NIST Contracts in East London

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East London 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 31 20
Rank change year-on-year +15 -11 +8
Contract jobs citing NIST 4 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 3.92% 2.61% 6.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.39% 10.91% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 10
10th Percentile £527 £570 -
25th Percentile £574 £603 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £626 £750
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -16.53% +23.97%
75th Percentile £630 £636 -
90th Percentile - £776 -
London median daily rate £650 £650 £675
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +8.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East London

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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 23 55 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 22.55% 23.91% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 50 23
10th Percentile £427 £400 £280
25th Percentile £495 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £750
90th Percentile £675 £696 -
London median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.24
Median hourly rate - £11.95 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year - -46.85% -10.36%
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - £19.03 -
London median hourly rate £34.50 £24.50 £30.75
% change year-on-year +40.82% -20.33% -30.90%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in East London

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in East London.

Daily rate trend for NIST in East London

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Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in East London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in East London

NIST
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the East London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Tower Hamlets +8 4 £615 -1.91% 2
NIST
London

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) BCP
3 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (25.00%) SOAR
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) GRC
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) QA