NIST Contracts in Manchester

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 89 92 114
Rank change year-on-year +3 +22 -25
Contract jobs citing NIST 12 24 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.78% 1.27% 1.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.92% 8.42% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 26
10th Percentile £482 £404 £544
25th Percentile £590 £422 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £594 £725
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -18.10% +52.63%
75th Percentile £753 £716 £763
90th Percentile £766 £1,395 -
North West median daily rate £650 £550 £725
% change year-on-year +18.18% -24.14% +34.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £39.60 -
North West median hourly rate £35.95 £39.60 -
% change year-on-year -9.22% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 244 285 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.92% 15.06% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 191 253
10th Percentile £364 £320 £237
25th Percentile £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £630
90th Percentile £713 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £513 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +7.89% +2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 15
10th Percentile £12.84 £11.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.19 £13.50 £11.56
Median hourly rate £37.13 £22.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.03% +80.00% +3.50%
75th Percentile £68.78 £39.60 £13.34
90th Percentile £72.14 £63.84 £18.90
North West median hourly rate £12.84 £38.55 £18.00
% change year-on-year -66.69% +114.17% +16.13%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Compliance Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) SAML
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (8.33%) Cyberattack
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (50.00%) Information Security
2 6 (50.00%) SIEM
3 5 (41.67%) OWASP
4 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Security Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Threat Detection
5 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 2 (16.67%) Records Management
6 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
1 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (75.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (25.00%) GRC
3 2 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (8.33%) GDPR
4 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Rapid7
2 3 (25.00%) Sophos
3 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (8.33%) Darktrace
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) Qualys
4 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) VMware