NIST Contracts in Buckinghamshire

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 21 48 79
Rank change year-on-year +27 +31 -9
Contract jobs citing NIST 17 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 7.20% 1.26% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.29% 6.52% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 1
10th Percentile £571 - -
25th Percentile £614 £606 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £613 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +28.95% -24.00%
75th Percentile £743 £637 £488
90th Percentile - £643 -
South East median daily rate £600 £613 £700
% change year-on-year -2.04% -12.50% +14.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 70 92 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 29.66% 19.33% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 56 122
10th Percentile £325 £170 £246
25th Percentile £398 £339 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £535
90th Percentile £706 £619 £614
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 0
10th Percentile £53.50 £18.00 -
25th Percentile £56.88 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +136.36% - -
75th Percentile £67.50 £29.06 -
90th Percentile - £30.00 -
South East median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +68.36% -11.29% +47.44%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Buckinghamshire

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in Buckinghamshire

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Buckinghamshire

NIST
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Milton Keynes +25 14 £630 -2.03% 13
Bletchley - 2 £550 -
NIST
South East

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
1 8 (47.06%) IaaS
1 8 (47.06%) PaaS
1 8 (47.06%) SaaS
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) VSAN
2 4 (23.53%) BGP
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (23.53%) MPLS
2 4 (23.53%) NGFW
2 4 (23.53%) OSPF
2 4 (23.53%) SD-WAN
2 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
2 4 (23.53%) VPN
2 4 (23.53%) WAN
3 3 (17.65%) DNS
3 3 (17.65%) VLAN
4 2 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (11.76%) Firewall
General
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Law
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Architect
2 11 (64.71%) Technical Architect
3 10 (58.82%) Senior
3 10 (58.82%) Senior Architect
3 10 (58.82%) Senior Technical Architect
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 4 (23.53%) Principal Architect
4 4 (23.53%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Senior VMware Architect
5 2 (11.76%) VMware Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Principal Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (58.82%) PKI
3 8 (47.06%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) TOGAF
2 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 14 (82.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (76.47%) Containerisation
3 13 (76.47%) Continuous Delivery
3 13 (76.47%) Continuous Integration
3 13 (76.47%) ITIL
3 13 (76.47%) Microservices
3 13 (76.47%) Zachman Framework
4 12 (70.59%) DevSecOps
4 12 (70.59%) IT Strategy
4 12 (70.59%) Technology Strategy
5 10 (58.82%) Matrix Organization
6 8 (47.06%) Use Case
7 7 (41.18%) Requirements Management
8 5 (29.41%) Virtual Environments
9 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (23.53%) DevOps
9 4 (23.53%) Prototyping
9 4 (23.53%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 15 (88.24%) SC Cleared
1 15 (88.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (82.35%) MCSE
2 14 (82.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (58.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (29.41%) CCNP
4 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) CREST Certified
5 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (94.12%) NCSC
2 13 (76.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.88%) ISO 9001
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) VMware Infrastructure
1 12 (70.59%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) VMware
2 12 (70.59%) Cisco
2 12 (70.59%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft