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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 93 86
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +41
Contract jobs citing NIST 35 23 40
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.62% 1.33% 1.74%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.03% 8.58% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 37
10th Percentile £425 £425 £340
25th Percentile £500 £470 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £641 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.39% +2.48% -3.85%
75th Percentile £760 £745 £775
90th Percentile £800 £771 £875
Central London median daily rate £663 £640 £625
% change year-on-year +3.52% +2.40% -3.85%

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 436 268 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.16% 15.51% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 173 275
10th Percentile £363 £375 £366
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £674
90th Percentile £800 £784 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £20.01 - £25.05
25th Percentile £24.18 - £32.75
Median hourly rate £27.75 - £46.55
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.76%
75th Percentile £41.31 - £60.64
90th Percentile £62.58 - £68.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £20.35 £34.53
% change year-on-year +28.34% -41.08% +38.12%

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 3 April 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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) Azure
2 19 (54.29%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) GCP
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon SageMaker
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (8.57%) OCI
5 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.71%) IaaS
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.71%) PaaS
5 2 (5.71%) SaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.86%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.86%) Collibra
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Network Security
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) LAN
2 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.86%) WAN
2 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.86%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Git
1 1 (2.86%) MLflow
General
1 18 (51.43%) Finance
2 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 10 (28.57%) Financial Institution
4 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Banking
5 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Migration Manager
1 11 (31.43%) Migration Project Manager
1 11 (31.43%) Project Manager
2 4 (11.43%) Analyst
2 4 (11.43%) Architect
3 3 (8.57%) IT Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Security Architect
3 3 (8.57%) Security Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) SOX Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) CyberArk Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Security Manager
4 2 (5.71%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Business Change Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Change Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Design Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Security Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Security Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) .NET
2 1 (2.86%) Google JAX
2 1 (2.86%) Hugging Face
2 1 (2.86%) JAX
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.86%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.86%) Spring
2 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.86%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.57%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) CMDB
4 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
1 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Security Architecture
2 14 (40.00%) Agile
2 14 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (37.14%) Validation
4 12 (34.29%) Migration
4 12 (34.29%) PRINCE2
4 12 (34.29%) Project Delivery
4 12 (34.29%) Project Management
5 11 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (31.43%) Project Governance
6 7 (20.00%) AI
7 6 (17.14%) Incident Response
7 6 (17.14%) SIEM
7 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (14.29%) Change Management
8 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (11.43%) Information Security
9 4 (11.43%) Risk Management
9 4 (11.43%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) Java
2 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) PMI Certification
1 12 (34.29%) PMP
2 9 (25.71%) CISSP
3 7 (20.00%) Degree
3 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
5 5 (14.29%) CISA
5 5 (14.29%) CISM
5 5 (14.29%) CRISC
6 3 (8.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (8.57%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (8.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (5.71%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (5.71%) GIAC
7 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.86%) CEH
8 1 (2.86%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (85.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (40.00%) GDPR
3 5 (14.29%) PCI DSS
4 4 (11.43%) COBIT
4 4 (11.43%) NIST 800
4 4 (11.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (8.57%) GRC
5 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (8.57%) ITGC
5 3 (8.57%) NCSC
6 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
7 1 (2.86%) EU AI Act
7 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) CyberArk
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.43%) Google
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) VMware
5 1 (2.86%) BMC
5 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.86%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.86%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) Zerto