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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 173 216
Rank change year-on-year 0 +43 +2
Contract jobs citing NIST 296 196 198
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.59% 1.61% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.76% 9.97% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 133 158
10th Percentile £430 £458 £375
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £668
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.12% -3.78%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £775
90th Percentile £900 £835 £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 £75.00 £65.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% +5.23%

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 3,379 1,965 2,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.19% 16.19% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,260 1,301 1,711
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £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 £19.35 £20.63 £13.29
25th Percentile £23.25 £22.39 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +42.68% -7.89%
75th Percentile £48.21 £49.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +1.45% +43.75% -43.53%

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 6 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 6 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 +11 50 £625 -3.85% 32
East London -9 4 £450 -23.08% 2
South London -13 2 £744 +35.18% 2
West London -23 2 £488 +14.71% 5
North London -2 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 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.01%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) nginx
4 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 113 (38.18%) Azure
2 94 (31.76%) AWS
3 42 (14.19%) GCP
4 34 (11.49%) Entra ID
5 17 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (5.74%) Azure Sentinel
6 16 (5.41%) SaaS
7 15 (5.07%) GitHub
8 13 (4.39%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.39%) Serverless
9 11 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.04%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (3.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.70%) Datadog
13 7 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.09%) Network Security
2 16 (5.41%) Firewall
3 14 (4.73%) DNS
4 6 (2.03%) Kerberos
4 6 (2.03%) VPN
5 5 (1.69%) NGFW
6 4 (1.35%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.35%) WAN
7 3 (1.01%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (1.01%) DHCP
7 3 (1.01%) HTTP
7 3 (1.01%) Internet
7 3 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.01%) SSL
7 3 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.01%) X.509
8 2 (0.68%) IPsec
8 2 (0.68%) SSH
8 2 (0.68%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (1.35%) Big Data
3 4 (1.35%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.35%) DocumentDB
3 4 (1.35%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.35%) MySQL
3 4 (1.35%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.35%) Redis
4 3 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (1.01%) Star Schema
5 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.68%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.34%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.34%) Metadata
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (6.08%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.72%) JIRA
3 6 (2.03%) GitLab
4 5 (1.69%) Snyk
5 4 (1.35%) Git
6 3 (1.01%) JMeter
7 2 (0.68%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.34%) MLflow
8 1 (0.34%) Postman
8 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 102 (34.46%) Social Skills
2 96 (32.43%) Finance
3 49 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.45%) Documentation Skills
5 24 (8.11%) Banking
6 20 (6.76%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (5.74%) Legal
8 15 (5.07%) Financial Institution
9 12 (4.05%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.69%) Law
12 4 (1.35%) Retail
12 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.34%) Back Office
15 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.34%) Local Government
15 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 73 (24.66%) Architect
2 36 (12.16%) Analyst
3 32 (10.81%) Security Architect
4 27 (9.12%) Consultant
5 24 (8.11%) Security Engineer
6 22 (7.43%) CyberArk Architect
6 22 (7.43%) Senior
7 21 (7.09%) Project Manager
8 20 (6.76%) Security Consultant
9 19 (6.42%) Lead
10 18 (6.08%) Security Manager
11 15 (5.07%) Security Specialist
12 14 (4.73%) Business Analyst
13 12 (4.05%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (4.05%) Security Analyst
14 10 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (3.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 10 (3.38%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 10 (3.38%) Migration Manager
14 10 (3.38%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.42%) SAML
2 18 (6.08%) OpenID
3 16 (5.41%) LDAP
4 11 (3.72%) SailPoint
5 10 (3.38%) Kafka
6 8 (2.70%) OAuth
7 7 (2.36%) REST
8 6 (2.03%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.03%) RESTful
9 5 (1.69%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.35%) .NET
10 4 (1.35%) gRPC
10 4 (1.35%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.35%) JPA
10 4 (1.35%) JSON
10 4 (1.35%) Spring
10 4 (1.35%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.35%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) SPIFFE
12 2 (0.68%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.18%) Onboarding
2 38 (12.84%) Cloud Native
3 26 (8.78%) Security Posture
4 19 (6.42%) Management Information System
5 17 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (4.73%) Operational Technology
7 10 (3.38%) CMDB
8 7 (2.36%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.03%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.69%) SCADA
11 4 (1.35%) BYOD
11 4 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.35%) PKI
11 4 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.35%) Taxonomies
12 3 (1.01%) Mainframe
12 3 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.42%) Windows
2 16 (5.41%) Linux
3 8 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.01%) Unix
6 2 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (51.69%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (25.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 66 (22.30%) Risk Management
3 66 (22.30%) Security Architecture
4 64 (21.62%) CI/CD
5 60 (20.27%) Information Security
6 59 (19.93%) Cloud Security
7 55 (18.58%) DevOps
8 53 (17.91%) SIEM
9 50 (16.89%) AI
9 50 (16.89%) Incident Response
9 50 (16.89%) Threat Modelling
10 47 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (15.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (15.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 44 (14.86%) Vulnerability Management
12 43 (14.53%) Data Protection
13 41 (13.85%) Roadmaps
14 38 (12.84%) Agile
14 38 (12.84%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (11.82%) Python
2 26 (8.78%) PowerShell
3 17 (5.74%) SQL
4 15 (5.07%) Java
5 11 (3.72%) Bash
6 4 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.01%) Bicep
8 2 (0.68%) Go
9 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 87 (29.39%) CISSP
2 64 (21.62%) Security Cleared
3 51 (17.23%) SC Cleared
4 47 (15.88%) CISM
5 38 (12.84%) Degree
6 24 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (7.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 22 (7.43%) CRISC
9 21 (7.09%) CompTIA Security+
10 19 (6.42%) CISA
11 18 (6.08%) CEH
11 18 (6.08%) GIAC
12 17 (5.74%) PMI Certification
12 17 (5.74%) PMP
13 14 (4.73%) AWS Certification
14 13 (4.39%) CCSP
15 11 (3.72%) Azure Certification
15 11 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
16 9 (3.04%) Master's Degree
17 8 (2.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (63.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (20.27%) GDPR
3 42 (14.19%) GRC
4 41 (13.85%) NCSC
5 39 (13.18%) COBIT
6 35 (11.82%) PCI DSS
7 29 (9.80%) NIST 800
8 17 (5.74%) SOC 2
9 14 (4.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (4.39%) ITGC
11 12 (4.05%) QA
12 11 (3.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (2.36%) EU AI Act
14 6 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 6 (2.03%) SLA
15 5 (1.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 4 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (1.35%) ISO 22301
16 4 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 3 (1.01%) RMADS
System Software
1 26 (8.78%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.73%) Docker
3 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.68%) OpenSSH
3 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) Varnish
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.12%) Terraform
3 9 (3.04%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (2.70%) Ansible
5 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.68%) CASB
6 2 (0.68%) Grafana
6 2 (0.68%) Nessus
6 2 (0.68%) Nexpose
6 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.68%) Puppet
7 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.34%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.34%) SELinux
7 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 49 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 40 (13.51%) CyberArk
3 36 (12.16%) Splunk
4 20 (6.76%) ServiceNow
5 15 (5.07%) Tenable
6 13 (4.39%) Google
7 11 (3.72%) Qualys
8 10 (3.38%) Rapid7
9 8 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (2.36%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.69%) Cisco
11 5 (1.69%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.35%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.35%) VMware
13 3 (1.01%) Commvault
13 3 (1.01%) Forcepoint
13 3 (1.01%) ForgeRock
13 3 (1.01%) Okta
13 3 (1.01%) Oracle
13 3 (1.01%) Veracode