NIST Contracts in Central London

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 93 123
Rank change year-on-year -5 +30 +49
Contract jobs citing NIST 24 42 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.26% 1.73% 1.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.29% 10.24% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 39 36
10th Percentile £425 £340 £481
25th Percentile £539 £523 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £663
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +7.51%
75th Percentile £715 £775 £763
90th Percentile £765 £875 £850
London median daily rate £640 £668 £688
% change year-on-year -4.12% -2.91% +8.91%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 329 410 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.25% 16.94% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 291 365
10th Percentile £375 £363 £355
25th Percentile £456 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £703 £650 £713
90th Percentile £816 £750 £825
London median daily rate £529 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.91% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 1
10th Percentile £19.67 £17.96 -
25th Percentile £21.44 £20.44 -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -6.40% -50.98%
75th Percentile £24.25 £25.92 -
90th Percentile £56.50 £35.16 -
London median hourly rate £34.50 £24.18 £26.00
% change year-on-year +42.68% -7.00% -41.57%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Central London

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in Central London

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Central London over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Central London

NIST
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
City of London -11 21 £641 +2.56% 16
West End of London - 3 £650 - 7
City of Westminster - 3 £650 -
NIST
London

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 8 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.50%) OCI
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Architect
1 12 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) CyberArk Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
4 1 (4.17%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (4.17%) IT Risk Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Operations Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (4.17%) Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) OAuth
1 3 (12.50%) OpenID
1 3 (12.50%) SAML
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 2 (8.33%) CMDB
3 2 (8.33%) Insider Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Reinsurance
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Cloud Security
2 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (29.17%) DevSecOps
4 7 (29.17%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 6 (25.00%) SABSA
5 6 (25.00%) Security Architecture
5 6 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
6 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (16.67%) DevOps
7 4 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 4 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
7 4 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
8 3 (12.50%) Identity Management
8 3 (12.50%) Migration
8 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
8 3 (12.50%) SIEM
8 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) Java
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) CISSP
2 6 (25.00%) CISM
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (20.83%) Degree
4 3 (12.50%) OCP
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (8.33%) CASP
5 2 (8.33%) CCSP
5 2 (8.33%) CEH
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (8.33%) CREST Certified
5 2 (8.33%) CSSLP
5 2 (8.33%) GIAC
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.17%) CRISC
6 1 (4.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (87.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (29.17%) GDPR
3 4 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (8.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (8.33%) NCSC
6 1 (4.17%) COBIT
6 1 (4.17%) COSO
6 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (4.17%) EU AI Act
6 1 (4.17%) GRC
6 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
6 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) CyberArk
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco
2 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.17%) Rapid7
2 1 (4.17%) VMware