NIST Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 18 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 5.77% 2.00% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.27% 14.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.97% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median daily rate £550 £519 -
% change year-on-year +5.97% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 21.15% 14.00% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £530 £204 £439
25th Percentile £550 £322 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £653 £519 £513
Median % change year-on-year +25.72% +1.27% -6.82%
75th Percentile £666 £635 £559
90th Percentile - £705 £576
Suffolk median daily rate £653 £225 £575
% change year-on-year +190.00% -60.87% -3.52%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

NIST job vacancy trend in Ipswich

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing NIST

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Application Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Risk Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) CRISC
2 1 (33.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) GPG13
2 1 (33.33%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (33.33%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) Tenable