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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 369 394
Rank change year-on-year -4 +25 +175
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 12 17 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.086% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.48% 0.83% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 13
10th Percentile £480 £450 £665
25th Percentile £501 £490 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £775
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -29.03% +18.32%
75th Percentile £663 £646 £875
90th Percentile £694 £738 -
England median daily rate £520 £660 £667
% change year-on-year -21.24% -1.01% +2.62%

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 2,487 2,053 2,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.88% 13.07% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,662 1,263 2,104
10th Percentile £325 £316 £363
25th Percentile £413 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.00% -1.54%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £794 £795
England median daily rate £500 £507 £540
% change year-on-year -1.38% -6.11% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 25 45
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.40 £17.38
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +21.97%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.00 £49.08
90th Percentile £67.00 £91.78 £66.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.06 £39.96
% change year-on-year -6.43% -19.77% +53.69%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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
South London - 4 £525 -
Central London +7 1 £700 +10.24% 6
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 (41.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GNU Octave
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) BGP
1 1 (8.33%) DMZ
1 1 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (8.33%) VSAN
1 1 (8.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Risk Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Security Risk Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Information Assurance Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Security Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Technology Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (8.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) CSOC
1 2 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Fat Client
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) SCADA
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 6 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security
2 5 (41.67%) Information Security
2 5 (41.67%) OWASP
3 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (25.00%) AI
4 3 (25.00%) Application Security
4 3 (25.00%) EBIOS
4 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 2 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) CISSP
2 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) CEH
3 4 (33.33%) CISM
3 4 (33.33%) CREST Certified
3 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) CISA
4 3 (25.00%) OSCP
4 3 (25.00%) SANS
5 2 (16.67%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (16.67%) Degree
5 2 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (8.33%) CRISC
6 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (8.33%) GIAC
6 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (8.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) NIST
2 7 (58.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (25.00%) NCSC
4 1 (8.33%) COBIT
4 1 (8.33%) ISO 31000
4 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
1 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco
1 1 (8.33%) Dell
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) NVIDIA
1 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (8.33%) Rapid7
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk
1 1 (8.33%) Veeam
1 1 (8.33%) VMware