NIST 800 Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow citing NIST 800 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	100	77	70
Rank change year-on-year	-23	-7	-
Contract jobs citing NIST 800	3	1	2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow	0.25%	0.13%	0.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	1.29%	0.91%	1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted	2	0	2
10^th Percentile	-	-	£516
25^th Percentile	£413	-	£522
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	-	£538
75^th Percentile	£438	-	£549
90^th Percentile	-	-	£551
Scotland median daily rate	£425	£445	£550
% change year-on-year	-4.49%	-19.09%	-

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Glasgow

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 citing quality assurance or compliance skills in Glasgow.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing quality assurance or compliance skills	232	110	122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow	19.27%	14.61%	17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted	141	74	90
10^th Percentile	£250	£277	£250
25^th Percentile	£322	£401	£343
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	£450	£435
Median % change year-on-year	-5.56%	+3.45%	-8.42%
75^th Percentile	£531	£537	£489
90^th Percentile	£681	£575	£588
Scotland median daily rate	£450	£450	£440
% change year-on-year	-	+2.27%	-3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted	12	4	2
10^th Percentile	-	£14.28	£21.05
25^th Percentile	£13.25	£14.80	£24.89
Median hourly rate	£14.07	£15.55	£31.52
Median % change year-on-year	-9.47%	-50.68%	+139.51%
75^th Percentile	£15.81	£27.63	£37.91
90^th Percentile	£19.04	£48.55	£41.59
Scotland median hourly rate	£14.65	£35.00	£14.98
% change year-on-year	-58.16%	+133.64%	-75.03%

NIST 800 Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST 800 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

NIST 800 Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing NIST 800.

NIST 800 Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing NIST 800 also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region citing NIST 800.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	NIST	100.0%	3
2	Active Directory	66.7%	2
2	Firmware	66.7%	2
2	Infrastructure Engineering	66.7%	2
2	LogRhythm	66.7%	2
2	NCSC	66.7%	2
2	PowerCLI	66.7%	2
2	Rubrik	66.7%	2
2	Security Monitoring	66.7%	2
2	SIEM	66.7%	2
2	SolarWinds	66.7%	2
2	Validation	66.7%	2
2	VMware	66.7%	2
2	VMware Infrastructure	66.7%	2
2	VSAN	66.7%	2
2	vSphere	66.7%	2
2	Windows	66.7%	2
2	Windows Server	66.7%	2
19	Atlassian	33.3%	1
19	CISM	33.3%	1
19	CISSP	33.3%	1
19	Confluence	33.3%	1
19	CRISC	33.3%	1
19	Cyber Intelligence	33.3%	1
19	Cyber Threat Intelligence	33.3%	1
19	Cybersecurity	33.3%	1
19	ISO 31000	33.3%	1
19	ISO/IEC 27001	33.3%	1
19	JIRA	33.3%	1
19	Microsoft	33.3%	1

NIST 800 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Quality Assurance & Compliance

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	NIST	100.0%	3
2	NCSC	66.7%	2
3	ISO 31000	33.3%	1
3	ISO/IEC 27001	33.3%	1