NIST Contracts in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 193 237
Rank change year-on-year +21 +44 +134
Contract jobs citing NIST 198 215 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.60% 1.23% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.01% 8.69% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 168 207
10th Percentile £465 £375 £485
25th Percentile £525 £500 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £781
90th Percentile £836 £825 £850
England median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £71.68 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £83.20 - £80.00
75th Percentile £89.10 - -
90th Percentile £92.64 - -
England median hourly rate £78.40 £67.50 £64.15
% change year-on-year +16.15% +5.23% -9.76%

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 1,978 2,473 3,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.96% 14.15% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 1,745 2,481
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £798
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 62 37
10th Percentile £19.81 £12.70 £20.55
25th Percentile £22.39 £17.85 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £24.18 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.68% -30.91% -21.35%
75th Percentile £62.50 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.26 £57.13 £81.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.42 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.11% -40.21% +28.78%

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 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in London

NIST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NIST in London.

Hourly rate trend for NIST in London

NIST
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NIST in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for NIST in London

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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 20 May 2025. 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 -12 28 £650 +4.00% 26
East London +21 8 £585 -6.70% 6
South London +9 5 £550 +15.79% 2
West London +13 3 - - 6
North London - 2 £438 -
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 4 (2.02%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.02%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.52%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 77 (38.89%) Azure
2 48 (24.24%) AWS
3 31 (15.66%) GCP
4 12 (6.06%) Entra ID
5 11 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (3.54%) Serverless
8 6 (3.03%) OCI
9 5 (2.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.02%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.52%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.52%) SaaS
12 2 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.01%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (16.16%) Network Security
2 29 (14.65%) Firewall
3 12 (6.06%) VPN
4 6 (3.03%) DNS
5 4 (2.02%) SD-WAN
5 4 (2.02%) WAN
6 3 (1.52%) SSL
6 3 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.01%) HTTP
7 2 (1.01%) SMTP
8 1 (0.51%) Broadband
8 1 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.51%) MPLS
8 1 (0.51%) NAS
8 1 (0.51%) SAN
8 1 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.51%) VLAN
8 1 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.02%) GIS
2 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.02%) JIRA
2 3 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.01%) GitLab
4 1 (0.51%) JMeter
4 1 (0.51%) Postman
4 1 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 67 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 55 (27.78%) Finance
3 23 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.60%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.09%) Legal
6 10 (5.05%) Banking
6 10 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.03%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.02%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.02%) Law
9 3 (1.52%) Marketing
10 2 (1.01%) French Language
10 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.01%) Police
10 2 (1.01%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.51%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (34.85%) Architect
2 64 (32.32%) Security Architect
3 24 (12.12%) Consultant
4 22 (11.11%) Analyst
5 17 (8.59%) Security Engineer
6 16 (8.08%) Security Consultant
6 16 (8.08%) Senior
7 14 (7.07%) Security Manager
8 13 (6.57%) Lead
9 12 (6.06%) Security Analyst
10 11 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 10 (5.05%) Senior Architect
11 10 (5.05%) Senior Security Architect
12 9 (4.55%) Business Analyst
12 9 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
12 9 (4.55%) Enterprise Security Architect
13 6 (3.03%) IT Manager
13 6 (3.03%) Project Manager
14 5 (2.53%) Operations Manager
14 5 (2.53%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.05%) OAuth
1 10 (5.05%) OpenID
1 10 (5.05%) SAML
2 5 (2.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (2.53%) SailPoint
3 3 (1.52%) LDAP
4 2 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.01%) Node.js
5 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.51%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.51%) REST
5 1 (0.51%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.19%) Security Posture
2 24 (12.12%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.05%) Operational Technology
4 8 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.54%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (3.03%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.53%) PKI
8 4 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.02%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.52%) Insider Threat
9 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.52%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.01%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.05%) Linux
1 10 (5.05%) Windows
2 4 (2.02%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.01%) AIX
3 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.01%) Solaris
4 1 (0.51%) CentOS
4 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.51%) Unix
4 1 (0.51%) VMS
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (46.97%) Cybersecurity
2 67 (33.84%) Risk Management
3 61 (30.81%) Cloud Security
4 57 (28.79%) Security Architecture
5 50 (25.25%) Incident Response
6 46 (23.23%) Information Security
7 39 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (19.19%) Identity Access Management
9 36 (18.18%) SIEM
10 35 (17.68%) Risk Assessment
11 30 (15.15%) Vulnerability Management
12 28 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (13.64%) SABSA
14 25 (12.63%) Agile
15 23 (11.62%) Security Operations
16 22 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
17 21 (10.61%) Computer Science
17 21 (10.61%) DevSecOps
18 20 (10.10%) DevOps
18 20 (10.10%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.18%) Python
2 18 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 11 (5.56%) Bash
4 7 (3.54%) Java
5 4 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.52%) SQL
7 1 (0.51%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.51%) C
7 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (34.85%) CISSP
2 39 (19.70%) CISM
3 38 (19.19%) Security Cleared
4 34 (17.17%) Degree
5 31 (15.66%) SC Cleared
6 24 (12.12%) CISA
7 19 (9.60%) CRISC
8 16 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (7.58%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (7.07%) CompTIA Security+
11 13 (6.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (6.06%) CEH
13 10 (5.05%) CCSP
14 9 (4.55%) AWS Certification
15 8 (4.04%) Azure Certification
15 8 (4.04%) GCIH
15 8 (4.04%) GIAC
16 7 (3.54%) DV Cleared
17 6 (3.03%) OCP
17 6 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (65.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (32.83%) GDPR
3 25 (12.63%) GRC
4 24 (12.12%) PCI DSS
5 18 (9.09%) HIPAA
6 16 (8.08%) NIST 800
7 15 (7.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (7.07%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 12 (6.06%) SOC 2
10 8 (4.04%) COBIT
10 8 (4.04%) SLA
11 7 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (2.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (2.02%) COSO
12 4 (2.02%) EU AI Act
12 4 (2.02%) NCSC
13 3 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 12 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.01%) Docker
3 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.01%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (5.56%) Terraform
2 5 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.52%) Ansible
4 3 (1.52%) Grafana
5 2 (1.01%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.01%) Puppet
6 1 (0.51%) CASB
6 1 (0.51%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.51%) Graylog
6 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.51%) QRadar
6 1 (0.51%) SELinux
6 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.07%) CyberArk
3 8 (4.04%) BeyondTrust
3 8 (4.04%) Okta
4 7 (3.54%) Cisco
4 7 (3.54%) Oracle
5 6 (3.03%) VMware
6 5 (2.53%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.53%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.53%) Splunk
6 5 (2.53%) Tenable
7 4 (2.02%) AlgoSec
7 4 (2.02%) ESRI
7 4 (2.02%) Qualys
7 4 (2.02%) Tufin
8 3 (1.52%) Google
8 3 (1.52%) Ping Identity
9 2 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.01%) Thycotic
9 2 (1.01%) Zscaler