NIST Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.44% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 40.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
Central London median daily rate £556 £635 £618
% change year-on-year -12.40% +2.83% -5.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 11.11% 14.29% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile £378 £394 -
25th Percentile £600 £434 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £494 £975
Median % change year-on-year +31.65% -49.36% +129.41%
75th Percentile - £543 £1,088
90th Percentile £755 £572 £1,095
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £580
% change year-on-year - -5.17% -1.28%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

NIST job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

NIST
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 29 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Westminster - 2 £650 -
NIST
Central London

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 2 (100.00%) SABSA
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) CASP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SELinux