NIST Contracts in Scotland

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 111 145 155
Rank change year-on-year +34 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing NIST 20 20 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.91% 0.70% 0.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.81% 3.52% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 11
10th Percentile £298 £542 £472
25th Percentile £534 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £631 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +5.21% +14.29%
75th Percentile £702 £700 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £650
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 416 568 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.85% 19.87% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 479 506
10th Percentile £193 £213 £213
25th Percentile £340 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +2.41%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £625 £639 £600
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 13
10th Percentile £15.32 £26.25 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.18 £34.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £18.27 £47.73 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.72% +44.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £51.28 £50.74 £43.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £52.55 £52.60
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Scotland

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in Scotland

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Scotland

NIST
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -6 11 £550 -12.00% 6
South Lanarkshire - 6 £575 -
Edinburgh +39 2 £693 -0.68%
Aberdeen - 1 - -
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (15.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 10 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Security Advisor
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Security Technical Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Change Portfolio Manager
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Portfolio Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Portfolio Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Risk Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Risk Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Technology Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (65.00%) Risk Management
3 8 (40.00%) Security Architecture
4 7 (35.00%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (30.00%) Cyber Intelligence
5 6 (30.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 6 (30.00%) Information Security
5 6 (30.00%) Security Management
5 6 (30.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 5 (25.00%) Information Security Management
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 4 (20.00%) ISMS
7 4 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
7 4 (20.00%) Social Engineering
8 3 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (15.00%) Business Case
8 3 (15.00%) Cyber Assurance
8 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (15.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) Perl
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) CISA
3 5 (25.00%) CISM
3 5 (25.00%) CISSP
3 5 (25.00%) CRISC
4 4 (20.00%) CGEIT
4 4 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.00%) Degree
6 1 (5.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (90.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (10.00%) NCSC
3 2 (10.00%) PMO
4 1 (5.00%) COBIT
4 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (5.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) OneTrust