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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 100 93
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 +76
Contract jobs citing NIST 30 20 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.64% 0.99% 1.54%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.89% 6.43% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 28
10th Percentile £400 £435 £382
25th Percentile £463 £473 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £770 £700 £680
90th Percentile £858 £768 £723
Central London median daily rate £545 £550 £630
% change year-on-year -0.91% -12.70% -3.08%

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 380 311 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.72% 15.34% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 169 292
10th Percentile £325 £323 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £685
90th Percentile £825 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -6.46% -2.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £26.51 - -
25th Percentile £26.54 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £34.30 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £28.75 £72.50
% change year-on-year -8.38% -60.34% +271.79%

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 29 December 2025.

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 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) AWS
3 7 (23.33%) Entra ID
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (13.33%) GitHub
6 3 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (10.00%) OCI
6 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (6.67%) Azure AI
7 2 (6.67%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (6.67%) IaaS
7 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (6.67%) PaaS
7 2 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.33%) Pinecone
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
1 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (63.33%) Finance
2 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Banking
4 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Financial Institution
5 3 (10.00%) Legal
5 3 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 4 (13.33%) Consultant
1 4 (13.33%) Security Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) Architect
2 3 (10.00%) Lead
2 3 (10.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (10.00%) Tester
3 2 (6.67%) Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (6.67%) CyberArk Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Migration Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Migration Project Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Security Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Power Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Principal Security Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Vulnerability Consultant
4 1 (3.33%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) LangChain
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) Faiss
3 1 (3.33%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (3.33%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (3.33%) Spring
3 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.33%) CMDB
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) SCADA
4 1 (3.33%) STIX
4 1 (3.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (33.33%) SIEM
2 10 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (26.67%) Incident Response
3 8 (26.67%) Security Architecture
4 7 (23.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 7 (23.33%) Data Protection
4 7 (23.33%) Information Security
5 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 6 (20.00%) RBAC
5 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (16.67%) AI
6 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 5 (16.67%) DevOps
6 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 5 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
6 5 (16.67%) Use Case
7 4 (13.33%) Change Management
7 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
7 4 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.67%) Java
3 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.33%) Bicep
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) CISSP
2 7 (23.33%) CISA
2 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) CISM
3 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (10.00%) CRISC
4 3 (10.00%) Degree
5 2 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (6.67%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.67%) CISMP
5 2 (6.67%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 2 (6.67%) MCP
5 2 (6.67%) PMI Certification
5 2 (6.67%) PMP
5 2 (6.67%) SANS
6 1 (3.33%) CCSP
6 1 (3.33%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (30.00%) GDPR
3 7 (23.33%) COBIT
4 4 (13.33%) EU AI Act
4 4 (13.33%) GRC
4 4 (13.33%) NCSC
4 4 (13.33%) PCI DSS
5 3 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (6.67%) ITGC
6 2 (6.67%) NIST 800
6 2 (6.67%) SOC 2
7 1 (3.33%) COSO
7 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
7 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.33%) Grafana
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 3 (10.00%) Google
3 3 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.67%) CheckPoint
4 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.67%) LogRhythm
4 2 (6.67%) OpenAI
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) Rapid7
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) AlgoSec
5 1 (3.33%) BMC
5 1 (3.33%) Qualys
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Tenable
5 1 (3.33%) Tufin
5 1 (3.33%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) Zerto