NIST Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 63 100
Rank change year-on-year -41 +37 +6
Contract jobs citing NIST 8 34 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.37% 2.69% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.21% 16.43% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 1
10th Percentile £488 £86 -
25th Percentile £501 £302 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +21.50% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £734 £519 -
90th Percentile £744 £535 -
England median daily rate £583 £585 £650
% change year-on-year -0.43% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 1
Median hourly rate - £90.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.13% +45.45%
England median hourly rate £75.00 £85.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year -11.76% +16.84% +13.41%

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 362 207 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.60% 16.40% 9.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 95 74
10th Percentile £355 £209 £252
25th Percentile £441 £331 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +21.95% -13.68%
75th Percentile £604 £575 £525
90th Percentile £675 £650 £557
England median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.45% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 41 26
10th Percentile £12.91 £13.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £16.59 £16.92 £14.90
Median hourly rate £27.96 £31.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +31.83% +34.57%
75th Percentile £67.60 £88.00 £40.59
90th Percentile £80.00 £91.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.07% +9.09% -35.29%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

NIST job vacancy trend in the East of England

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NIST

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the East of England

NIST
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NIST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NIST

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 3 August 2026. 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 -13 4 £738 +196.18% 5
Suffolk -7 2 £503 - 1
Norfolk -10 1 £500 -
Bedfordshire -20 1 £710 +42.00% 1
NIST
England

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Application Security Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Insider Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
2 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
2 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
2 3 (37.50%) SIEM
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) Application Security
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (25.00%) Secrets Management
3 2 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CCSP
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (25.00%) CISM
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CRISC
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (37.50%) GDPR
3 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (12.50%) ISA99
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) CSIRT
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
1 1 (12.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Forcepoint
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
1 1 (12.50%) VMware