NIST Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 4 14 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.42% 7.82% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.71% 37.84% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 0
10th Percentile £374 £517 -
25th Percentile £401 £528 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £556 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% - -
75th Percentile £633 £740 -
90th Percentile £639 £788 -
Cheshire median daily rate £566 £555 £575
% change year-on-year +2.03% -3.48% +12.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 70 37 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 24.82% 20.67% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 30 1
10th Percentile £358 £309 -
25th Percentile £375 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £406 £300
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% +35.42% +10.29%
75th Percentile £492 £565 -
90th Percentile £519 £695 -
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +33.33%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

NIST job vacancy trend in Knutsford

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing NIST

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Knutsford over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Knutsford

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISM
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CISA
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) GSEC
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Fluentd
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) Cribl.io
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) ArcSight