NIST Contracts in Hampshire

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 52 72 78
Rank change year-on-year +20 +6 +32
Contract jobs citing NIST 17 23 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.28% 1.43% 1.49%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.66% 11.68% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 20
10th Percentile £471 £567 £525
25th Percentile £513 £582 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £583 £670
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -12.99% +11.67%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £708
90th Percentile £707 £728 £783
South East median daily rate £600 £613 £700
% change year-on-year -2.04% -12.50% +14.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 116 197 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.55% 12.24% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 83 109
10th Percentile £200 £363 £241
25th Percentile £365 £406 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £515 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +11.35% -4.15%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £636 £688 £691
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 19 25
10th Percentile £21.00 £18.08 -
25th Percentile £22.83 £18.32 £18.25
Median hourly rate £24.66 £37.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.24% -21.05% +77.57%
75th Percentile £26.58 £54.38 £52.37
90th Percentile £41.10 £60.00 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +68.36% -11.29% +47.44%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Hampshire

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in Hampshire

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Hampshire

NIST
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Hampshire 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
Basingstoke - 6 £600 - 14
Farnborough +5 5 £461 -31.70% 3
Eastleigh - 3 £525 -
Portsmouth -1 1 £540 -7.30% 12
Havant - 1 £600 -
NIST
South East

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.88%) OCI
3 1 (5.88%) SonarCloud
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) Snyk
1 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Architect
1 3 (17.65%) Bid Writer
1 3 (17.65%) Consultant
1 3 (17.65%) Security Consultant
1 3 (17.65%) Technical Bid Writer
1 3 (17.65%) Technical Writer
2 2 (11.76%) Auditor
2 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Bid Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Compliance Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 1 (5.88%) IT Architect
3 1 (5.88%) IT Security Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Operations Director
3 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Security Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Security Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
3 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
3 5 (29.41%) Security Architecture
3 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (17.65%) Agile
5 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
5 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Information Security
5 3 (17.65%) OWASP
6 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.76%) Cryptography
6 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
6 2 (11.76%) Programme Management
6 2 (11.76%) Project Management
6 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) DV Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) CISM
3 3 (17.65%) CISSP
3 3 (17.65%) Degree
3 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) CISA
4 2 (11.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.88%) CEH
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (52.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (29.41%) NIST 800
3 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 3 (17.65%) NCSC
3 3 (17.65%) PCI DSS
4 2 (11.76%) GDPR
5 1 (5.88%) EU AI Act
5 1 (5.88%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (5.88%) ISO 22301
5 1 (5.88%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Splunk
1 1 (5.88%) Tenable
1 1 (5.88%) VMware