NIST 800 Contracts in the West Midlands

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 123 -
Rank change year-on-year +21 - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 9 16 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.46% 0.67% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.99% 3.99% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 0
10th Percentile £529 £625 -
25th Percentile £538 £653 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £680 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.32% - -
75th Percentile £666 - -
90th Percentile £693 £700 -
England median daily rate £582 £650 £755
% change year-on-year -10.46% -13.91% +11.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 301 401 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.46% 16.82% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 259 341
10th Percentile £260 £263 £250
25th Percentile £375 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £459
Median % change year-on-year - +8.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £625 £595 £575
90th Percentile £793 £675 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 7
10th Percentile £11.91 £10.99 £10.65
25th Percentile £13.18 £12.50 £11.63
Median hourly rate £14.00 £16.10 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -5.29% -5.56%
75th Percentile £45.78 £23.02 £18.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £27.92 £20.00
England median hourly rate £22.34 £41.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -46.17% +50.91% +30.95%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing NIST 800 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NIST 800 in the West Midlands

NIST 800
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for NIST 800 in the West Midlands

NIST 800
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Herefordshire -7 7 £538 -17.23%
NIST 800
England

NIST 800
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Analyst
1 9 (100.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 9 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 7 (77.78%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (77.78%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) SIEM
2 7 (77.78%) Case Management
2 7 (77.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (77.78%) Incident Management
2 7 (77.78%) Incident Response
2 7 (77.78%) Information Security
2 7 (77.78%) Protective Monitoring
2 7 (77.78%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (77.78%) SOAR
2 7 (77.78%) Threat Intelligence
2 7 (77.78%) Use Case
3 6 (66.67%) CRM
3 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 6 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) NIST
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft