NIST 800 Contracts

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for NIST 800 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NIST 800 over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 592 763
Rank change year-on-year +103 +171 -106
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 98 103 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.18% 0.089%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.63% 1.36% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 65 53
10th Percentile £501 £507 £527
25th Percentile £535 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £650 £750
Median % change year-on-year -10.46% -13.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £800
90th Percentile £850 £750 £868
UK excluding London median daily rate £583 £613 £700
% change year-on-year -4.90% -12.50% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

NIST 800 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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,019 7,573 11,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.03% 13.49% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,815 5,158 7,971
10th Percentile £281 £290 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 241 313
10th Percentile £10.96 £13.29 £12.04
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.69 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.04% +16.67% +42.86%
75th Percentile £47.81 £63.23 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.87 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -47.80% +55.56% +7.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NIST 800 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NIST 800 in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST 800.

Daily rate trend for NIST 800 in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST 800 over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST 800 in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NIST 800.

Hourly rate trend for NIST 800 in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST 800 within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England +106 95 £583 -10.31% 22
UK excluding London +81 69 £583 -4.90% 16
South West +56 51 £591 +12.57% 10
South East +24 26 £653 +10.52% 2
London +60 18 £700 - 6
North of England +35 18 £582 +1.22% 1
Yorkshire +26 18 £582 +1.22% 1
Work from Home +89 16 £550 -19.12% 7
Midlands +11 7 £538 -20.88% 1
West Midlands +6 7 £538 -20.88% 1
East of England +8 2 £400 -20.79% 2

NIST 800
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.10%) AWS
1 5 (5.10%) Azure
2 3 (3.06%) GCP
3 2 (2.04%) IaaS
3 2 (2.04%) SaaS
4 1 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.24%) Network Security
2 3 (3.06%) Firewall
3 1 (1.02%) Modbus
3 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
General
1 65 (66.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.24%) Finance
4 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.20%) Telecoms
5 9 (9.18%) Military
6 4 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (26.53%) Analyst
2 17 (17.35%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 15 (15.31%) Lead
4 12 (12.24%) Consultant
5 9 (9.18%) Project Manager
6 8 (8.16%) SOC Manager
7 7 (7.14%) Architect
7 7 (7.14%) Security Architect
7 7 (7.14%) Security Consultant
8 6 (6.12%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 4 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) DV Cleared Project Manager
10 4 (4.08%) Risk Consultant
11 3 (3.06%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 3 (3.06%) Incident Analyst
11 3 (3.06%) Information Security Consultant
11 3 (3.06%) Security Analyst
11 3 (3.06%) Senior Architect
11 3 (3.06%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.02%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 60 (61.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 60 (61.22%) Cyber Threat
2 59 (60.20%) Cyber Defence
3 45 (45.92%) Management Information System
4 14 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (8.16%) Operational Technology
6 6 (6.12%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.06%) Industry 4.0
7 3 (3.06%) IoT
7 3 (3.06%) SCADA
8 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.02%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (1.02%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (1.02%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (77.55%) Cybersecurity
2 68 (69.39%) Information Security
2 68 (69.39%) SIEM
3 58 (59.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 52 (53.06%) Incident Response
4 52 (53.06%) Protective Monitoring
5 50 (51.02%) Incident Management
5 50 (51.02%) Use Case
6 49 (50.00%) Case Management
6 49 (50.00%) SOAR
7 48 (48.98%) Mentoring
7 48 (48.98%) Threat Intelligence
8 47 (47.96%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 46 (46.94%) CRM
9 46 (46.94%) Root Cause Analysis
10 21 (21.43%) Security Architecture
11 17 (17.35%) Security Operations
12 15 (15.31%) Risk Management
13 11 (11.22%) Agile
14 10 (10.20%) SABSA
Qualifications
1 66 (67.35%) Security Cleared
2 62 (63.27%) DV Cleared
3 23 (23.47%) CISM
3 23 (23.47%) CISSP
4 12 (12.24%) Degree
5 11 (11.22%) CISA
6 9 (9.18%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (9.18%) CRISC
7 8 (8.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (6.12%) CCSK
9 5 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (5.10%) Master's Degree
10 4 (4.08%) GIAC
10 4 (4.08%) SANS
11 3 (3.06%) CCSP
11 3 (3.06%) CEH
12 2 (2.04%) FFIEC
13 1 (1.02%) CCNA
13 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
13 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (96.94%) NIST
2 6 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.10%) ISO 31000
3 5 (5.10%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.08%) GDPR
4 4 (4.08%) ISA99
5 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (2.04%) NCSC
6 1 (1.02%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.02%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.02%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (8.16%) Kibana
1 8 (8.16%) logstash
2 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (70.41%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.16%) Tanium
3 3 (3.06%) Google
3 3 (3.06%) LogRhythm
4 2 (2.04%) Cadence
5 1 (1.02%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.02%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.02%) ForeScout
5 1 (1.02%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow