NIST Contract Job Trends in High Wycombe

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Buckinghamshire > High Wycombe

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in High Wycombe requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in High Wycombe 11.11% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £642 - £511
% change year-on-year - - -31.20%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
High Wycombe

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 High Wycombe.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in High Wycombe 22.22% 6.67% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £553 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £428 £488
% change year-on-year +22.81% -12.31% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.13 £26.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £15.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.72% -44.55% -
75th Percentile - £15.38 £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £34.36 £15.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +125.31% -44.55% -

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in High Wycombe

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

NIST job vacancy trend in High Wycombe

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in High Wycombe 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Military
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) SABSA
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SSCP