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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 79 117
Rank change year-on-year -19 +38 +48
Contract jobs citing NIST 25 45 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.42% 2.07% 1.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.56% 12.03% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 42 37
10th Percentile £425 £340 £483
25th Percentile £530 £518 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £753 £775 £750
90th Percentile £788 £875 £850
Central London median daily rate £650 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

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 292 374 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.62% 17.21% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 271 337
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £462 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £708 £674 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £23.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.43% -43.37%

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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

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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 May 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) OCI
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (4.00%) VLAN
General
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Legal
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Architect
1 8 (32.00%) Security Architect
2 4 (16.00%) IT Manager
2 4 (16.00%) IT Risk Manager
2 4 (16.00%) Risk Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Security Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) CyberArk Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Operational Security Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Operations Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Risk Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Security Operations Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) OAuth
1 3 (12.00%) OpenID
1 3 (12.00%) SAML
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (8.00%) CMDB
3 2 (8.00%) Insider Threat
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Reinsurance
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (28.00%) Incident Response
3 7 (28.00%) Risk Management
4 6 (24.00%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 5 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 5 (20.00%) Project Management
5 5 (20.00%) Security Architecture
6 4 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (16.00%) Budget Management
6 4 (16.00%) Information Security
6 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (16.00%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (16.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (16.00%) SIEM
6 4 (16.00%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (12.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) CISSP
2 7 (28.00%) CISM
3 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (20.00%) Degree
5 4 (16.00%) CISA
6 3 (12.00%) OCP
6 3 (12.00%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (8.00%) CEH
7 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
8 1 (4.00%) CCSP
8 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (4.00%) CRISC
8 1 (4.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (36.00%) GDPR
3 6 (24.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (16.00%) COBIT
5 3 (12.00%) COSO
5 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (8.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (4.00%) EU AI Act
7 1 (4.00%) GRC
7 1 (4.00%) NIST 800
7 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
7 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) CyberArk
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco
2 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (4.00%) VMware