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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 365 409
Rank change year-on-year +8 +44 +149
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 10 17 27
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.075% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.42% 0.79% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 16
10th Percentile £456 £400 £597
25th Percentile £488 £470 £706
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £750
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -30.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £619 £616 £809
90th Percentile £690 £738 £875
England median daily rate £520 £661 £667
% change year-on-year -21.27% -0.97% -6.39%

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 2,392 2,162 2,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.88% 13.45% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,593 1,343 2,179
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +0.89%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £754 £800 £798
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 37 37
10th Percentile £22.75 £18.13 £17.64
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £21.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £33.07 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% +1.75% +47.03%
75th Percentile £44.75 £51.75 £45.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.53 £62.85
England median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +52.41%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 - 1 £513 -
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 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GNU Octave
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) BGP
1 1 (10.00%) DMZ
1 1 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (10.00%) VSAN
1 1 (10.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Security Risk Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Technology Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (20.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
1 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) SCADA
1 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Information Security
1 5 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) AI
3 3 (30.00%) Application Security
3 3 (30.00%) EBIOS
3 3 (30.00%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (20.00%) OWASP
4 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) SABSA
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (10.00%) SOAR
5 1 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) CISSP
2 4 (40.00%) CISA
2 4 (40.00%) SANS
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (30.00%) CISM
3 3 (30.00%) CRISC
3 3 (30.00%) GIAC
4 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (20.00%) CCSK
4 2 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) CCNP
5 1 (10.00%) CEH
5 1 (10.00%) CREST Certified
5 1 (10.00%) Degree
5 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) OSCP
5 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) NIST
2 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (10.00%) COBIT
3 1 (10.00%) ISO 31000
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
1 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco
1 1 (10.00%) Dell
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) NVIDIA
1 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (10.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk
1 1 (10.00%) Veeam
1 1 (10.00%) VMware