NIST Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 91 106
Rank change year-on-year -4 +15 +65
Contract jobs citing NIST 27 35 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.49% 1.64% 1.59%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.06% 9.54% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 33 39
10th Percentile £425 £500 £485
25th Percentile £516 £563 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -3.85% +6.56%
75th Percentile £724 £775 £750
90th Percentile £795 £875 £850
Central London median daily rate £641 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +2.48% -3.85% +5.48%

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 335 367 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.43% 17.21% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 256 365
10th Percentile £366 £363 £400
25th Percentile £436 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -8.29% +4.35%
75th Percentile £702 £650 £713
90th Percentile £800 £770 £823
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £28.05 £16.78 -
25th Percentile £37.13 £17.96 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +164.50% - -
75th Percentile £72.75 £22.65 -
90th Percentile £82.35 £23.46 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £23.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +47.35% -6.40% -39.76%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for NIST in the City of London

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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) AWS
3 7 (25.93%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (11.11%) OCI
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Network Security
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (3.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
1 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) MLflow
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 13 (48.15%) Finance
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Legal
5 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.70%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Architect
1 11 (40.74%) Security Architect
2 3 (11.11%) Analyst
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Security Architect
2 3 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Architect
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Consultant
3 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Data Scientist
3 2 (7.41%) Security Consultant
3 2 (7.41%) Security Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Senior
3 2 (7.41%) Senior Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (3.70%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) OAuth
1 3 (11.11%) OpenID
1 3 (11.11%) SAML
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
1 4 (14.81%) Security Posture
2 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.70%) CMDB
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Insider Threat
4 1 (3.70%) NHS
4 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Cloud Security
2 11 (40.74%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (29.63%) Risk Assessment
4 8 (29.63%) Security Architecture
5 7 (25.93%) Computer Science
6 6 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (22.22%) DevOps
6 6 (22.22%) Incident Response
6 6 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 6 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
7 5 (18.52%) DevSecOps
7 5 (18.52%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (18.52%) Information Security
8 3 (11.11%) Agile
8 3 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
8 3 (11.11%) Project Management
8 3 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
8 3 (11.11%) SIEM
8 3 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) CISSP
2 7 (25.93%) Degree
3 6 (22.22%) CISM
4 5 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
4 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
5 3 (11.11%) OCP
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (7.41%) CEH
6 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.70%) CISA
7 1 (3.70%) CRISC
7 1 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (3.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (81.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (25.93%) GDPR
3 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 3 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (7.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (3.70%) COBIT
5 1 (3.70%) COSO
5 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.70%) EU AI Act
5 1 (3.70%) GRC
5 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.70%) NCSC
5 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.70%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.70%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.70%) VMware