NIST Contract Job Trends in Lancaster

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Lancashire > Lancaster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancaster requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancaster 28.57% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £629 - -
25th Percentile £634 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - -
75th Percentile £684 - -
90th Percentile £686 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £770 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Lancaster

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 Lancaster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancaster 28.57% 33.33% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £629 - -
25th Percentile £634 £588 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £600 £263
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% +128.57% -
75th Percentile £684 £613 £269
90th Percentile £686 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £677 £438 £593
% change year-on-year +54.66% -26.21% +7.80%

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancaster 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (50.00%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (50.00%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Service Security Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001