NIST Contracts in Devon

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
DemandTrendContract jobs citing NIST 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 1.95% - 2.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.54% - 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £457
25th Percentile £513 - £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £510
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.40%
75th Percentile £538 - £713
90th Percentile - - £810
South West median daily rate £653 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +0.38% - +8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 26 25 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 16.88% 11.90% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 23
10th Percentile £403 £150 £131
25th Percentile £425 £158 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £453 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.71% +13.13% +142.42%
75th Percentile £534 £548 £500
90th Percentile £564 £606 £529
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +5.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £27.91 - £19.83
25th Percentile £28.32 £55.00 £22.56
Median hourly rate £29.00 £60.00 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.67% +116.22% -
75th Percentile £55.88 £65.00 £33.56
90th Percentile £72.00 - £36.68
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -5.45% +5.77% +20.37%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Devon.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Devon

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing NIST

NIST
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Devon region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Plymouth - 2 £525 -
Exeter - 1 - - 2
NIST
South West

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Encryption
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Culture Change
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk