NIST Contracts in England

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

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 205 205
Rank change year-on-year +24 0 +156
Contract jobs citing NIST 397 444 602
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.55% 1.20% 1.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.40% 8.86% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 303 422
10th Percentile £425 £475 £450
25th Percentile £513 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +0.78%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £747
90th Percentile £781 £800 £838
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £635
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.57% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 7
10th Percentile £29.73 £45.09 £51.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £62.50 £59.73
Median hourly rate £84.50 £67.50 £64.15
Median % change year-on-year +25.19% +5.23% -11.43%
75th Percentile £91.50 £78.00 £75.21
90th Percentile £98.30 £79.20 £78.46
UK median hourly rate £84.50 £67.50 £64.15
% change year-on-year +25.19% +5.23% -9.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,223 5,009 6,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.47% 13.49% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,733 3,139 4,347
10th Percentile £270 £300 £312
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £761
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 379 232
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £20.49 £13.18 £20.38
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.18 £41.77
Median % change year-on-year +33.37% -42.11% +54.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.33 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £37.75
% change year-on-year +26.05% -36.95% +37.27%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in England

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in England

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in England

NIST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for NIST in England

NIST
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NIST in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for NIST in England

NIST
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
London +53 211 £630 -3.08% 889
South East +53 54 £600 -7.69% 308
Midlands +8 33 £550 - 130
North of England -36 30 £599 -4.92% 247
East of England +48 27 £500 +25.00% 124
South West -28 26 £625 +4.17% 140
West Midlands +2 23 £575 +4.55% 79
North West -17 18 £663 +1.92% 141
Yorkshire -17 11 £599 -0.17% 80
East Midlands +6 10 £445 -38.41% 50
North East -1 1 £534 -7.13% 26
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.50%) Confluence
3 2 (0.50%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 140 (35.26%) Azure
2 103 (25.94%) AWS
3 59 (14.86%) GCP
4 27 (6.80%) Entra ID
5 24 (6.05%) Azure Sentinel
6 23 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (2.77%) Serverless
8 10 (2.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 10 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (2.52%) OCI
8 10 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (1.76%) AWS KMS
9 7 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.76%) GitHub
9 7 (1.76%) OneDrive
9 7 (1.76%) SaaS
10 6 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.51%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.26%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 53 (13.35%) Firewall
2 48 (12.09%) Network Security
3 19 (4.79%) VPN
4 10 (2.52%) DNS
5 8 (2.02%) SSL
6 7 (1.76%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.76%) WAN
7 5 (1.26%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.01%) Modbus
9 3 (0.76%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.76%) NAS
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.50%) HTTP
10 2 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.50%) LAN
10 2 (0.50%) SMTP
10 2 (0.50%) VLAN
10 2 (0.50%) X.509
11 1 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 7 (1.76%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (1.51%) GIS
2 6 (1.51%) Power BI
2 6 (1.51%) Tableau
3 3 (0.76%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.50%) Delta Lake
4 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.25%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (2.77%) JIRA
2 4 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.76%) GitLab
3 3 (0.76%) Snyk
4 2 (0.50%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.50%) Git
4 2 (0.50%) MLflow
5 1 (0.25%) JMeter
5 1 (0.25%) Postman
5 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 148 (37.28%) Social Skills
2 83 (20.91%) Finance
3 43 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.30%) Legal
6 17 (4.28%) Banking
7 13 (3.27%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.52%) Military
9 9 (2.27%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.02%) Marketing
11 7 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.26%) Electronics
12 5 (1.26%) Law
13 4 (1.01%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.76%) French Language
14 3 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.76%) Police
15 2 (0.50%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 118 (29.72%) Architect
2 99 (24.94%) Security Architect
3 57 (14.36%) Consultant
4 43 (10.83%) Security Engineer
5 41 (10.33%) Security Consultant
6 36 (9.07%) Lead
7 34 (8.56%) Analyst
8 31 (7.81%) Security Manager
9 24 (6.05%) Senior
10 15 (3.78%) Enterprise Architect
11 14 (3.53%) Project Manager
11 14 (3.53%) Security Analyst
12 13 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (3.02%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.02%) Security Project Manager
14 11 (2.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 11 (2.77%) Enterprise Security Architect
15 10 (2.52%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 10 (2.52%) Senior Architect
15 10 (2.52%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.53%) OAuth
1 14 (3.53%) OpenID
1 14 (3.53%) Oracle Fusion
1 14 (3.53%) SAML
2 13 (3.27%) SailPoint
3 12 (3.02%) LDAP
4 6 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.01%) FIDO
6 3 (0.76%) Node.js
6 3 (0.76%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.50%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.50%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.25%) Kafka
8 1 (0.25%) REST
8 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (16.62%) Security Posture
2 34 (8.56%) Management Information System
3 26 (6.55%) Operational Technology
4 16 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (3.78%) Cyber Threat
5 15 (3.78%) Security Operations Centre
6 14 (3.53%) PKI
7 12 (3.02%) Data Centre
7 12 (3.02%) SCADA
8 9 (2.27%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.02%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.02%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.76%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.76%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.51%) Cyber Defence
11 6 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.05%) Windows
2 19 (4.79%) Linux
3 6 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.50%) AIX
5 2 (0.50%) Solaris
6 1 (0.25%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) VMS
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (46.85%) Cybersecurity
2 110 (27.71%) Cloud Security
3 109 (27.46%) Risk Management
4 94 (23.68%) Information Security
5 86 (21.66%) Security Architecture
6 78 (19.65%) Incident Response
7 67 (16.88%) Identity Access Management
8 65 (16.37%) SIEM
9 60 (15.11%) Vulnerability Management
10 59 (14.86%) Security Operations
11 58 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (13.10%) Risk Assessment
13 51 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 49 (12.34%) Agile
15 43 (10.83%) Threat Modelling
16 42 (10.58%) DevOps
17 41 (10.33%) Zero Trust
18 39 (9.82%) Roadmaps
18 39 (9.82%) SABSA
19 38 (9.57%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 52 (13.10%) Python
2 36 (9.07%) PowerShell
3 14 (3.53%) Bash
4 10 (2.52%) Java
4 10 (2.52%) SQL
5 7 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.50%) Bicep
6 2 (0.50%) C++
6 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.25%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.25%) C
7 1 (0.25%) Perl
7 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 120 (30.23%) CISSP
2 91 (22.92%) Security Cleared
3 72 (18.14%) CISM
4 62 (15.62%) SC Cleared
5 60 (15.11%) Degree
6 31 (7.81%) CISA
7 29 (7.30%) DV Cleared
8 21 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (5.04%) CRISC
10 18 (4.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 18 (4.53%) CEH
11 17 (4.28%) GIAC
12 14 (3.53%) AWS Certification
13 13 (3.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 12 (3.02%) Azure Certification
14 12 (3.02%) CCSP
15 10 (2.52%) GCIH
15 10 (2.52%) SANS
16 9 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (62.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 106 (26.70%) GDPR
3 57 (14.36%) NIST 800
4 43 (10.83%) PCI DSS
5 39 (9.82%) GRC
6 30 (7.56%) NCSC
7 24 (6.05%) COBIT
7 24 (6.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 22 (5.54%) HIPAA
9 21 (5.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (4.28%) JSP 440
11 16 (4.03%) SOC 2
12 14 (3.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (2.52%) RMADS
13 10 (2.52%) SLA
14 9 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (1.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 6 (1.51%) QA
System Software
1 31 (7.81%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.76%) Firmware
3 5 (1.26%) Docker
3 5 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (5.29%) Terraform
2 13 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.27%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.76%) Ansible
3 7 (1.76%) Grafana
4 6 (1.51%) RSA Archer
5 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.26%) QRadar
6 4 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.01%) SELinux
7 3 (0.76%) CASB
7 3 (0.76%) Nessus
8 2 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.50%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.50%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.50%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) OPNET
9 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 69 (17.38%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.79%) CyberArk
2 19 (4.79%) Splunk
3 16 (4.03%) Oracle
4 14 (3.53%) Cisco
5 11 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.52%) Okta
7 9 (2.27%) Tenable
8 8 (2.02%) BeyondTrust
8 8 (2.02%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.02%) Rapid7
9 7 (1.76%) Google
9 7 (1.76%) Qualys
9 7 (1.76%) SAP
10 6 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.51%) ESRI
10 6 (1.51%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.51%) Zscaler
11 5 (1.26%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.26%) VMware