NIST Contract Job Trends in Canary Wharf

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Tower Hamlets > Canary Wharf

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Canary Wharf requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing NIST 5 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 9.26% 1.67% 5.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 29.41% 8.33% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile - - £524
25th Percentile £540 - £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £627 £630
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% -0.48% -30.00%
75th Percentile £585 - -
90th Percentile - - £648
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £563 £627 £630
% change year-on-year -10.29% -0.48% -30.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Canary Wharf

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 Canary Wharf.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 17 12 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf 31.48% 20.00% 26.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 34
10th Percentile £384 £192 £495
25th Percentile £540 £425 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -16.67% +27.06%
75th Percentile £675 £585 £619
90th Percentile - £627 £707
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £608 £450 £540
% change year-on-year +35.00% -16.67% +27.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.45
25th Percentile - - £14.85
Median hourly rate - - £15.52
75th Percentile - - £16.18
90th Percentile - - £16.58
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate - - £15.52

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Canary Wharf

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

NIST job vacancy trend in Canary Wharf

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing NIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing NIST

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) BCP
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Key Management
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) OWASP
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) GRC
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft