NIST 800 Contract Job Trends in Leeds

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring NIST 800 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.25% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £518 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £539 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £530 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

NIST 800 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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 154 59 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 19.52% 13.66% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 45 58
10th Percentile £356 £263 £227
25th Percentile £463 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £509
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.59% -1.74%
75th Percentile £569 £563 £600
90th Percentile £630 £733 £729
West Yorkshire median daily rate £515 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +14.44% -2.70% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £14.43 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £14.69 £31.54 -
Median hourly rate £15.81 £32.96 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.03% - -
75th Percentile £17.36 £34.38 -
90th Percentile £17.88 £34.43 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.81 £22.14 -
% change year-on-year -28.59% - -

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST 800 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

NIST 800 job vacancy trend in Leeds

NIST 800
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing NIST 800.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing NIST 800

NIST 800
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) GCIA
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid7