NIST Contracts in Manchester

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 84 94
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 +22
Contract jobs citing NIST 6 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% 0.79% 1.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.38% 4.92% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 14
10th Percentile £638 £482 £404
25th Percentile £642 £590 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £663 £594
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% +11.58% -18.10%
75th Percentile £741 £753 £716
90th Percentile £763 £766 £1,395
North West median daily rate £675 £650 £550
% change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -24.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £39.60
North West median hourly rate - £35.95 £39.60
% change year-on-year - -9.22% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 137 244 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.79% 16.08% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 151 191
10th Percentile £360 £375 £320
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £594
90th Percentile £708 £713 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 5
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.84 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.11 £13.19 £13.50
Median hourly rate £22.63 £37.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.07% +65.03% +80.00%
75th Percentile £55.06 £68.78 £39.60
90th Percentile £76.25 £72.14 £63.84
North West median hourly rate £30.38 £12.84 £38.55
% change year-on-year +136.60% -66.69% +114.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps Architect
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Security Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) OWASP
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Security Management
4 1 (16.67%) Boundary Protection
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) RBAC
4 1 (16.67%) Records Management
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (33.33%) CCSP
1 2 (33.33%) CEH
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (33.33%) COBIT
4 1 (16.67%) GRC
4 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform