NIST Jobs in the UK excluding London

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 341 349
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 +62
Permanent jobs citing NIST 550 539 684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.89% 0.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.73% 4.35% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 443 358 393
10th Percentile £38,800 £45,000 £39,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £66,750 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.64% +3.70% +3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,600 12,400 12,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.53% 20.58% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,348 4,621 6,917
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,665
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.90% +0.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -2 159 £50,500 -20.78% 21
North of England +81 151 £57,500 -4.17% 16
South West +19 110 £61,250 -5.59% 20
North West +42 94 £60,000 +20.60% 9
Midlands -55 66 £65,750 +1.94% 18
West Midlands -45 54 £67,500 +3.85% 14
Scotland -43 42 £60,000 +8.67% 6
Yorkshire +69 33 £55,000 -18.52% 4
North East +18 24 £42,500 -14.36% 3
East of England +8 17 £72,500 +3.57% 10
East Midlands -8 9 £47,500 -15.93% 4
Isle of Man -17 4 £46,500 -17.33% 2
Wales +8 1 £85,000 +54.55% 4
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (2.36%) IIS
2 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.18%) Apache
3 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 138 (25.09%) Azure
2 102 (18.55%) AWS
3 71 (12.91%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
4 20 (3.64%) SaaS
5 19 (3.45%) IaaS
5 19 (3.45%) PaaS
6 18 (3.27%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (2.00%) GCP
9 9 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (1.64%) Serverless
10 6 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 5 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (0.91%) AWS CloudTrail
11 5 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 109 (19.82%) Network Security
2 81 (14.73%) Firewall
3 45 (8.18%) WAN
4 30 (5.45%) SD-WAN
5 25 (4.55%) VPN
6 23 (4.18%) Intrusion Detection
7 12 (2.18%) TCP/IP
8 11 (2.00%) LAN
9 10 (1.82%) Wireshark
10 9 (1.64%) Internet
11 7 (1.27%) DMZ
12 4 (0.73%) tcpdump
12 4 (0.73%) Wireless
13 3 (0.55%) HTTP
13 3 (0.55%) Modbus
13 3 (0.55%) PPP
13 3 (0.55%) VLAN
14 2 (0.36%) DNS
14 2 (0.36%) SAN
14 2 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.73%) Power BI
3 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (2.18%) GitLab
2 10 (1.82%) JIRA
3 2 (0.36%) Burp Suite
3 2 (0.36%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.36%) sqlmap
4 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.18%) Git
4 1 (0.18%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
General
1 115 (20.91%) Finance
2 108 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 68 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.27%) Retail
5 30 (5.45%) Legal
6 29 (5.27%) Law
6 29 (5.27%) Military
7 24 (4.36%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.64%) Aerospace
8 20 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (3.45%) Marketing
10 11 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.82%) Aviation
12 8 (1.45%) Automotive
12 8 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.73%) Banking
14 3 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.36%) Fire and Rescue
15 2 (0.36%) Local Government
15 2 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (17.64%) Consultant
2 95 (17.27%) Security Consultant
3 90 (16.36%) Security Specialist
4 89 (16.18%) Analyst
5 79 (14.36%) Lead
6 78 (14.18%) Architect
7 74 (13.45%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 70 (12.73%) Senior
9 65 (11.82%) Security Analyst
10 62 (11.27%) Security Architect
11 54 (9.82%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 53 (9.64%) Security Manager
13 46 (8.36%) Security Engineer
14 36 (6.55%) Lead Architect
15 32 (5.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 23 (4.18%) Information Manager
16 23 (4.18%) Information Security Manager
16 23 (4.18%) Lead Security Architect
16 23 (4.18%) Senior Architect
17 21 (3.82%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.55%) Web Services
2 9 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (1.45%) OAuth
3 8 (1.45%) SAML
4 6 (1.09%) Middleware
5 3 (0.55%) REST
5 3 (0.55%) SOAP
6 2 (0.36%) OpenID
6 2 (0.36%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.18%) CSS
7 1 (0.18%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.18%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 132 (24.00%) Management Information System
2 54 (9.82%) Security Operations Centre
3 46 (8.36%) Security Posture
4 42 (7.64%) Cyber Threat
5 39 (7.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 34 (6.18%) Operational Technology
7 30 (5.45%) Cyber Defence
8 21 (3.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 21 (3.82%) Data Centre
9 18 (3.27%) Cyberattack
10 17 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (3.09%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.91%) CESG
11 16 (2.91%) Product Ownership
12 14 (2.55%) Onboarding
13 12 (2.18%) Private Cloud
13 12 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.82%) SCADA
15 8 (1.45%) Cloud Native
16 7 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.18%) Windows
2 18 (3.27%) Linux
2 18 (3.27%) Windows Server
3 11 (2.00%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.45%) Kali Linux
5 6 (1.09%) Android
5 6 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.73%) Unix
7 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (74.91%) Cybersecurity
2 296 (53.82%) Information Security
3 148 (26.91%) Risk Management
4 117 (21.27%) Security Architecture
5 106 (19.27%) SIEM
6 104 (18.91%) Security Operations
7 99 (18.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 87 (15.82%) Incident Response
9 86 (15.64%) Cloud Security
10 76 (13.82%) Security Management
11 69 (12.55%) OWASP
12 66 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (11.64%) Application Security
14 62 (11.27%) Mentoring
15 57 (10.36%) Coaching
16 53 (9.64%) Information Assurance
17 49 (8.91%) Information Security Management
18 47 (8.55%) Computer Science
19 43 (7.82%) Project Management
20 41 (7.45%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 25 (4.55%) Python
2 21 (3.82%) PowerShell
3 9 (1.64%) SQL
4 6 (1.09%) C
4 6 (1.09%) Java
4 6 (1.09%) R
4 6 (1.09%) Scala
5 2 (0.36%) Bash
6 1 (0.18%) C++
6 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 181 (32.91%) CISSP
2 128 (23.27%) CISM
3 99 (18.00%) Security Cleared
4 94 (17.09%) Degree
5 56 (10.18%) Cisco Certification
6 54 (9.82%) CCSP
7 53 (9.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 49 (8.91%) AWS Certification
8 49 (8.91%) CISA
9 45 (8.18%) CCSK
10 42 (7.64%) Azure Certification
10 42 (7.64%) SC Cleared
11 37 (6.73%) DV Cleared
12 25 (4.55%) CRISC
13 20 (3.64%) CEH
14 17 (3.09%) CISMP
14 17 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
15 16 (2.91%) SANS
16 15 (2.73%) PCI QSA
17 14 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (48.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 109 (19.82%) GRC
3 95 (17.27%) GDPR
4 89 (16.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 85 (15.45%) PCI DSS
6 70 (12.73%) Def Stans
7 68 (12.36%) NIST 800
8 53 (9.64%) NCSC
9 31 (5.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 29 (5.27%) COBIT
10 29 (5.27%) JSP 440
11 26 (4.73%) RMADS
12 24 (4.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 15 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (2.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 10 (1.82%) SOC 2
16 9 (1.64%) ISO 31000
17 7 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 5 (0.91%) HIPAA
18 5 (0.91%) TickIT
System Software
1 30 (5.45%) Docker
2 22 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.64%) vSphere
4 6 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.55%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.18%) Snort
Systems Management
1 40 (7.27%) Single Sign-On
2 36 (6.55%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.55%) Terraform
4 11 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.64%) CASB
6 8 (1.45%) Nessus
7 6 (1.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (1.09%) Nmap
8 5 (0.91%) Suricata
9 3 (0.55%) SELinux
10 2 (0.36%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.18%) Ansible
11 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 92 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.82%) Splunk
3 15 (2.73%) Qualys
4 12 (2.18%) Cisco
5 11 (2.00%) Tanium
6 10 (1.82%) Tripwire
7 9 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 8 (1.45%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.09%) Thycotic
10 5 (0.91%) Intel
10 5 (0.91%) Juniper
10 5 (0.91%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.73%) Citrix
11 4 (0.73%) Dell
11 4 (0.73%) VMware
12 3 (0.55%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.55%) Google
12 3 (0.55%) Oracle
13 2 (0.36%) ForgeRock