15.45%) Consultant
5 59 (13.41%) Security Consultant
6 48 (10.91%) Lead
7 36 (8.18%) Senior
8 27 (6.14%) Security Analyst
9 24 (5.45%) Security Engineer
10 22 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 22 (5.00%) Senior Architect
11 20 (4.55%) Technical Architect
12 18 (4.09%) Cyber Defence Analyst
13 17 (3.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 16 (3.64%) Project Manager
14 16 (3.64%) Senior Security Architect
15 14 (3.18%) SOC Analyst
16 13 (2.95%) Cybersecurity Architect
17 12 (2.73%) Cloud Architect
18 11 (2.50%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.36%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (0.91%) JSON
2 4 (0.91%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (0.91%) YAML
3 3 (0.68%) CSS
3 3 (0.68%) HTML
4 2 (0.45%) Kafka
4 2 (0.45%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.45%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.45%) SAML
4 2 (0.45%) XML
5 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.23%) EDI
5 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.23%) OLE
5 1 (0.23%) React
5 1 (0.23%) REST
5 1 (0.23%) RESTful
5 1 (0.23%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 69 (15.68%) Cyber Threat
2 66 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 54 (12.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 52 (11.82%) Cyber Defence
5 32 (7.27%) Security Posture
6 27 (6.14%) Mobile App
6 27 (6.14%) Operational Technology
7 23 (5.23%) Security Operations Centre
8 22 (5.00%) IoT
9 13 (2.95%) Cloud Native
10 11 (2.50%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.05%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.82%) CESG
13 7 (1.59%) SCADA
14 5 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (0.91%) Cyber Security Posture
15 4 (0.91%) Cyberattack
15 4 (0.91%) Product Ownership
15 4 (0.91%) Virtual Team
16 3 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 46 (10.45%) Linux
2 35 (7.95%) Windows
3 11 (2.50%) Unix
4 10 (2.27%) Mac OS X
4 10 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.91%) CentOS
7 2 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.45%) zOS
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (63.86%) Cybersecurity
2 177 (40.23%) Information Security
3 135 (30.68%) SIEM
4 106 (24.09%) Risk Management
5 97 (22.05%) Security Architecture
6 87 (19.77%) Incident Response
7 80 (18.18%) Use Case
8 74 (16.82%) Cloud Security
9 69 (15.68%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 61 (13.86%) Incident Management
11 54 (12.27%) Mentoring
12 50 (11.36%) Roadmaps
12 50 (11.36%) Threat Intelligence
13 48 (10.91%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 48 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
14 46 (10.45%) SOAR
15 45 (10.23%) Protective Monitoring
15 45 (10.23%) Vulnerability Management
16 44 (10.00%) Security Operations
17 43 (9.77%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.23%) Python
2 17 (3.86%) C#
3 12 (2.73%) PowerShell
4 9 (2.05%) Go
4 9 (2.05%) Java
4 9 (2.05%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.59%) C++
6 4 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (0.91%) PHP
6 4 (0.91%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (0.68%) SQL
8 2 (0.45%) Bash
8 2 (0.45%) R
9 1 (0.23%) C
9 1 (0.23%) Ruby
9 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 148 (33.64%) Security Cleared
2 109 (24.77%) CISSP
3 86 (19.55%) CISM
4 78 (17.73%) DV Cleared
5 75 (17.05%) SC Cleared
6 48 (10.91%) CISA
7 39 (8.86%) Degree
8 32 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (6.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 23 (5.23%) CEH
11 22 (5.00%) CREST Certified
11 22 (5.00%) CRISC
11 22 (5.00%) GIAC
12 16 (3.64%) CCSK
12 16 (3.64%) ISACA
13 15 (3.41%) CISMP
14 13 (2.95%) OSCP
15 12 (2.73%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
16 10 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (42.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (18.64%) NIST 800
3 62 (14.09%) GDPR
4 46 (10.45%) NCSC
4 46 (10.45%) PCI DSS
5 41 (9.32%) GRC
6 32 (7.27%) COBIT
7 31 (7.05%) HIPAA
8 19 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 17 (3.86%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 10 (2.27%) JSP 440
11 8 (1.82%) ISO 22301
11 8 (1.82%) ISO 31000
12 7 (1.59%) RMADS
13 6 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (1.36%) QA
14 5 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.91%) ISA99
15 4 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (4.09%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.50%) Docker
3 8 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.59%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) Snort
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (7.27%) Terraform
2 16 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.73%) Ansible
4 7 (1.59%) SCCM
4 7 (1.59%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.14%) Nessus
6 4 (0.91%) Kibana
6 4 (0.91%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (0.68%) logstash
7 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.45%) CASB
8 2 (0.45%) Grafana
8 2 (0.45%) Packer
8 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.23%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 104 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.18%) Rapid7
2 14 (3.18%) Splunk
2 14 (3.18%) VMware
3 11 (2.50%) Google
3 11 (2.50%) LogRhythm
4 8 (1.82%) SAP
5 7 (1.59%) Qualys
5 7 (1.59%) Veeam
6 6 (1.36%) Darktrace
7 5 (1.14%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.14%) Cisco
7 5 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.14%) Sophos
8 4 (0.91%) CyberArk
9 3 (0.68%) Cadence
9 3 (0.68%) Databricks
9 3 (0.68%) Okta
9 3 (0.68%) Oracle
10 2 (0.45%) Teradata