NIST Contract Job Trends in Bath

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Somerset > Bath

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bath requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bath 1.27% - 3.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.00% - 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £700
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £688 - £700

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bath

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 Bath.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 25 8 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 31.65% 14.04% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 13
10th Percentile £400 £350 £396
25th Percentile £482 £431 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +6.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile £603 £663 £588
90th Percentile £676 £775 £678
Somerset median daily rate £516 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -14.08% +20.00% +19.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £12.00
Somerset median hourly rate £14.00 - £12.62
% change year-on-year - - -74.76%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

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

NIST job vacancy trend in Bath

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing NIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing NIST

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath 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 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk