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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 105 115
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 +54
Contract jobs citing NIST 32 16 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.82% 0.77% 1.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.70% 4.86% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 22
10th Percentile £414 £443 £488
25th Percentile £500 £496 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £618
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.83% -5.00%
75th Percentile £734 £638 £679
90th Percentile £839 £775 £680
Central London median daily rate £563 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.23% -4.62%

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 368 329 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.90% 15.76% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 180 327
10th Percentile £325 £348 £400
25th Percentile £413 £459 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £561 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% -2.39% -2.13%
75th Percentile £676 £656 £695
90th Percentile £825 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £584
% change year-on-year - -5.78% +0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £26.53 - -
25th Percentile £26.57 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £56.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile £75.95 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.24 £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -2.17% -51.72% +249.40%

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 18 November 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 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) Entra ID
4 6 (18.75%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (18.75%) GCP
4 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (12.50%) GitHub
5 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (6.25%) Azure AI
7 2 (6.25%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (6.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
3 1 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.13%) Pinecone
2 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
1 2 (6.25%) MLflow
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (62.50%) Finance
2 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Financial Institution
5 3 (9.38%) Legal
5 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.13%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Consultant
1 5 (15.63%) Security Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Architect
2 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Lead
3 3 (9.38%) Security Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Tester
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Architect
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Security Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Data Scientist
4 2 (6.25%) Security Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) SIEM Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Vulnerability Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) LangChain
1 2 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) .NET
2 1 (3.13%) Faiss
2 1 (3.13%) FastAPI
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (3.13%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (3.13%) Spring
2 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.38%) AI Agents
2 3 (9.38%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (9.38%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.13%) NHS
4 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.13%) SCADA
4 1 (3.13%) STIX
4 1 (3.13%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (31.25%) SIEM
3 9 (28.13%) Incident Response
3 9 (28.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 8 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 8 (25.00%) Information Security
5 7 (21.88%) AI
5 7 (21.88%) Cloud Security
5 7 (21.88%) Risk Assessment
5 7 (21.88%) Security Architecture
6 6 (18.75%) DevOps
7 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
7 5 (15.63%) RBAC
7 5 (15.63%) Security Operations
7 5 (15.63%) Threat Detection
7 5 (15.63%) Threat Modelling
7 5 (15.63%) Use Case
8 4 (12.50%) Data Governance
8 4 (12.50%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) Java
2 2 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.13%) Bicep
3 1 (3.13%) C#
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) CISSP
2 7 (21.88%) CISA
3 5 (15.63%) CISM
3 5 (15.63%) Degree
3 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 3 (9.38%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (9.38%) CRISC
5 3 (9.38%) Master's Degree
6 2 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (6.25%) CISMP
6 2 (6.25%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (6.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (6.25%) MCP
6 2 (6.25%) SANS
7 1 (3.13%) CCSP
7 1 (3.13%) GCFA
7 1 (3.13%) GCIA
7 1 (3.13%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (65.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (25.00%) GDPR
3 7 (21.88%) COBIT
4 5 (15.63%) NCSC
4 5 (15.63%) PCI DSS
5 4 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (12.50%) EU AI Act
5 4 (12.50%) GRC
6 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (6.25%) ITGC
6 2 (6.25%) SOC 2
7 1 (3.13%) COSO
7 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
7 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (3.13%) NIST 800
7 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) CyberArk
2 3 (9.38%) Google
2 3 (9.38%) Palo Alto
3 2 (6.25%) CheckPoint
3 2 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.25%) LogRhythm
3 2 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 2 (6.25%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.13%) AlgoSec
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Qualys
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) Tenable
4 1 (3.13%) Tufin