NIST Contract Job Trends in Coventry

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 4.05% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.07% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £528 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -2.22%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 41 12 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 23.70% 13.19% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 24
10th Percentile £233 £324 £368
25th Percentile £378 £375 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £481
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -16.88% +13.24%
75th Percentile £534 £472 £550
90th Percentile £627 £715 £575
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

NIST job vacancy trend in Coventry

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing NIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing NIST

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Control Tower
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) BGP
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) IPv4
1 3 (42.86%) IPv6
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
1 3 (42.86%) MPLS
1 3 (42.86%) OSPF
1 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
1 3 (42.86%) VXLAN
1 3 (42.86%) WAN
1 3 (42.86%) WLAN
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) EIGRP
2 2 (28.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (28.57%) VLAN
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) Wireless
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Network Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) SCADA
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Asset Management
3 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Network Design
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Security Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (42.86%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
4 2 (28.57%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Certification
2 3 (42.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (42.86%) CCIE
2 3 (42.86%) CCNP
2 3 (42.86%) CCSP
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) CISSP
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 2 (28.57%) CCIE Security
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) JNCIE
4 1 (14.29%) JNCIP
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) GDPR
1 6 (85.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) F5
1 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
1 3 (42.86%) Meraki
1 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
2 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Forcepoint
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
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