NIST Contracts in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 107 116
Rank change year-on-year +33 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing NIST 8 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.85% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.52% 3.11% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £488 £475 £413
25th Percentile £508 £587 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £662 £528
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +25.50% -15.60%
75th Percentile £525 £731 £604
90th Percentile - £833 £669
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +52.38% -
75th Percentile £92.50 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £78.40 £67.50 £64.15
% change year-on-year +16.15% +5.23% -6.47%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 145 161 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.46% 8.43% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 92 187
10th Percentile £310 £251 £185
25th Percentile £431 £363 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -8.89% +5.14%
75th Percentile £659 £538 £600
90th Percentile £689 £600 £729
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 30 25
10th Percentile £17.63 £14.16 £12.27
25th Percentile £22.65 £14.43 £13.29
Median hourly rate £33.32 £15.79 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.02% -9.77% -36.36%
75th Percentile £73.44 £25.00 £44.53
90th Percentile £86.70 £37.90 £69.50
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the East of England

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in the East of England

NIST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for NIST in the East of England

NIST
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 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hertfordshire +30 4 £500 -36.51% 16
Bedfordshire +4 3 £525 - 5
Suffolk - 1 £519 - 3
NIST
England

NIST
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 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
1 2 (25.00%) X.509
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (25.00%) Military
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Auditor
2 2 (25.00%) IT Auditor
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Auditor
2 2 (25.00%) Senior IT Auditor
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IAM Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Information Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Microsoft Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
1 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (37.50%) Key Management
1 3 (37.50%) Project Management
1 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Information Assurance
2 2 (25.00%) IT Audit
2 2 (25.00%) RBAC
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Line Management
3 1 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
3 1 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) CISM
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (62.50%) NIST 800
3 4 (50.00%) GDPR
4 2 (25.00%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (12.50%) JSP 440
5 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow