NIST Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for NIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NIST over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 111 165
Rank change year-on-year +27 +54 -27
Contract jobs citing NIST 46 54 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.11% 1.52% 0.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.27% 11.84% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 38 16
10th Percentile £340 £484 -
25th Percentile £523 £563 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £663 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +15.22% +1.32%
75th Percentile £775 £788 £650
90th Percentile £875 £850 £725
Central London median daily rate £625 £663 £600
% change year-on-year -5.66% +10.42% +4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

NIST is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 375 456 661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.19% 12.86% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 333 441
10th Percentile £363 £400 £356
25th Percentile £463 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +8.17%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £650
90th Percentile £750 £838 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +6.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £16.78 - £19.13
25th Percentile £17.96 - £23.06
Median hourly rate £20.61 - £43.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +200.00%
75th Percentile £22.65 - £61.94
90th Percentile £23.46 - £62.28
Central London median hourly rate £23.40 £25.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -6.40% -39.76% +186.21%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for NIST in the City of London

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 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) IIS
1 1 (2.17%) Jupyter
1 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.87%) AWS
4 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 3 (6.52%) GitHub
6 2 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Firewall
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) DHCP
3 1 (2.17%) DMZ
3 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (2.17%) Big Data
1 1 (2.17%) CouchDB
1 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.17%) MySQL
1 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.17%) Redis
1 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) CircleCI
1 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Darcs
2 1 (2.17%) Git
2 1 (2.17%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.17%) Mercurial
2 1 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.17%) RStudio
2 1 (2.17%) Travis CI
General
1 23 (50.00%) Finance
2 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Local Government
3 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.35%) Advertising
5 2 (4.35%) International Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Consultant
2 10 (21.74%) Security Consultant
3 7 (15.22%) Analyst
3 7 (15.22%) Architect
4 6 (13.04%) Security Analyst
5 5 (10.87%) Information Security Consultant
5 5 (10.87%) Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Security Architect
6 4 (8.70%) Security Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Information Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Information Security Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) IT Security Specialist
7 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Security Specialist
7 3 (6.52%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 2 (4.35%) IT Security Project Manager
8 2 (4.35%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.17%) CSS
1 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.17%) HTML
1 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.17%) React
1 1 (2.17%) REST
1 1 (2.17%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 5 (10.87%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.17%) CBDC
4 1 (2.17%) Digital Currency
4 1 (2.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
1 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
1 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (65.22%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (45.65%) Information Security
3 15 (32.61%) Risk Management
4 11 (23.91%) Due Diligence
5 10 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
5 10 (21.74%) Performance Management
5 10 (21.74%) Validation
6 9 (19.57%) Risk Assessment
6 9 (19.57%) Security Architecture
7 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (13.04%) Business Strategy
8 6 (13.04%) Cyber Resilience
8 6 (13.04%) Data Protection
9 5 (10.87%) Business Continuity
9 5 (10.87%) Cloud Security
9 5 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (10.87%) Information Security Governance
9 5 (10.87%) OWASP
10 4 (8.70%) Agile
10 4 (8.70%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.17%) C
1 1 (2.17%) C#
1 1 (2.17%) C++
1 1 (2.17%) Go
1 1 (2.17%) Java
1 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
1 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.17%) Python
1 1 (2.17%) R
1 1 (2.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) CISSP
2 10 (21.74%) CISM
3 5 (10.87%) CRISC
3 5 (10.87%) Degree
4 4 (8.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.52%) CCSK
5 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) CISA
6 2 (4.35%) FFIEC
7 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (67.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (17.39%) PCI DSS
3 5 (10.87%) GRC
4 4 (8.70%) NCSC
4 4 (8.70%) NIST 800
5 3 (6.52%) ISO 31000
6 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (4.35%) GDPR
6 2 (4.35%) ISO 22301
6 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (2.17%) ISAE 3402
7 1 (2.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Terraform
2 2 (4.35%) Ansible
2 2 (4.35%) Kibana
2 2 (4.35%) logstash
3 1 (2.17%) Grafana
3 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.17%) Packer
3 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.70%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.17%) Citrix
4 1 (2.17%) IBM
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) VMware