NIST Contract Job Trends in Abingdon

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Oxfordshire > Abingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Abingdon requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Abingdon 16.67% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - -
75th Percentile £423 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £428 £625 -
% change year-on-year -31.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £20.32 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £25.45 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Abingdon

NIST falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Abingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Abingdon 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - -
75th Percentile £423 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £474 £393 £450
% change year-on-year +20.70% -12.78% +1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £20.32 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £25.45 £46.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -45.03% -28.77% +165.31%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Abingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Abingdon.

NIST job vacancy trend in Abingdon

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Abingdon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft