NIST Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 109 106
Rank change year-on-year +21 -3 +64
Contract jobs citing NIST 30 22 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.75% 1.04% 1.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.65% 6.16% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 26
10th Percentile £418 £498 £491
25th Percentile £513 £591 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £680
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -8.09% +4.62%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £838
90th Percentile £825 - £875
Central London median daily rate £563 £625 £680
% change year-on-year -10.00% -8.09% +4.62%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 347 357 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.29% 16.85% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 204 326
10th Percentile £334 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £591
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -1.46%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £700
90th Percentile £827 £750 £794
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £23.83 - -
25th Percentile £26.57 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £56.75 - -
90th Percentile £75.95 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

NIST job vacancy trend in the City of London

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NIST

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the City of London

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) AWS
3 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (20.00%) GCP
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (6.67%) Azure AI
7 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.67%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.33%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) Pinecone
2 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
1 2 (6.67%) MLflow
2 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (63.33%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 3 (10.00%) Legal
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Architect
1 6 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Consultant
3 3 (10.00%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Tester
4 2 (6.67%) Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Architect
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Security Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Data Scientist
4 2 (6.67%) Security Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Security Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Security Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) LangChain
2 1 (3.33%) Faiss
2 1 (3.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (3.33%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) AI Agents
1 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (10.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.33%) NHS
3 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.33%) SCADA
3 1 (3.33%) STIX
3 1 (3.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (30.00%) AI
2 9 (30.00%) Cloud Security
2 9 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 9 (30.00%) Security Architecture
3 7 (23.33%) Information Security
3 7 (23.33%) Machine Learning
3 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 6 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (16.67%) Data Privacy
5 5 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 5 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 5 (16.67%) SIEM
6 4 (13.33%) Analytics
6 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
6 4 (13.33%) SABSA
6 4 (13.33%) Use Case
6 4 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.33%) Bicep
3 1 (3.33%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) CISSP
2 7 (23.33%) CISA
2 7 (23.33%) CISM
3 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 4 (13.33%) Degree
4 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (10.00%) CRISC
6 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
6 2 (6.67%) MCP
7 1 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (3.33%) CEH
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (3.33%) GCFA
7 1 (3.33%) GCIA
7 1 (3.33%) GCIH
7 1 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (3.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (63.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (23.33%) COBIT
2 7 (23.33%) GDPR
3 4 (13.33%) EU AI Act
4 3 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (10.00%) GRC
4 3 (10.00%) NCSC
5 2 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (6.67%) ITGC
5 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
5 2 (6.67%) SLA
5 2 (6.67%) SOC 2
6 1 (3.33%) COSO
6 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
6 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.33%) Grafana
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.33%) AlgoSec
4 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.33%) LogRhythm
4 1 (3.33%) Qualys
4 1 (3.33%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Tenable
4 1 (3.33%) Tufin