NIST 800 Contracts in London

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring NIST 800 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST 800 over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 374 454
Rank change year-on-year +45 +80 +108
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 19 19 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.95% 0.76% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 28
10th Percentile £450 £494 £571
25th Percentile £525 £550 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £775 £693
Median % change year-on-year -24.19% +11.91% -9.48%
75th Percentile £781 £875 £750
90th Percentile £883 - -
England median daily rate £593 £582 £650
% change year-on-year +1.80% -10.46% -13.91%

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 2,000 2,489 3,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.91% 13.98% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,318 1,766 2,531
10th Percentile £313 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 65 36
10th Percentile £19.44 £13.29 £20.25
25th Percentile £22.27 £18.13 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.75 £24.50 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +41.84% -20.33% -30.90%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.37 £56.00 £81.25
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.04 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.84% -44.91% +46.79%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing NIST 800 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for NIST 800 in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST 800 in London.

Daily rate trend for NIST 800 in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST 800 in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST 800 in London

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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 3 May 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
Central London +1 3 £550 -35.29% 2
South London - 1 - -
NIST 800
England

NIST 800
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 2 (10.53%) SMTP
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.26%) RTP
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Architect
1 9 (47.37%) Security Architect
2 6 (31.58%) Analyst
3 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 5 (26.32%) Senior
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Architect
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Security Architect
5 3 (15.79%) Risk Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Security Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Integration Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Security Manager
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security Architect
7 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Lead
7 1 (5.26%) Lead Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Security Project Manager
7 1 (5.26%) Security Risk Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Architect
7 1 (5.26%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Operational Technology
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.53%) Low-Code
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Blog
3 1 (5.26%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (57.89%) Risk Management
2 10 (52.63%) Security Architecture
3 7 (36.84%) Information Security
4 6 (31.58%) SABSA
5 5 (26.32%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 4 (21.05%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
6 4 (21.05%) Security Operations
6 4 (21.05%) SIEM
7 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
7 3 (15.79%) Cyber Assurance
7 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
7 3 (15.79%) Security Management
7 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (15.79%) Threat Detection
7 3 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
8 2 (10.53%) DevSecOps
8 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (10.53%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) CISSP
2 10 (52.63%) CISA
3 7 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (31.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 6 (31.58%) GIAC
5 5 (26.32%) CCSK
5 5 (26.32%) CISM
5 5 (26.32%) CRISC
5 5 (26.32%) SANS
6 3 (15.79%) Degree
7 2 (10.53%) CCSP
7 2 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
7 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
7 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
8 1 (5.26%) CCNA
8 1 (5.26%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (5.26%) GCIA
8 1 (5.26%) GCIH
8 1 (5.26%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (100.00%) NIST
2 11 (57.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (21.05%) GRC
4 3 (15.79%) GDPR
4 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (10.53%) HIPAA
5 2 (10.53%) NCSC
6 1 (5.26%) ISO 31000
6 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
6 1 (5.26%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (10.53%) Nagios
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Qualys
2 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.53%) Snow
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Zscaler