NIST 800 Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring NIST 800 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 100 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.14% 0.15% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.76% 0.99% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £479 £615 -
25th Percentile £506 £616 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £634 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% - -
75th Percentile £629 £653 -
90th Percentile £660 £655 -
South East median daily rate £530 £644 £667
% change year-on-year -17.67% -3.49% +2.62%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

NIST 800 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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 262 203 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.87% 15.01% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 71 207
10th Percentile £390 £363 £149
25th Percentile £450 £450 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% +3.83%
75th Percentile £638 £591 £575
90th Percentile £664 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.58% +14.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 15
10th Percentile £18.22 £43.85 £24.29
25th Percentile £18.97 £60.75 £37.76
Median hourly rate £81.00 £61.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.72% -2.39% +186.36%
75th Percentile £81.25 £64.73 £77.94
90th Percentile £85.90 £65.08 £81.78
South East median hourly rate £42.36 £51.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -16.94% -6.52% +129.56%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST 800 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

NIST 800 job vacancy trend in Berkshire

NIST 800
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing NIST 800.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing NIST 800

NIST 800
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST 800 in Berkshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NIST 800 in Berkshire

NIST 800
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST 800 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Reading +9 2 £565 -11.41%
NIST 800
South East

NIST 800
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) MQTT
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft