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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 95 87
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +43
Contract jobs citing NIST 39 25 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.75% 1.43% 1.87%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.05% 8.96% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 39
10th Percentile £420 £425 £340
25th Percentile £500 £511 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £648 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +3.68% -3.85%
75th Percentile £750 £735 £738
90th Percentile £800 £769 £875
Central London median daily rate £625 £641 £625
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -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 431 279 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.37% 15.93% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 182 270
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £443 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% +2.50% -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £689 £675
90th Percentile £775 £799 £753
Central London median daily rate £538 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.44% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £20.01 - £17.18
25th Percentile £24.18 - £18.94
Median hourly rate £27.75 - £21.80
Median % change year-on-year - - -63.36%
75th Percentile £41.31 - £36.44
90th Percentile £62.58 - £58.83
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £22.50 £24.78
% change year-on-year +16.04% -9.20% -0.88%

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 17 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (56.41%) Azure
2 21 (53.85%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) GCP
4 3 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
4 3 (7.69%) OCI
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.56%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.56%) Collibra
6 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub
6 1 (2.56%) IaaS
6 1 (2.56%) PaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.56%) LAN
2 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.56%) WAN
2 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.56%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Git
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
1 1 (2.56%) MLflow
General
1 18 (46.15%) Finance
2 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.64%) Financial Institution
4 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (15.38%) Banking
6 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Migration Manager
1 11 (28.21%) Migration Project Manager
1 11 (28.21%) Project Manager
2 6 (15.38%) Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Architect
3 4 (10.26%) IT Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) SOX Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Security Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) CyberArk Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) IT Risk Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Risk Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Digital Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Digital Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Presales Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) .NET
2 1 (2.56%) Google JAX
2 1 (2.56%) Hugging Face
2 1 (2.56%) JAX
2 1 (2.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.56%) Spring
2 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.56%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.26%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) CMDB
4 1 (2.56%) CSOC
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
1 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Agile
1 15 (38.46%) Security Architecture
2 14 (35.90%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (33.33%) Validation
4 12 (30.77%) Migration
4 12 (30.77%) PRINCE2
4 12 (30.77%) Project Management
5 11 (28.21%) Project Delivery
5 11 (28.21%) Project Governance
6 8 (20.51%) AI
7 7 (17.95%) Incident Response
8 6 (15.38%) Change Management
8 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
8 6 (15.38%) Information Security
8 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.38%) Risk Management
8 6 (15.38%) SIEM
9 5 (12.82%) Security Operations
9 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.69%) Python
2 2 (5.13%) Java
2 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) PMI Certification
1 12 (30.77%) PMP
2 11 (28.21%) CISSP
3 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 8 (20.51%) Degree
5 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
6 6 (15.38%) CISA
6 6 (15.38%) CRISC
7 5 (12.82%) CISM
8 3 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (7.69%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (7.69%) OSCP
9 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (5.13%) CEH
9 2 (5.13%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (5.13%) GIAC
9 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (82.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (33.33%) GDPR
3 8 (20.51%) NIST 800
4 6 (15.38%) COBIT
5 5 (12.82%) NCSC
5 5 (12.82%) PCI DSS
5 5 (12.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (10.26%) ITGC
7 3 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
8 2 (5.13%) GRC
9 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (2.56%) Def Stans
9 1 (2.56%) EU AI Act
9 1 (2.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (2.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) CyberArk
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) Google
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle
4 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 2 (5.13%) VMware
5 1 (2.56%) BMC
5 1 (2.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.56%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.56%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Zerto