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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 354 366
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 +148
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 11 13 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.077% 0.091% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.42% 0.66% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 10
10th Percentile £512 £482 £640
25th Percentile £513 £513 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £775
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -29.03% +14.81%
75th Percentile £616 £635 £875
90th Percentile £689 £641 -
England median daily rate £525 £628 £667
% change year-on-year -16.33% -5.92% -1.91%

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 2,610 1,965 2,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.21% 13.78% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,747 1,192 1,821
10th Percentile £348 £300 £363
25th Percentile £416 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% +3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £546
% change year-on-year - -8.47% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 30 48
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £18.75
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.65 £24.79
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +22.81%
75th Percentile £38.75 £78.40 £52.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £95.25 £64.65
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £33.00
% change year-on-year -16.75% -8.45% +36.08%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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
South London - 5 £525 -
Central London -2 3 £525 -4.55% 1
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 6 (54.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) OCI
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) BGP
1 1 (9.09%) DMZ
1 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (9.09%) VSAN
1 1 (9.09%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) Redis
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Tester
2 2 (18.18%) CyberArk Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Information Assurance Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Security Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) CSOC
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Fat Client
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
1 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 6 (54.55%) OWASP
1 6 (54.55%) Penetration Testing
1 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 6 (54.55%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (45.45%) Cloud Security
3 4 (36.36%) Application Security
3 4 (36.36%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (36.36%) Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (27.27%) Decision Tree
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 3 (27.27%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Information Security
4 3 (27.27%) SDLC
4 3 (27.27%) SIEM
4 3 (27.27%) Static Application Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) CEH
2 5 (45.45%) CREST Certified
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) CISSP
3 4 (36.36%) OSCP
4 3 (27.27%) CISM
4 3 (27.27%) SANS
5 2 (18.18%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (18.18%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (18.18%) CISA
6 1 (9.09%) CCNP
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (9.09%) CRISC
6 1 (9.09%) Degree
6 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
6 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
6 1 (9.09%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) NIST
2 9 (81.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (27.27%) NCSC
4 1 (9.09%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
1 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) CyberArk
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Dell
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) NVIDIA
2 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Veeam
2 1 (9.09%) VMware