NIST Contracts in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 232 356
Rank change year-on-year +22 +124 -3
Contract jobs citing NIST 197 283 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.11% 1.13% 0.67%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.09% 8.39% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 207 181
10th Percentile £375 £475 £450
25th Percentile £516 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £688 £638
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +7.84% -
75th Percentile £775 £800 £738
90th Percentile £825 £850 £819
England median daily rate £625 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £68.42 £72.42
% change year-on-year -1.34% -5.53% +42.28%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

NIST falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,435 3,374 4,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.77% 13.42% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,709 2,468 3,429
10th Percentile £350 £355 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 39 85
10th Percentile £13.29 £19.39 £20.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.24 £24.71
Median hourly rate £24.18 £26.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -41.57% +121.89%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.88 £49.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £80.50 £68.25
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in London

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in London

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in London

NIST
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +28 41 £625 -3.85% 35
East London -14 4 £629 -16.20% 3
West London -4 1 £325 -60.61% 4
South London - 1 - -
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.02%) IIS
2 2 (1.02%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.51%) Confluence
3 1 (0.51%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.51%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 44 (22.34%) Azure
2 36 (18.27%) AWS
3 22 (11.17%) SaaS
4 20 (10.15%) IaaS
5 16 (8.12%) PaaS
6 15 (7.61%) GCP
7 14 (7.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (6.60%) Serverless
9 8 (4.06%) Entra ID
9 8 (4.06%) GitHub
10 7 (3.55%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
14 1 (0.51%) AWS KMS
14 1 (0.51%) Azure AI
14 1 (0.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 1 (0.51%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.68%) Firewall
2 19 (9.64%) Network Security
3 6 (3.05%) DNS
4 5 (2.54%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.52%) VPN
6 2 (1.02%) SNMP
6 2 (1.02%) Wireless
7 1 (0.51%) DHCP
7 1 (0.51%) HTTP
7 1 (0.51%) Internet
7 1 (0.51%) Modbus
7 1 (0.51%) SMTP
7 1 (0.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (1.02%) Big Data
2 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.51%) CouchDB
2 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.51%) MySQL
2 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.51%) Redis
2 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.51%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.54%) JIRA
3 3 (1.52%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.02%) Git
4 2 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.02%) RStudio
5 1 (0.51%) Darcs
5 1 (0.51%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.51%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.51%) Travis CI
General
1 53 (26.90%) Finance
2 38 (19.29%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.61%) Banking
5 9 (4.57%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.05%) Retail
7 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.02%) International Banking
7 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.02%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.51%) Advertising
8 1 (0.51%) Games
8 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.51%) Legal
8 1 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 71 (36.04%) Architect
2 50 (25.38%) Security Architect
3 30 (15.23%) Consultant
4 24 (12.18%) Security Consultant
5 22 (11.17%) Analyst
6 18 (9.14%) Senior
6 18 (9.14%) Technical Architect
7 16 (8.12%) Security Manager
8 15 (7.61%) Security Engineer
9 14 (7.11%) Lead
10 12 (6.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 12 (6.09%) Senior Architect
10 12 (6.09%) Senior Security Architect
11 11 (5.58%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (5.58%) Project Manager
12 9 (4.57%) Cloud Security Architect
12 9 (4.57%) Security Analyst
13 8 (4.06%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 8 (4.06%) Security Project Manager
14 7 (3.55%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.52%) CSS
1 3 (1.52%) HTML
2 2 (1.02%) EDI
2 2 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (1.02%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.02%) XML
3 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.51%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.51%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.51%) React
3 1 (0.51%) REST
3 1 (0.51%) RESTful
3 1 (0.51%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.14%) Security Posture
2 17 (8.63%) IoT
2 17 (8.63%) Mobile App
3 15 (7.61%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (4.57%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.57%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.06%) Operational Technology
6 7 (3.55%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.52%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.52%) PKI
8 3 (1.52%) SCADA
8 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.02%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.08%) Windows
2 9 (4.57%) Linux
3 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.02%) Unix
4 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (53.81%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (29.44%) Information Security
3 51 (25.89%) Security Architecture
4 47 (23.86%) Cloud Security
5 39 (19.80%) Risk Management
6 36 (18.27%) SIEM
7 29 (14.72%) DevSecOps
8 27 (13.71%) Roadmaps
8 27 (13.71%) Use Case
9 24 (12.18%) Data Protection
10 23 (11.68%) Architectural Patterns
11 21 (10.66%) Incident Response
11 21 (10.66%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (10.66%) Risk Assessment
12 20 (10.15%) Identity Access Management
12 20 (10.15%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (9.64%) Application Security
13 19 (9.64%) DevOps
13 19 (9.64%) Validation
14 18 (9.14%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.09%) Python
2 11 (5.58%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.03%) C#
3 4 (2.03%) SQL
4 3 (1.52%) Go
4 3 (1.52%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.02%) Bash
5 2 (1.02%) Bicep
5 2 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.02%) R
5 2 (1.02%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (0.51%) C
6 1 (0.51%) C++
6 1 (0.51%) Java
6 1 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 56 (28.43%) CISSP
2 44 (22.34%) CISM
3 24 (12.18%) Security Cleared
4 21 (10.66%) SC Cleared
5 20 (10.15%) CISA
6 12 (6.09%) CREST Certified
7 11 (5.58%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.58%) Degree
7 11 (5.58%) GIAC
8 10 (5.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (4.57%) CRISC
9 9 (4.57%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (3.55%) CCSK
10 7 (3.55%) CEH
11 6 (3.05%) DV Cleared
11 6 (3.05%) SANS
12 5 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.54%) FFIEC
12 5 (2.54%) Master's Degree
13 4 (2.03%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (41.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (12.18%) GDPR
2 24 (12.18%) PCI DSS
3 17 (8.63%) GRC
3 17 (8.63%) NIST 800
4 16 (8.12%) NCSC
5 7 (3.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (2.03%) COBIT
7 4 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (2.03%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.52%) GPG13
8 3 (1.52%) ISA99
8 3 (1.52%) ISO 22301
8 3 (1.52%) ISO 31000
9 2 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.02%) ISAE 3402
9 2 (1.02%) QA
9 2 (1.02%) SLA
10 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.55%) Docker
3 2 (1.02%) Snort
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (12.18%) Terraform
2 8 (4.06%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.54%) logstash
3 5 (2.54%) Nessus
4 4 (2.03%) Ansible
4 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.52%) Kibana
6 2 (1.02%) CASB
6 2 (1.02%) Grafana
6 2 (1.02%) Packer
6 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.51%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.51%) Puppet
7 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.06%) LogRhythm
2 8 (4.06%) Rapid7
3 6 (3.05%) Splunk
4 5 (2.54%) Google
4 5 (2.54%) Okta
4 5 (2.54%) Qualys
5 4 (2.03%) Cisco
6 3 (1.52%) CyberArk
6 3 (1.52%) IBM
6 3 (1.52%) Oracle
7 2 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.02%) Cybereason
7 2 (1.02%) Darktrace
7 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.02%) Varonis
7 2 (1.02%) VMware
8 1 (0.51%) ForeScout
8 1 (0.51%) Netskope