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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 96 85
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 +28
Contract jobs citing NIST 46 26 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.99% 1.50% 1.99%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.11% 8.67% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 17 40
10th Percentile £425 £425 £340
25th Percentile £500 £531 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £655 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +4.80% -5.66%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £775
90th Percentile £800 £785 £875
Central London median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.66%

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 414 300 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.91% 17.28% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 196 267
10th Percentile £350 £375 £367
25th Percentile £427 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +2.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £650
90th Percentile £763 £824 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £19.23 - £16.78
25th Percentile £22.24 - £17.96
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +6.77% -
75th Percentile £52.25 - £22.65
90th Percentile £66.95 - £23.46
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £22.50 £23.40
% change year-on-year +16.04% -3.85% -6.40%

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 20 May 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 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (43.48%) AWS
2 19 (41.30%) Azure
3 4 (8.70%) GCP
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon SageMaker
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.35%) SaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.17%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.17%) Collibra
6 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.17%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.17%) OCI
6 1 (2.17%) Rubrik
6 1 (2.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Network Security
2 1 (2.17%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.17%) LAN
2 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.17%) WAN
2 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Data Hub
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
1 1 (2.17%) MLflow
General
1 22 (47.83%) Finance
2 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 11 (23.91%) Financial Institution
4 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.87%) Banking
6 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Legal
8 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Project Manager
2 11 (23.91%) Migration Manager
2 11 (23.91%) Migration Project Manager
3 6 (13.04%) Analyst
3 6 (13.04%) Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Security Architect
5 4 (8.70%) IT Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Security Manager
5 4 (8.70%) SOX Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Consultant
7 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 2 (4.35%) IT Risk Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Risk Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Security Consultant
7 2 (4.35%) SOC Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Incident Analyst
8 1 (2.17%) Programme Delivery Manager
8 1 (2.17%) Security Assurance Manager
8 1 (2.17%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) Google JAX
1 1 (2.17%) Hugging Face
1 1 (2.17%) JAX
1 1 (2.17%) Kafka
1 1 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (2.17%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.17%) REST
1 1 (2.17%) TensorFlow
1 1 (2.17%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Security Posture
2 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) CMDB
4 1 (2.17%) CSOC
4 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Genomics
4 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.17%) Synthetic Data
4 1 (2.17%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
1 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (36.96%) Security Architecture
3 15 (32.61%) Agile
3 15 (32.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (28.26%) Project Delivery
4 13 (28.26%) Project Management
4 13 (28.26%) Validation
5 12 (26.09%) Migration
5 12 (26.09%) PRINCE2
6 11 (23.91%) Project Governance
7 10 (21.74%) Risk Management
8 8 (17.39%) AI
8 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (15.22%) Incident Response
10 6 (13.04%) Attestation
10 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (10.87%) Cloud Security
11 5 (10.87%) Regulatory Compliance
11 5 (10.87%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
1 2 (4.35%) Python
1 2 (4.35%) SQL
2 1 (2.17%) Java
2 1 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) PMI Certification
1 12 (26.09%) PMP
2 11 (23.91%) CISSP
3 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
4 7 (15.22%) Degree
4 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
5 6 (13.04%) CISA
5 6 (13.04%) CRISC
6 5 (10.87%) CISM
7 3 (6.52%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (4.35%) CEH
8 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (4.35%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (4.35%) GIAC
8 2 (4.35%) OSCP
9 1 (2.17%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (2.17%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (2.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (71.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (28.26%) GDPR
3 9 (19.57%) COBIT
4 7 (15.22%) NIST 800
5 6 (13.04%) ITGC
6 5 (10.87%) GRC
6 5 (10.87%) NCSC
6 5 (10.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (6.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 3 (6.52%) PCI DSS
9 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
9 2 (4.35%) EU AI Act
10 1 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (2.17%) Def Stans
10 1 (2.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (2.17%) JSP 440
10 1 (2.17%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) CyberArk
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.35%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) VMware
4 1 (2.17%) BMC
4 1 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.17%) OneTrust
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.17%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) Zerto