NIST 800 Contract Job Trends in London

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring NIST 800 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 337 372
Rank change year-on-year -36 +35 +129
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 18 19 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.60% 0.98% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 13
10th Percentile £510 £450 £565
25th Percentile £513 £466 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -31.25% +20.75%
75th Percentile £688 £637 £875
90th Percentile £700 £765 -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £635
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.51% -2.31%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,016 1,942 2,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.80% 14.88% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,014 1,262 1,775
10th Percentile £350 £310 £363
25th Percentile £420 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £797 £780
England median daily rate £510 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 27 61
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.56 £23.23 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +33.38% -30.49%
75th Percentile £56.38 £78.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.69 £93.75 £57.50
England median hourly rate £26.44 £32.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.02% +29.00% -33.33%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

NIST 800 job vacancy trend in London

NIST 800
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

NIST 800
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST 800 in London over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NIST 800 in London

NIST 800
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST 800 within the London region over the 6 months to 9 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -11 5 £650 +18.18% 2
South London - 5 £525 -
NIST 800
England

NIST 800
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
2 2 (11.11%) OCI
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) BGP
1 2 (11.11%) DMZ
1 2 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) VSAN
1 2 (11.11%) VXLAN
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.56%) Metadata
2 1 (5.56%) Redis
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Security Specialist
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Security Specialist
2 3 (16.67%) Tester
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) CyberArk Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Information Assurance Leader
3 2 (11.11%) Penetration Tester
3 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
3 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Security Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Security Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.11%) CSOC
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Fat Client
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
1 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
1 7 (38.89%) Penetration Testing
1 7 (38.89%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 6 (33.33%) Information Security
2 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (27.78%) AI
3 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
3 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (27.78%) OWASP
3 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (22.22%) LLM
4 4 (22.22%) Risk Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Security Testing
5 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 3 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) CISSP
2 6 (33.33%) CEH
2 6 (33.33%) CISM
2 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) CISA
3 5 (27.78%) CREST Certified
3 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) OSCP
5 3 (16.67%) CRISC
5 3 (16.67%) Degree
5 3 (16.67%) SANS
6 2 (11.11%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (11.11%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
6 2 (11.11%) SSCP
7 1 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (100.00%) NIST
2 12 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (27.78%) PCI DSS
4 4 (22.22%) NCSC
4 4 (22.22%) SOC 2
5 3 (16.67%) GRC
6 1 (5.56%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
1 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) VxRail
3 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
1 2 (11.11%) Dell
1 2 (11.11%) NVIDIA
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
1 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
1 2 (11.11%) Splunk
1 2 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Veeam