NIST Jobs in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for NIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 299 317 443
Rank change year-on-year +18 +126 -4
Permanent jobs citing NIST 783 980 1,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.92% 1.06% 0.81%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.62% 5.38% 4.96%
Number of salaries quoted 654 686 682
10th Percentile £42,650 £45,625 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,750 £52,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £84,919 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £66,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.70% +3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

NIST is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,830 18,201 21,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.94% 19.65% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8,356 8,322 11,799
10th Percentile £27,025 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in England

NIST
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NIST in England.

Salary trend for NIST in England

NIST
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in England

NIST
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +29 274 £75,000 - 92
South East -8 156 £50,500 -22.31% 30
North of England +82 152 £57,500 -4.17% 16
South West +16 108 £62,500 -3.85% 18
North West +55 96 £60,000 +4.35% 11
Midlands -65 59 £66,500 +6.40% 21
West Midlands -45 49 £70,000 +12.00% 18
Yorkshire +81 32 £55,000 -18.52% 2
North East +16 24 £42,500 -14.36% 3
East of England +12 17 £72,500 +3.57% 12
East Midlands -6 9 £47,500 -15.93% 2
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (1.92%) IIS
2 1 (0.13%) Apache
2 1 (0.13%) Confluence
2 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 185 (23.63%) Azure
2 148 (18.90%) AWS
3 74 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (3.83%) Azure Sentinel
5 29 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 29 (3.70%) GCP
6 23 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
7 22 (2.81%) SaaS
8 21 (2.68%) IaaS
8 21 (2.68%) PaaS
9 16 (2.04%) Entra ID
10 14 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (1.40%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.40%) Serverless
12 8 (1.02%) Power Platform
13 7 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 151 (19.28%) Firewall
2 147 (18.77%) Network Security
3 54 (6.90%) WAN
4 38 (4.85%) Intrusion Detection
5 36 (4.60%) SD-WAN
6 28 (3.58%) TCP/IP
7 21 (2.68%) VPN
8 18 (2.30%) LAN
8 18 (2.30%) Wireshark
9 14 (1.79%) DNS
10 11 (1.40%) Internet
11 10 (1.28%) Wireless
12 7 (0.89%) DMZ
13 6 (0.77%) VoIP
14 4 (0.51%) 5G
14 4 (0.51%) tcpdump
14 4 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
15 3 (0.38%) HTTP
15 3 (0.38%) Modbus
15 3 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.02%) Power BI
2 7 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.64%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.13%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.13%) Redis
5 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (1.92%) GitLab
2 11 (1.40%) JIRA
3 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.26%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.26%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.26%) sqlmap
5 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.13%) Git
5 1 (0.13%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 193 (24.65%) Finance
2 179 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 103 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (6.64%) Legal
5 48 (6.13%) Military
6 42 (5.36%) Retail
7 36 (4.60%) Law
8 32 (4.09%) Public Sector
9 27 (3.45%) Aerospace
10 21 (2.68%) Telecoms
11 19 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.92%) Marketing
13 11 (1.40%) Aviation
13 11 (1.40%) Banking
14 9 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.02%) Automotive
16 5 (0.64%) Advertising
16 5 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 159 (20.31%) Analyst
2 133 (16.99%) Consultant
3 127 (16.22%) Security Consultant
4 125 (15.96%) Security Analyst
5 112 (14.30%) Senior
6 98 (12.52%) Security Specialist
7 91 (11.62%) Architect
8 87 (11.11%) Lead
9 83 (10.60%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 76 (9.71%) Security Architect
11 73 (9.32%) Security Manager
12 67 (8.56%) Security Engineer
13 66 (8.43%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 56 (7.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 50 (6.39%) Information Analyst
15 50 (6.39%) Information Security Analyst
16 34 (4.34%) Information Manager
17 33 (4.21%) Lead Architect
18 32 (4.09%) Information Security Manager
19 30 (3.83%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (1.53%) Web Services
3 6 (0.77%) Middleware
4 5 (0.64%) OAuth
4 5 (0.64%) REST
4 5 (0.64%) SAML
5 4 (0.51%) Kafka
5 4 (0.51%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.38%) AWS SAM
6 3 (0.38%) SOAP
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.26%) Sass
8 1 (0.13%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.13%) CSS
8 1 (0.13%) FIDO
8 1 (0.13%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.13%) LDAP
8 1 (0.13%) NestJS
8 1 (0.13%) OpenID
8 1 (0.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 158 (20.18%) Management Information System
2 87 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 85 (10.86%) Security Operations Centre
4 75 (9.58%) Cyber Threat
5 54 (6.90%) Cyber Defence
6 52 (6.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 51 (6.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 30 (3.83%) Operational Technology
9 24 (3.07%) Cyberattack
10 21 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (2.43%) Data Centre
11 19 (2.43%) Onboarding
12 18 (2.30%) Product Ownership
13 17 (2.17%) Cloud Native
14 16 (2.04%) CESG
15 15 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
16 14 (1.79%) Public Cloud
17 12 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
17 12 (1.53%) Private Cloud
18 10 (1.28%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 60 (7.66%) Windows
2 36 (4.60%) Linux
3 16 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.79%) Android
4 14 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 8 (1.02%) Unix
7 7 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.77%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.64%) CentOS
9 5 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.51%) Solaris
10 4 (0.51%) zOS
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (71.52%) Cybersecurity
2 458 (58.49%) Information Security
3 197 (25.16%) Risk Management
4 188 (24.01%) SIEM
5 172 (21.97%) Security Operations
6 168 (21.46%) Security Architecture
7 136 (17.37%) Vulnerability Management
8 128 (16.35%) Cloud Security
9 127 (16.22%) Incident Response
10 115 (14.69%) Security Management
11 104 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
12 89 (11.37%) Application Security
13 82 (10.47%) OWASP
14 78 (9.96%) Information Security Management
15 77 (9.83%) Agile
16 74 (9.45%) Computer Science
17 70 (8.94%) Mentoring
18 64 (8.17%) Coaching
18 64 (8.17%) Incident Management
18 64 (8.17%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 42 (5.36%) Python
2 26 (3.32%) PowerShell
3 8 (1.02%) Bash
3 8 (1.02%) SQL
4 5 (0.64%) C
4 5 (0.64%) Java
4 5 (0.64%) R
4 5 (0.64%) Scala
5 3 (0.38%) C++
6 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 283 (36.14%) CISSP
2 183 (23.37%) CISM
3 129 (16.48%) Security Cleared
4 128 (16.35%) Degree
5 105 (13.41%) Cisco Certification
6 102 (13.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 93 (11.88%) CCSP
8 88 (11.24%) CISA
9 63 (8.05%) AWS Certification
10 57 (7.28%) CCSK
11 56 (7.15%) Azure Certification
12 53 (6.77%) DV Cleared
12 53 (6.77%) SC Cleared
13 51 (6.51%) CRISC
14 37 (4.73%) CEH
14 37 (4.73%) CompTIA Security+
15 33 (4.21%) CompTIA CySA+
15 33 (4.21%) PCI QSA
16 30 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
17 26 (3.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 389 (49.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 170 (21.71%) GRC
3 136 (17.37%) PCI DSS
4 119 (15.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 119 (15.20%) GDPR
5 76 (9.71%) NIST 800
6 72 (9.20%) NCSC
7 70 (8.94%) Def Stans
8 42 (5.36%) COBIT
9 32 (4.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 31 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 31 (3.96%) SOC 2
11 30 (3.83%) JSP 440
12 29 (3.70%) RMADS
13 21 (2.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (1.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 10 (1.28%) ISO 31000
16 9 (1.15%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 7 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 38 (4.85%) Docker
2 30 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.07%) vSphere
4 14 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.38%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) Snort
Systems Management
1 48 (6.13%) Single Sign-On
2 39 (4.98%) Kubernetes
3 20 (2.55%) Terraform
4 18 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.79%) CASB
5 14 (1.79%) Nmap
6 8 (1.02%) Nessus
7 6 (0.77%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.51%) QRadar
9 3 (0.38%) Ansible
9 3 (0.38%) SELinux
9 3 (0.38%) Suricata
10 2 (0.26%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.26%) Packer
11 1 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 146 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.47%) Splunk
3 32 (4.09%) Qualys
4 26 (3.32%) Tanium
4 26 (3.32%) Tripwire
5 24 (3.07%) SolarWinds
6 15 (1.92%) Cisco
6 15 (1.92%) Rapid7
7 14 (1.79%) Google
7 14 (1.79%) Thycotic
8 9 (1.15%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.89%) CA
9 7 (0.89%) VMware
10 5 (0.64%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.64%) IBM
10 5 (0.64%) Intel
10 5 (0.64%) Juniper
11 4 (0.51%) Citrix
11 4 (0.51%) Dell
12 3 (0.38%) Oracle