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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 102 110
Rank change year-on-year +17 +8 +63
Contract jobs citing NIST 33 22 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.84% 1.05% 1.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.35% 6.45% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 30
10th Percentile £473 £500 £463
25th Percentile £519 £563 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £625 £628
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -0.40% -3.46%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £809
90th Percentile £823 - £875
Central London median daily rate £646 £625 £630
% change year-on-year +3.28% -0.79% -6.67%

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 353 341 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.71% 16.33% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 202 357
10th Percentile £327 £363 £400
25th Percentile £416 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £700
90th Percentile £835 £750 £805
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £600
% change year-on-year -0.18% -8.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £23.83 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £26.57 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -
75th Percentile £56.75 £22.50 -
90th Percentile £75.95 £23.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £25.18 -
% change year-on-year +35.03% - -

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

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 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the City of London

NIST
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 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Azure
2 9 (27.27%) AWS
3 8 (24.24%) GCP
4 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.09%) OCI
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (6.06%) Azure AI
6 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.06%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) Network Security
3 1 (3.03%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.03%) VLAN
3 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) Pinecone
2 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
1 2 (6.06%) MLflow
2 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (63.64%) Finance
2 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Banking
3 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 3 (9.09%) Legal
5 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.03%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Architect
1 10 (30.30%) Security Architect
2 4 (12.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Consultant
3 3 (9.09%) Lead
3 3 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) Tester
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Architect
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Security Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Data Scientist
4 2 (6.06%) Security Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) OAuth
1 3 (9.09%) OpenID
1 3 (9.09%) SAML
2 2 (6.06%) LangChain
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.03%) Faiss
3 1 (3.03%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (3.03%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
1 4 (12.12%) Security Posture
2 3 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 3 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Insider Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.03%) NHS
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) SCADA
4 1 (3.03%) STIX
4 1 (3.03%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (30.30%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (30.30%) Cloud Security
3 8 (24.24%) Machine Learning
4 7 (21.21%) Data Loss Prevention
4 7 (21.21%) DevOps
4 7 (21.21%) Incident Response
4 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.21%) Risk Assessment
4 7 (21.21%) Security Architecture
5 6 (18.18%) DevSecOps
5 6 (18.18%) Information Security
5 6 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
6 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
6 5 (15.15%) Data Privacy
6 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (12.12%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (12.12%) RBAC
7 4 (12.12%) SABSA
7 4 (12.12%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) Java
3 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) Bicep
4 1 (3.03%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) CISSP
2 7 (21.21%) CISA
2 7 (21.21%) CISM
2 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
3 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (9.09%) CRISC
4 3 (9.09%) OCP
4 3 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 2 (6.06%) MCP
6 1 (3.03%) CEH
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.03%) CSSLP
6 1 (3.03%) GCFA
6 1 (3.03%) GCIA
6 1 (3.03%) GCIH
6 1 (3.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (3.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (21.21%) COBIT
2 7 (21.21%) GDPR
3 5 (15.15%) EU AI Act
4 3 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
4 3 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (6.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (6.06%) GRC
5 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (6.06%) ITGC
5 2 (6.06%) SLA
5 2 (6.06%) SOC 2
6 1 (3.03%) COSO
6 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
6 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle
2 3 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 2 (6.06%) CheckPoint
3 2 (6.06%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.06%) Google
3 2 (6.06%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.03%) AlgoSec
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.03%) Qualys
4 1 (3.03%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.03%) Tenable
4 1 (3.03%) Tufin
4 1 (3.03%) VMware