NIST Contract Job Trends in Hatfield

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Hertfordshire > Hatfield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hatfield requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing NIST 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hatfield 5.63% 2.94% 4.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.90% 11.11% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £572 - -
25th Percentile £602 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% - -
75th Percentile - £525 -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £602 £550 -
% change year-on-year +9.36% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hatfield

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 Hatfield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 31 9 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hatfield 43.66% 26.47% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 3
10th Percentile £195 £174 £402
25th Percentile £479 £224 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £326 £420
Median % change year-on-year +61.84% -22.32% -30.00%
75th Percentile £541 £435 £540
90th Percentile £620 £489 £606
Hertfordshire median daily rate £528 £363 £523
% change year-on-year +45.66% -30.62% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 0
10th Percentile £16.18 £12.62 -
25th Percentile £16.57 £13.00 -
Median hourly rate £17.21 £15.34 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.16% - -
75th Percentile £17.96 £16.26 -
90th Percentile £18.79 £16.52 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £17.78 £15.73 £44.50
% change year-on-year +13.02% -64.65% +100.00%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Hatfield

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

NIST job vacancy trend in Hatfield

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Hatfield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hatfield citing NIST

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hatfield 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 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (75.00%) OSINT
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Detection
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Time Management
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) Information Assurance
3 2 (50.00%) Information Security
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CISM
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (75.00%) GDPR
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Computacenter
1 1 (25.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft