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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 166 208
Rank change year-on-year +4 +42 +16
Contract jobs citing NIST 313 197 199
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.64% 1.56% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.94% 9.51% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 136 157
10th Percentile £426 £453 £408
25th Percentile £500 £517 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.19% -0.92%
75th Percentile £738 £705 £775
90th Percentile £888 £825 £825
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -0.08% -4.00% -3.85%

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 3,502 2,071 2,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.31% 16.40% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,352 1,365 1,705
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £763 £800
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.90% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 30 62
10th Percentile £19.04 £21.13 £12.70
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.15 £17.81
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +43.81% -4.04%
75th Percentile £47.59 £50.31 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.05 £65.50 £57.13
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% +35.42% -39.26%

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 25 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 25 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 +13 50 £625 -2.50% 10
East London -4 4 £450 -23.08% 3
South London -18 2 £744 +35.18%
West London -29 2 £431 +1.47% 5
North London -1 1 £650 +48.57% 2
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 6 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.96%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 122 (38.98%) Azure
2 97 (30.99%) AWS
3 45 (14.38%) GCP
4 37 (11.82%) Entra ID
5 18 (5.75%) Azure Sentinel
5 18 (5.75%) GitHub
5 18 (5.75%) SaaS
6 15 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (3.83%) OpenShift
8 12 (3.83%) Serverless
9 11 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (2.56%) Datadog
13 7 (2.24%) OCI
13 7 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.92%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.99%) Network Security
2 16 (5.11%) Firewall
3 14 (4.47%) DNS
4 7 (2.24%) VPN
5 6 (1.92%) Kerberos
5 6 (1.92%) NGFW
6 5 (1.60%) X.509
7 4 (1.28%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.28%) WAN
8 3 (0.96%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (0.96%) DHCP
8 3 (0.96%) HTTP
8 3 (0.96%) Internet
8 3 (0.96%) IPsec
8 3 (0.96%) SSH
8 3 (0.96%) SSL
8 3 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (1.28%) Big Data
3 4 (1.28%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.28%) DocumentDB
3 4 (1.28%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.28%) MySQL
3 4 (1.28%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.28%) Redis
4 3 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.96%) Star Schema
5 2 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.64%) Data Hub
5 2 (0.64%) Power BI
6 1 (0.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (6.07%) Jenkins
2 12 (3.83%) JIRA
3 8 (2.56%) GitLab
3 8 (2.56%) Snyk
4 5 (1.60%) Git
5 4 (1.28%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.96%) JMeter
6 3 (0.96%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.64%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.32%) MLflow
8 1 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 104 (33.23%) Social Skills
2 100 (31.95%) Finance
3 47 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.31%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (7.35%) Banking
6 20 (6.39%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (5.11%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.79%) Legal
9 14 (4.47%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.60%) Law
11 5 (1.60%) Retail
12 4 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.64%) Local Government
13 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.32%) Back Office
14 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (24.28%) Architect
2 42 (13.42%) Analyst
3 33 (10.54%) Security Architect
4 30 (9.58%) Consultant
5 28 (8.95%) Security Engineer
6 24 (7.67%) Senior
7 21 (6.71%) CyberArk Architect
7 21 (6.71%) Lead
7 21 (6.71%) Security Consultant
8 18 (5.75%) Project Manager
8 18 (5.75%) Security Manager
9 16 (5.11%) Business Analyst
9 16 (5.11%) Security Analyst
10 14 (4.47%) Security Specialist
11 11 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (3.51%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 11 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (2.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 9 (2.88%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.07%) SAML
2 18 (5.75%) OpenID
3 16 (5.11%) LDAP
4 12 (3.83%) SailPoint
5 9 (2.88%) Kafka
5 9 (2.88%) OAuth
6 7 (2.24%) REST
7 6 (1.92%) OAuth2
7 6 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (1.92%) RESTful
8 5 (1.60%) JSON
9 4 (1.28%) .NET
9 4 (1.28%) gRPC
9 4 (1.28%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.28%) JPA
9 4 (1.28%) Spring
9 4 (1.28%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.28%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) SLSA
10 3 (0.96%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.78%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.18%) Onboarding
3 30 (9.58%) Security Posture
4 19 (6.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (5.43%) Management Information System
5 17 (5.43%) Operational Technology
6 10 (3.19%) CMDB
7 9 (2.88%) SCADA
8 8 (2.56%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.60%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.60%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.28%) BYOD
11 4 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.28%) PKI
11 4 (1.28%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.75%) Windows
2 15 (4.79%) Linux
3 8 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.28%) Unix
6 3 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.64%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.32%) Android
8 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.32%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (53.35%) Cybersecurity
2 77 (24.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 70 (22.36%) CI/CD
3 70 (22.36%) Security Architecture
4 65 (20.77%) Information Security
4 65 (20.77%) Risk Management
5 57 (18.21%) Cloud Security
6 56 (17.89%) DevOps
7 55 (17.57%) Threat Modelling
8 52 (16.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 50 (15.97%) AI
10 48 (15.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 48 (15.34%) SIEM
11 46 (14.70%) Incident Response
11 46 (14.70%) Roadmaps
12 45 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (13.42%) Vulnerability Management
14 41 (13.10%) Agile
14 41 (13.10%) Data Protection
15 40 (12.78%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (11.50%) Python
2 24 (7.67%) PowerShell
3 20 (6.39%) SQL
4 13 (4.15%) Java
5 9 (2.88%) Bash
6 3 (0.96%) Bicep
6 3 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.64%) Go
8 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.32%) Korn
8 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 86 (27.48%) CISSP
2 66 (21.09%) Security Cleared
3 53 (16.93%) SC Cleared
4 47 (15.02%) CISM
5 39 (12.46%) Degree
6 26 (8.31%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (7.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 24 (7.67%) CRISC
9 22 (7.03%) GIAC
10 21 (6.71%) CISA
11 20 (6.39%) CEH
11 20 (6.39%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (4.47%) Azure Certification
12 14 (4.47%) PMI Certification
12 14 (4.47%) PMP
13 13 (4.15%) AWS Certification
13 13 (4.15%) CCSP
14 12 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (2.88%) OSCP
16 8 (2.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (62.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (19.49%) GDPR
3 50 (15.97%) GRC
4 44 (14.06%) NCSC
5 40 (12.78%) COBIT
6 35 (11.18%) PCI DSS
7 29 (9.27%) NIST 800
8 21 (6.71%) SOC 2
9 14 (4.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (4.47%) QA
10 13 (4.15%) ITGC
11 11 (3.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (2.56%) EU AI Act
12 8 (2.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 6 (1.92%) SLA
14 4 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (1.28%) ISO 22301
14 4 (1.28%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (8.63%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.07%) Docker
3 3 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.64%) OpenSSH
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) Varnish
5 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (12.46%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.95%) Terraform
3 10 (3.19%) Ansible
3 10 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.64%) Grafana
5 2 (0.64%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.64%) Nessus
5 2 (0.64%) Nexpose
5 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.64%) Puppet
6 1 (0.32%) CASB
6 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.32%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.32%) SELinux
6 1 (0.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 55 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.14%) CyberArk
3 35 (11.18%) Splunk
4 22 (7.03%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.47%) Google
5 14 (4.47%) Tenable
6 11 (3.51%) Qualys
7 10 (3.19%) CrowdStrike
8 9 (2.88%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.88%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.92%) Cisco
10 5 (1.60%) VMware
10 5 (1.60%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.28%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.28%) Okta
11 4 (1.28%) Veracode
12 3 (0.96%) Commvault
12 3 (0.96%) Forcepoint
12 3 (0.96%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.96%) Workday