NIST Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 25 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 -14 +25
Contract jobs citing NIST 1 2 16
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 0.73% 1.69% 11.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.09% 50.00% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 15
10th Percentile - £471 -
25th Percentile £525 £486 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £524 £667
Median % change year-on-year +5.06% -21.51% +21.27%
75th Percentile £575 £561 -
90th Percentile - £577 -
Hampshire median daily rate £540 £650 £667
% change year-on-year -16.92% -2.55% -4.71%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11 4 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 8.03% 3.39% 35.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 23
10th Percentile £357 £473 £514
25th Percentile £453 £490 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £538 £667
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% -19.42% +21.27%
75th Percentile £575 £597 -
90th Percentile £587 £615 -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £15.65
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.06%
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £58.25
Hampshire median hourly rate £41.33 £28.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +47.59% -49.09% +69.02%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

NIST job vacancy trend in Farnborough

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing NIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing NIST

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (100.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS