NIST Contracts in Bristol

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 52 96
Rank change year-on-year +5 +44 +3
Contract jobs citing NIST 8 22 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.49% 2.08% 0.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.90% 14.67% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £663 - £560
25th Percentile £674 £513 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +36.19% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £750 £563 £663
90th Percentile - £665 £700
South West median daily rate £613 £582 £625
% change year-on-year +5.24% -6.88% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £72.75 -
South West median hourly rate - £78.00 £64.15
% change year-on-year - +21.60% -6.47%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 116 150 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 21.60% 14.19% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 63 103
10th Percentile £235 £312 £253
25th Percentile £355 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +7.84% +10.27%
75th Percentile £570 £608 £638
90th Percentile £676 £750 £788
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £515
% change year-on-year - +1.94% +7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 33 16
10th Percentile £59.38 £35.00 £14.52
25th Percentile - - £29.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -33.33% +58.56%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £78.06
90th Percentile £76.85 £74.44 £83.75
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £64.57
% change year-on-year +44.44% -30.31% -5.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for NIST in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Consultant
2 4 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Security Consultant
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps Architect
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Compliance Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Information Assurance Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Information Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 1 (12.50%) OpenID
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (37.50%) Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) CESG
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) OWASP
2 4 (50.00%) Security Management
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) Network Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Information Assurance
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (12.50%) Boundary Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (12.50%) Data Security
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Multithreading
5 1 (12.50%) RBAC
5 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) SIEM
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Detection
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CISM
1 5 (62.50%) CISSP
2 4 (50.00%) CEH
2 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (37.50%) CCSP
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (37.50%) OSCP
3 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) CISA
4 1 (12.50%) CISMP
4 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (12.50%) ISACA
4 1 (12.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) COBIT
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) Def Stans
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On