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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 376 445
Rank change year-on-year +30 +69 +123
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 19 23 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.88% 0.95% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 27
10th Percentile £444 £488 £570
25th Percentile £450 £550 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -31.72% -3.33% -1.96%
75th Percentile £750 £875 -
90th Percentile £880 - £775
England median daily rate £533 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -11.25% -2.04% -18.87%

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 2,171 2,415 3,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.42% 13.71% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 1,687 2,529
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £758 £800 £799
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 60 35
10th Percentile £22.75 £12.50 £18.07
25th Percentile £25.15 £17.94 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £23.80 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.96% -8.46% -32.03%
75th Percentile £49.38 £43.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £55.50 £81.50
England median hourly rate £32.00 £24.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +32.34% -43.11% +63.46%

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

NIST 800
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

NIST 800
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST 800 in London over the 6 months to 4 July 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 4 July 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 - - 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%) GNU Octave
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) GCP
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
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Analyst
2 7 (36.84%) Architect
2 7 (36.84%) Security Architect
3 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 6 (31.58%) Senior
4 5 (26.32%) Risk Analyst
4 5 (26.32%) Security Analyst
5 4 (21.05%) Senior Architect
5 4 (21.05%) Senior Security Architect
6 3 (15.79%) Security Risk Analyst
7 2 (10.53%) Consultant
8 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 1 (5.26%) Chief Security Architect
8 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
8 1 (5.26%) Security Tester
8 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (5.26%) Senior Technology Consultant
8 1 (5.26%) Technology Consultant
8 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) PyTorch
1 2 (10.53%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Operational Technology
2 2 (10.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Blog
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.26%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) SCADA
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
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 4 (21.05%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (15.79%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 3 (15.79%) Security Operations
6 3 (15.79%) SIEM
6 3 (15.79%) SOAR
6 3 (15.79%) Threat Detection
7 2 (10.53%) Business Strategy
7 2 (10.53%) Cyber Assurance
7 2 (10.53%) Cyber Intelligence
7 2 (10.53%) Domain Models
7 2 (10.53%) EBIOS
7 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
7 2 (10.53%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) CISSP
2 8 (42.11%) CISA
3 7 (36.84%) GIAC
4 6 (31.58%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (31.58%) SANS
5 5 (26.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (26.32%) CCSK
5 5 (26.32%) CRISC
6 4 (21.05%) Degree
7 3 (15.79%) CISM
8 2 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
9 1 (5.26%) CEH
9 1 (5.26%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (5.26%) GCIA
9 1 (5.26%) GCIH
9 1 (5.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (5.26%) OSCP
9 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
9 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (100.00%) NIST
2 10 (52.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (21.05%) GRC
4 3 (15.79%) GDPR
5 2 (10.53%) HIPAA
5 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (5.26%) COBIT
6 1 (5.26%) ISO 31000
6 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (5.26%) NCSC
6 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
6 1 (5.26%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (5.26%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco
1 2 (10.53%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (10.53%) Google
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.26%) Rapid7
2 1 (5.26%) Splunk
2 1 (5.26%) Zscaler