NIST 800 Contracts in the Midlands

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring NIST 800 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST 800 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 105 124 151
Rank change year-on-year +19 +27 +58
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 6 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.31% 0.33% 0.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.83% 2.34% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 15
10th Percentile £580 £529 £625
25th Percentile £588 £538 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £569 £680
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -16.32% -
75th Percentile £663 £666 -
90th Percentile £700 £693 £700
England median daily rate £593 £582 £650
% change year-on-year +1.80% -10.46% -13.91%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

NIST 800 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 328 384 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.14% 13.93% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 263 341
10th Percentile £196 £254 £250
25th Percentile £318 £354 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £539 £613 £588
90th Percentile £600 £756 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 44 13
10th Percentile - £11.34 £11.30
25th Percentile £14.70 £13.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.40% -28.75% +17.28%
75th Percentile £30.38 £27.92 £27.13
90th Percentile £44.20 £58.75 £51.02
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing NIST 800 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NIST 800 in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST 800 in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for NIST 800 in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST 800 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +8 3 £600 +5.45% 3
East Midlands - 3 - - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (16.67%) Modbus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Information Assurance Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Information Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Industry 4.0
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (50.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (33.33%) SCADA
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
3 3 (50.00%) Information Assurance
3 3 (50.00%) Information Security
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISA
1 3 (50.00%) CISM
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (33.33%) NCSC
4 1 (16.67%) GRC