NIST 800 Contract Job Trends in Croydon

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring NIST 800 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 3.70% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £525 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Croydon

NIST 800 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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 18 6 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 22.22% 6.00% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 19
10th Percentile £412 £365 £380
25th Percentile £460 £380 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £435 £528
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -17.61% -21.78%
75th Percentile £583 £498 £539
90th Percentile £641 £520 £573
South London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.21% -5.00% -

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST 800 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

NIST 800 job vacancy trend in Croydon

NIST 800
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing NIST 800.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing NIST 800

NIST 800
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CSOC
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Decision Tree
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CEH
1 3 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 3 (100.00%) OSCP
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SANS
3 1 (33.33%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC