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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 93 95
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +21
Contract jobs citing NIST 44 31 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.81% 1.66% 1.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.40% 8.91% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 33
10th Percentile £463 £425 £500
25th Percentile £500 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £580 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -7.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £750 £715 £775
90th Percentile £798 £775 £875
Central London median daily rate £623 £585 £625
% change year-on-year +6.41% -6.40% -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 423 348 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.42% 18.69% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 249 252
10th Percentile £374 £365 £363
25th Percentile £463 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £653
90th Percentile £775 £811 £774
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £31.75 £28.05 £16.78
25th Percentile £38.50 £37.13 £17.96
Median hourly rate £51.00 £54.50 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +164.50% -
75th Percentile £64.50 £72.75 £22.65
90th Percentile £71.85 £82.35 £23.46
Central London median hourly rate £42.50 £34.48 £23.40
% change year-on-year +23.26% +47.35% -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 17 July 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 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) AWS
2 15 (34.09%) Azure
3 7 (15.91%) GCP
4 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (9.09%) SaaS
5 3 (6.82%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.55%) OCI
6 2 (4.55%) Vertex AI
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (2.27%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (2.27%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.27%) Collibra
7 1 (2.27%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.27%) Google Gemini
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Network Security
1 2 (4.55%) X.509
2 1 (2.27%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (2.27%) DNS
2 1 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) JIRA
1 1 (2.27%) MLflow
General
1 17 (38.64%) Finance
2 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Financial Institution
4 5 (11.36%) Legal
5 4 (9.09%) Banking
6 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Law
7 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 7 (15.91%) Analyst
3 6 (13.64%) Architect
3 6 (13.64%) Migration Manager
3 6 (13.64%) Migration Project Manager
4 5 (11.36%) Security Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Consultant
5 4 (9.09%) IT Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Lead
5 4 (9.09%) SOX Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Security Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) IT Risk Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Risk Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Security Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Senior
8 1 (2.27%) Design Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Security Analyst
8 1 (2.27%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) Google JAX
1 1 (2.27%) Hugging Face
1 1 (2.27%) JAX
1 1 (2.27%) Kafka
1 1 (2.27%) OAuth
1 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (2.27%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.27%) TensorFlow
1 1 (2.27%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Security Posture
2 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) CMDB
4 1 (2.27%) CSOC
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Genomics
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Synthetic Data
4 1 (2.27%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (52.27%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (27.27%) Risk Management
2 12 (27.27%) Security Architecture
3 11 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (22.73%) AI
5 9 (20.45%) Agile
5 9 (20.45%) Project Delivery
5 9 (20.45%) Validation
6 8 (18.18%) Project Management
6 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (15.91%) Incident Response
7 7 (15.91%) Migration
7 7 (15.91%) Risk Assessment
8 6 (13.64%) Attestation
8 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (13.64%) PRINCE2
8 6 (13.64%) Project Governance
8 6 (13.64%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (11.36%) Information Security
9 5 (11.36%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.82%) Python
2 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.27%) Java
3 1 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) CISSP
2 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) Degree
3 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
4 6 (13.64%) CISA
4 6 (13.64%) CISM
4 6 (13.64%) CRISC
4 6 (13.64%) PMI Certification
4 6 (13.64%) PMP
5 3 (6.82%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.55%) CEH
6 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.55%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (4.55%) GIAC
6 2 (4.55%) OSCP
7 1 (2.27%) CCSK
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (68.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (27.27%) GDPR
3 10 (22.73%) COBIT
4 7 (15.91%) ITGC
5 6 (13.64%) GRC
5 6 (13.64%) NCSC
5 6 (13.64%) NIST 800
6 5 (11.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 4 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (6.82%) EU AI Act
8 3 (6.82%) PCI DSS
8 3 (6.82%) SOC 2
9 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
10 1 (2.27%) Def Stans
10 1 (2.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (2.27%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.64%) CyberArk
3 3 (6.82%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.27%) OneTrust
4 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.27%) Qualys
4 1 (2.27%) Splunk