NIST Contract Job Trends in London

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 170 210
Rank change year-on-year +4 +40 +23
Contract jobs citing NIST 302 199 197
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.60% 1.62% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.81% 9.94% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 135 158
10th Percentile £430 £453 £375
25th Percentile £500 £519 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.19% -1.82%
75th Percentile £738 £723 £775
90th Percentile £900 £833 £825
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £73.60 -
England median hourly rate £70.35 £73.60 £67.50
% change year-on-year -4.42% +9.04% -1.34%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

NIST 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 3,426 2,003 2,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.18% 16.31% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 1,327 1,709
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £766 £800
England median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 26 65
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.63 £13.29
25th Percentile £22.91 £22.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +42.68% -7.00%
75th Percentile £41.68 £53.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.05 £74.20 £56.00
England median hourly rate £34.49 £33.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year +2.97% +38.52% -43.11%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

NIST job vacancy trend in London

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NIST

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in London

NIST
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NIST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NIST

NIST
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Central London +7 50 £625 -3.18% 26
East London -7 4 £450 -23.08% 3
South London -9 2 £744 +35.18% 1
West London -26 2 £488 +14.71% 7
North London 0 1 £650 +48.57% 1
NIST
England

NIST
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 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.99%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) nginx
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 118 (39.07%) Azure
2 97 (32.12%) AWS
3 43 (14.24%) GCP
4 35 (11.59%) Entra ID
5 17 (5.63%) Azure Sentinel
5 17 (5.63%) SaaS
6 16 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (5.30%) GitHub
7 12 (3.97%) OpenShift
7 12 (3.97%) Serverless
8 10 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.98%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (2.65%) Datadog
10 8 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.28%) Network Security
2 17 (5.63%) Firewall
3 14 (4.64%) DNS
4 7 (2.32%) VPN
5 6 (1.99%) Kerberos
5 6 (1.99%) NGFW
6 4 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.32%) WAN
7 3 (0.99%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.99%) DHCP
7 3 (0.99%) HTTP
7 3 (0.99%) Internet
7 3 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.99%) IPsec
7 3 (0.99%) SSH
7 3 (0.99%) SSL
7 3 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.99%) X.509
8 2 (0.66%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (1.32%) Big Data
3 4 (1.32%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.32%) DocumentDB
3 4 (1.32%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.32%) MySQL
3 4 (1.32%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.32%) Redis
4 3 (0.99%) Star Schema
5 2 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.66%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.33%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.33%) Metadata
6 1 (0.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (5.63%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.64%) JIRA
3 7 (2.32%) GitLab
4 5 (1.66%) Git
4 5 (1.66%) Snyk
5 3 (0.99%) JMeter
6 2 (0.66%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.33%) MLflow
7 1 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 99 (32.78%) Social Skills
2 98 (32.45%) Finance
3 49 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.28%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (7.62%) Banking
6 18 (5.96%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (5.96%) Legal
7 15 (4.97%) Financial Institution
8 13 (4.30%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.66%) Law
11 4 (1.32%) Retail
11 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.33%) Back Office
14 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.33%) Local Government
14 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (25.17%) Architect
2 36 (11.92%) Analyst
3 35 (11.59%) Security Architect
4 29 (9.60%) Consultant
5 23 (7.62%) Security Engineer
6 21 (6.95%) CyberArk Architect
6 21 (6.95%) Project Manager
6 21 (6.95%) Security Consultant
6 21 (6.95%) Senior
7 19 (6.29%) Lead
7 19 (6.29%) Security Manager
8 15 (4.97%) Security Specialist
9 14 (4.64%) Business Analyst
10 12 (3.97%) Cloud Architect
10 12 (3.97%) Security Analyst
11 11 (3.64%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 10 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (3.31%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 10 (3.31%) Migration Manager
12 10 (3.31%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.29%) SAML
2 18 (5.96%) OpenID
3 16 (5.30%) LDAP
4 12 (3.97%) SailPoint
5 9 (2.98%) Kafka
5 9 (2.98%) OAuth
6 7 (2.32%) REST
7 6 (1.99%) OAuth2
7 6 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (1.99%) RESTful
8 5 (1.66%) JSON
9 4 (1.32%) .NET
9 4 (1.32%) gRPC
9 4 (1.32%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.32%) JPA
9 4 (1.32%) Spring
9 4 (1.32%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.32%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (0.99%) SPIFFE
10 3 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.91%) Cloud Native
2 38 (12.58%) Onboarding
3 27 (8.94%) Security Posture
4 19 (6.29%) Management Information System
5 18 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (4.97%) Operational Technology
7 10 (3.31%) CMDB
8 7 (2.32%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.32%) SCADA
9 6 (1.99%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.66%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.32%) BYOD
11 4 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.32%) PKI
11 4 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.32%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.99%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.96%) Windows
2 15 (4.97%) Linux
3 8 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.32%) Unix
6 3 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.33%) Android
8 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.33%) CentOS
8 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (52.65%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (25.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 70 (23.18%) Security Architecture
4 66 (21.85%) Risk Management
5 64 (21.19%) CI/CD
6 63 (20.86%) Cloud Security
7 60 (19.87%) Information Security
8 55 (18.21%) DevOps
9 52 (17.22%) Threat Modelling
10 51 (16.89%) Incident Response
11 50 (16.56%) SIEM
12 49 (16.23%) AI
13 47 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 47 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 47 (15.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 45 (14.90%) Data Protection
15 44 (14.57%) Roadmaps
15 44 (14.57%) Vulnerability Management
16 42 (13.91%) Identity Access Management
17 39 (12.91%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 34 (11.26%) Python
2 25 (8.28%) PowerShell
3 17 (5.63%) SQL
4 14 (4.64%) Java
5 10 (3.31%) Bash
6 3 (0.99%) Bicep
6 3 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.66%) Go
8 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 86 (28.48%) CISSP
2 66 (21.85%) Security Cleared
3 53 (17.55%) SC Cleared
4 47 (15.56%) CISM
5 40 (13.25%) Degree
6 23 (7.62%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (7.62%) CRISC
7 22 (7.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 21 (6.95%) CompTIA Security+
9 19 (6.29%) CISA
10 18 (5.96%) CEH
10 18 (5.96%) GIAC
11 17 (5.63%) PMI Certification
11 17 (5.63%) PMP
12 14 (4.64%) AWS Certification
13 13 (4.30%) CCSP
14 12 (3.97%) Azure Certification
14 12 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (2.98%) Master's Degree
16 7 (2.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (63.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (20.53%) GDPR
3 44 (14.57%) GRC
4 42 (13.91%) NCSC
5 40 (13.25%) COBIT
6 36 (11.92%) PCI DSS
7 29 (9.60%) NIST 800
8 18 (5.96%) SOC 2
9 14 (4.64%) ITGC
10 13 (4.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (3.97%) QA
12 11 (3.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (2.32%) EU AI Act
14 6 (1.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 6 (1.99%) SLA
15 4 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (1.32%) ISO 22301
15 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 3 (0.99%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (8.61%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.30%) Docker
3 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.66%) OpenSSH
3 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.33%) Varnish
4 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (12.25%) Kubernetes
2 28 (9.27%) Terraform
3 10 (3.31%) Ansible
4 9 (2.98%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.66%) CASB
6 2 (0.66%) Grafana
6 2 (0.66%) Nessus
6 2 (0.66%) Nexpose
6 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.66%) Puppet
7 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.33%) SELinux
7 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 49 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 39 (12.91%) CyberArk
3 36 (11.92%) Splunk
4 22 (7.28%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.64%) Google
5 14 (4.64%) Tenable
6 10 (3.31%) Qualys
6 10 (3.31%) Rapid7
7 9 (2.98%) CrowdStrike
7 9 (2.98%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.66%) Cisco
8 5 (1.66%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.32%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.32%) Okta
9 4 (1.32%) VMware
10 3 (0.99%) Commvault
10 3 (0.99%) Forcepoint
10 3 (0.99%) ForgeRock
10 3 (0.99%) Veracode
10 3 (0.99%) Workday