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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 95 78
Rank change year-on-year +7 -17 +31
Contract jobs citing NIST 44 25 45
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.92% 1.44% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.43% 8.33% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 42
10th Percentile £425 £425 £340
25th Percentile £500 £530 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £665 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +6.40% -7.41%
75th Percentile £750 £753 £775
90th Percentile £815 £788 £875
Central London median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -7.41%

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 422 300 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.39% 17.24% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 194 265
10th Percentile £343 £375 £366
25th Percentile £425 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% +0.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £653 £713 £650
90th Percentile £763 £819 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £19.23 - £16.78
25th Percentile £22.24 - £17.96
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +6.77% -
75th Percentile £52.25 - £22.65
90th Percentile £66.95 - £23.46
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £22.50 £23.40
% change year-on-year +16.04% -3.85% -6.40%

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 15 May 2026.

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 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (45.45%) AWS
1 20 (45.45%) Azure
2 5 (11.36%) GCP
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (4.55%) OCI
4 2 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (2.27%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.27%) Collibra
5 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) IaaS
5 1 (2.27%) PaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) DNS
2 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.27%) LAN
2 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.27%) WAN
2 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Data Hub
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Git
1 1 (2.27%) JIRA
1 1 (2.27%) MLflow
General
1 21 (47.73%) Finance
2 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 10 (22.73%) Financial Institution
4 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.36%) Banking
6 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.55%) Legal
8 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Project Manager
2 11 (25.00%) Migration Manager
2 11 (25.00%) Migration Project Manager
3 6 (13.64%) Analyst
3 6 (13.64%) Architect
4 5 (11.36%) Security Architect
5 4 (9.09%) IT Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Security Manager
5 4 (9.09%) SOX Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) IT Risk Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Security Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) SOC Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.27%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (2.27%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (2.27%) .NET
2 1 (2.27%) Google JAX
2 1 (2.27%) Hugging Face
2 1 (2.27%) JAX
2 1 (2.27%) Kafka
2 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.27%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.27%) Spring
2 1 (2.27%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.27%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Security Posture
2 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.27%) CMDB
4 1 (2.27%) CSOC
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Genomics
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Synthetic Data
4 1 (2.27%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
1 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (36.36%) Security Architecture
3 15 (34.09%) Agile
3 15 (34.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (29.55%) Project Management
5 12 (27.27%) Migration
5 12 (27.27%) PRINCE2
5 12 (27.27%) Project Delivery
5 12 (27.27%) Validation
6 11 (25.00%) Project Governance
7 9 (20.45%) Risk Management
8 8 (18.18%) AI
9 6 (13.64%) Attestation
9 6 (13.64%) Cloud Security
9 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (13.64%) Incident Response
9 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (11.36%) SIEM
10 5 (11.36%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.82%) Python
2 2 (4.55%) Java
2 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.55%) SQL
3 1 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) CISSP
1 12 (27.27%) PMI Certification
1 12 (27.27%) PMP
2 7 (15.91%) Degree
2 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
3 6 (13.64%) CISA
3 6 (13.64%) CRISC
4 5 (11.36%) CISM
4 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.82%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (6.82%) OSCP
6 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.55%) CEH
6 2 (4.55%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (4.55%) GIAC
7 1 (2.27%) CCSP
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (72.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (29.55%) GDPR
3 9 (20.45%) COBIT
4 7 (15.91%) NIST 800
5 6 (13.64%) GRC
5 6 (13.64%) ITGC
6 5 (11.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (9.09%) NCSC
7 4 (9.09%) PCI DSS
8 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
10 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (2.27%) Def Stans
10 1 (2.27%) EU AI Act
10 1 (2.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) CyberArk
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) Google
4 2 (4.55%) VMware
5 1 (2.27%) BMC
5 1 (2.27%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.27%) OneTrust
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.27%) Splunk
5 1 (2.27%) Zerto