NIST Contracts in Leeds

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 58 86
Rank change year-on-year +2 +28 +22
Contract jobs citing NIST 4 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.86% 0.63% 0.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.35% 5.62% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 10
10th Percentile £539 £520 £463
25th Percentile £578 £550 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +4.35% -36.11%
75th Percentile £698 £650 £588
90th Percentile £729 - £604
West Yorkshire median daily rate £640 £625 £575
% change year-on-year +2.40% +8.70% -36.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 63 89 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 13.55% 11.14% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 61 91
10th Percentile £256 £250 £313
25th Percentile £300 £400 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £541 £588 £575
90th Percentile £729 £688 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £521 £500
% change year-on-year -13.63% +4.20% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 £18.27 -
Median % change year-on-year +80.41% - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £13.16
% change year-on-year +21.18% +38.83% -29.63%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for NIST in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Security Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps Architect
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) IT Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (25.00%) IT Security Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) IT Security Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) OWASP
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) CISM
3 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (50.00%) CCSP
3 2 (50.00%) CEH
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (50.00%) OSCP
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) COBIT
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) GRC
2 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys