NIST 800 Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring NIST 800 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 68 69
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.76% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.35% 2.02% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 - £450
75th Percentile £464 - -
90th Percentile £505 - -
England median daily rate £525 £675 £684
% change year-on-year -22.26% -1.24% -8.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 138 99 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.58% 12.63% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 55 81
10th Percentile £294 £263 £263
25th Percentile £358 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +11.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £469 £600 £550
90th Percentile £538 £740 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.60% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 9
10th Percentile £15.12 - £10.77
25th Percentile £17.69 £12.75 £16.66
Median hourly rate £20.83 £13.50 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +54.30% -34.18% +4.30%
75th Percentile £25.11 £28.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £29.88 £47.35 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £30.56 £37.50
% change year-on-year +6.35% -18.51% +66.67%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing NIST 800 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NIST 800 in the East Midlands

NIST 800
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing NIST 800.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing NIST 800

NIST 800
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST 800 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Northamptonshire - 3 £402 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £465 - 3
NIST 800
England

NIST 800
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
1 3 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) FIDO
1 3 (50.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (50.00%) Backlog Management
3 3 (50.00%) Digital Identity
3 3 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 3 (50.00%) IT Audit
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Active Listening
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Fintech
4 2 (33.33%) Product Management
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISA
1 3 (50.00%) CISM
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
1 3 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (50.00%) COBIT
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) RSA Archer
1 3 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Alteryx
1 3 (50.00%) Rapid7
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft