NIST 800 Contracts in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring NIST 800 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST 800 over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 99 118
Rank change year-on-year +15 +19 +22
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 13 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.03% 0.12% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.28% 1.35% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £86 - £455
25th Percentile £190 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £478
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -16.23% -12.79%
75th Percentile £519 - £493
90th Percentile £525 - £502
England median daily rate £525 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% -17.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £86.25 - -
25th Percentile £90.13 - -
Median hourly rate £91.00 £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% +45.45% -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £91.00 £80.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +13.75% +45.45% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 207 148 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.44% 9.10% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 74 157
10th Percentile £209 £252 £212
25th Percentile £331 £308 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -13.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £600
90th Percentile £650 £557 £693
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 26 20
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £12.90
25th Percentile £16.92 £14.90 £13.22
Median hourly rate £31.64 £24.00 £17.84
Median % change year-on-year +31.83% +34.57% -16.07%
75th Percentile £88.00 £40.59 £57.19
90th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £77.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% -35.29% +74.54%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST 800 in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST 800 in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for NIST 800 in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST 800 in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST 800 in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NIST 800 in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for NIST 800 in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire +4 13 £500 - 1
NIST 800
England

NIST 800
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SSL
1 2 (15.38%) X.509
General
1 11 (84.62%) Military
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Security Engineer
2 9 (69.23%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Key Management
2 9 (69.23%) GAP Analysis
2 9 (69.23%) Incident Management
2 9 (69.23%) Information Assurance
2 9 (69.23%) Patch Management
2 9 (69.23%) Security Management
3 8 (61.54%) MODAF
3 8 (61.54%) SABSA
4 5 (38.46%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
5 2 (15.38%) RBAC
5 2 (15.38%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) Degree
3 3 (23.08%) CISSP
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 2 (15.38%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (100.00%) NIST
2 11 (84.62%) JSP 440
2 11 (84.62%) NCSC
3 2 (15.38%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (15.38%) GDPR
3 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (15.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Firmware
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft