NIST Contracts in London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for NIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NIST over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 246 380
Rank change year-on-year +48 +134 -65
Contract jobs citing NIST 213 275 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.20% 1.02% 0.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.61% 7.78% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 193 153
10th Percentile £380 £489 £450
25th Percentile £513 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £778 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £838 £793
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £60.25 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £68.58
% change year-on-year +5.23% -6.47% +34.73%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

NIST is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,473 3,533 5,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.96% 13.05% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,750 2,550 3,500
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £650
90th Percentile £788 £788 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 36 83
10th Percentile £12.90 £20.25 £21.00
25th Percentile £17.94 £21.24 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% -30.90% +122.50%
75th Percentile £46.25 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £56.75 £81.25 £68.50
England median hourly rate £22.04 £40.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -45.25% +46.36% +30.95%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in London

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in London

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in London

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 27 April 2024. 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 +31 45 £625 -3.85% 11
East London -8 6 £626 -16.53% 2
West London +4 2 £438 -37.50% 2
South London - 2 £475 -
NIST
England

NIST
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.94%) IIS
2 2 (0.94%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.47%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 50 (23.47%) Azure
2 35 (16.43%) AWS
3 22 (10.33%) SaaS
4 20 (9.39%) IaaS
5 18 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (7.98%) GCP
7 15 (7.04%) PaaS
8 14 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (6.57%) Serverless
9 9 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (3.76%) GitHub
11 7 (3.29%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 2 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 2 (0.94%) AWS CloudTrail
14 2 (0.94%) AWS KMS
15 1 (0.47%) Mimecast
15 1 (0.47%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.68%) Firewall
2 19 (8.92%) Network Security
3 10 (4.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.82%) DNS
4 6 (2.82%) Wireless
5 3 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.94%) DMZ
6 2 (0.94%) SNMP
6 2 (0.94%) VPN
7 1 (0.47%) DHCP
7 1 (0.47%) HTTP
7 1 (0.47%) Internet
7 1 (0.47%) Modbus
7 1 (0.47%) SMTP
7 1 (0.47%) SSL
7 1 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (0.94%) Big Data
1 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.47%) CouchDB
2 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.47%) MySQL
2 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.47%) Redis
2 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (2.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.35%) JIRA
3 3 (1.41%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.94%) Git
4 2 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.94%) RStudio
5 1 (0.47%) Darcs
5 1 (0.47%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.47%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.47%) Travis CI
General
1 54 (25.35%) Finance
2 39 (18.31%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.39%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.98%) Banking
6 6 (2.82%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.82%) Local Government
7 5 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.41%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.41%) Retail
9 2 (0.94%) Advertising
9 2 (0.94%) International Banking
9 2 (0.94%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 83 (38.97%) Architect
2 64 (30.05%) Security Architect
3 36 (16.90%) Consultant
4 32 (15.02%) Analyst
5 29 (13.62%) Security Consultant
6 24 (11.27%) Senior
7 20 (9.39%) Technical Architect
8 19 (8.92%) Security Analyst
9 16 (7.51%) Senior Architect
9 16 (7.51%) Senior Security Architect
10 14 (6.57%) Lead
11 11 (5.16%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (5.16%) Security Engineer
12 10 (4.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 9 (4.23%) Cloud Security Architect
14 8 (3.76%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 8 (3.76%) Project Manager
14 8 (3.76%) Security Manager
14 8 (3.76%) Technical Consultant
14 8 (3.76%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.41%) CSS
1 3 (1.41%) HTML
2 2 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.94%) SailPoint
2 2 (0.94%) XML
3 1 (0.47%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.47%) EDI
3 1 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.47%) React
3 1 (0.47%) REST
3 1 (0.47%) RESTful
3 1 (0.47%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.86%) Mobile App
2 19 (8.92%) IoT
3 17 (7.98%) Security Posture
4 14 (6.57%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (6.10%) Management Information System
6 12 (5.63%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.82%) SCADA
7 6 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.88%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.94%) CMDB
11 2 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.94%) Industry 4.0
11 2 (0.94%) PKI
11 2 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.47%) BBC
12 1 (0.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.04%) Windows
2 13 (6.10%) Linux
3 4 (1.88%) Unix
4 3 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.94%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (53.05%) Cybersecurity
2 68 (31.92%) Information Security
3 57 (26.76%) Security Architecture
4 52 (24.41%) Cloud Security
5 47 (22.07%) Risk Management
6 40 (18.78%) SIEM
7 32 (15.02%) DevSecOps
8 29 (13.62%) Roadmaps
8 29 (13.62%) Use Case
9 28 (13.15%) Data Protection
10 27 (12.68%) SABSA
11 26 (12.21%) Incident Response
12 24 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (11.27%) Risk Assessment
13 23 (10.80%) Architectural Patterns
13 23 (10.80%) Identity Access Management
14 21 (9.86%) Application Security
14 21 (9.86%) Security Management
15 20 (9.39%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (9.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.10%) Python
2 8 (3.76%) C#
2 8 (3.76%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.29%) Go
4 3 (1.41%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.41%) SQL
5 2 (0.94%) Bash
5 2 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.94%) R
5 2 (0.94%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (0.47%) C
6 1 (0.47%) C++
6 1 (0.47%) Java
6 1 (0.47%) Ruby
6 1 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 61 (28.64%) CISSP
2 46 (21.60%) CISM
3 27 (12.68%) CISA
4 19 (8.92%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (8.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 18 (8.45%) Degree
6 16 (7.51%) CREST Certified
7 15 (7.04%) CCSK
7 15 (7.04%) CRISC
7 15 (7.04%) GIAC
8 14 (6.57%) Security Cleared
9 11 (5.16%) SC Cleared
10 9 (4.23%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (3.76%) SANS
12 7 (3.29%) CEH
12 7 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (3.29%) FFIEC
12 7 (3.29%) OSCP
13 6 (2.82%) CHECK Team Leader
13 6 (2.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (42.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (12.68%) GRC
2 27 (12.68%) NCSC
3 23 (10.80%) PCI DSS
4 18 (8.45%) GDPR
4 18 (8.45%) NIST 800
5 11 (5.16%) COBIT
6 8 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.76%) ISO 22301
6 8 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (2.82%) ISO 31000
8 5 (2.35%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.88%) ISO 9001
10 3 (1.41%) GPG13
10 3 (1.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.41%) ISA99
10 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.94%) QA
11 2 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.82%) Docker
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (10.33%) Terraform
2 7 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.82%) Ansible
4 5 (2.35%) Nessus
5 3 (1.41%) Kibana
5 3 (1.41%) logstash
6 2 (0.94%) CASB
6 2 (0.94%) Grafana
6 2 (0.94%) Packer
6 2 (0.94%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.94%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.47%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.47%) Puppet
7 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.69%) LogRhythm
3 8 (3.76%) Rapid7
4 5 (2.35%) Darktrace
4 5 (2.35%) Google
4 5 (2.35%) Qualys
4 5 (2.35%) Splunk
5 4 (1.88%) Cisco
6 3 (1.41%) Okta
6 3 (1.41%) Oracle
7 2 (0.94%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.94%) IBM
7 2 (0.94%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.94%) Varonis
8 1 (0.47%) Cadence
8 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.47%) Lotus
8 1 (0.47%) McAfee
8 1 (0.47%) SAP