NIST Contracts in the West Midlands

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 84 161
Rank change year-on-year +6 +77 -46
Contract jobs citing NIST 31 56 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.61% 2.35% 0.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.47% 13.90% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 48 11
10th Percentile £406 £430 £550
25th Percentile £434 £547 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £725
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -15.52% +7.41%
75th Percentile £681 £680 £800
90th Percentile £740 £700 £813
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £68.58
% change year-on-year +5.23% -6.47% +34.73%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 296 403 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.38% 16.93% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 260 339
10th Percentile £260 £262 £250
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £459
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +7.84% +8.00%
75th Percentile £625 £595 £575
90th Percentile £784 £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 £22.04 £40.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -45.25% +46.36% +30.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the West Midlands

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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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Birmingham +16 13 £438 -22.22% 3
Herefordshire -8 7 £538 -17.23%
Worcestershire +8 5 £550 -15.38%
Staffordshire +6 2 £800 - 2
Warwickshire -15 2 £575 -15.44% 5
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England

NIST
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.23%) AWS
1 1 (3.23%) Azure
1 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (3.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (41.94%) Firewall
2 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
3 5 (16.13%) DHCP
3 5 (16.13%) DNS
4 2 (6.45%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (3.23%) tcpdump
5 1 (3.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
1 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Legal
3 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.23%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Finance
6 1 (3.23%) Law
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (64.52%) Analyst
2 10 (32.26%) SOC Analyst
3 8 (25.81%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Incident Manager
5 1 (3.23%) IT Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Junior
5 1 (3.23%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Security Incident Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Senior
5 1 (3.23%) SOC Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Kafka
1 1 (3.23%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 8 (25.81%) Cyber Defence
3 7 (22.58%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (22.58%) Management Information System
4 3 (9.68%) Operational Technology
5 2 (6.45%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.23%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 17 (54.84%) Linux
2 10 (32.26%) Mac OS X
3 7 (22.58%) Windows
4 5 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (16.13%) Unix
4 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (93.55%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (87.10%) SIEM
3 18 (58.06%) Incident Management
4 16 (51.61%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 12 (38.71%) Incident Response
5 12 (38.71%) Vulnerability Management
6 11 (35.48%) Malware Reverse Engineering
6 11 (35.48%) Reverse Engineering
7 10 (32.26%) Computer Forensics
7 10 (32.26%) Purple Team
7 10 (32.26%) Risk Management
7 10 (32.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (32.26%) Threat Analysis
8 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
8 8 (25.81%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (25.81%) Use Case
9 7 (22.58%) Case Management
9 7 (22.58%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 7 (22.58%) Protective Monitoring
9 7 (22.58%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) C#
1 5 (16.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (67.74%) Security Cleared
2 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (41.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (35.48%) GDPR
3 10 (32.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (32.26%) HIPAA
4 8 (25.81%) NIST 800
5 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (16.13%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.23%) Snort
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) SCCM
1 5 (16.13%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) Veeam
2 5 (16.13%) VMware
3 2 (6.45%) Rapid7
3 2 (6.45%) SAP
3 2 (6.45%) Sophos
3 2 (6.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) Cadence
4 1 (3.23%) F5
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Qualys