NIST Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for NIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NIST over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 150 198
Rank change year-on-year +38 +48 -30
Contract jobs citing NIST 68 68 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.42% 1.16% 0.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.20% 8.35% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 49 40
10th Percentile £550 £413 £537
25th Percentile £560 £500 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -17.86% +30.23%
75th Percentile £670 £638 £763
90th Percentile £768 £780 -
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.48 - -
Median hourly rate £35.95 £39.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% - -
75th Percentile £38.43 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.25 £64.15 £68.58
% change year-on-year +3.28% -6.47% +34.73%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

NIST is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 739 814 939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.43% 13.91% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 494 669
10th Percentile £320 £288 £185
25th Percentile £413 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £684 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 43 59
10th Percentile - £13.23 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £26.60 £12.01
Median hourly rate £12.80 £37.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -65.88% +100.53% +7.32%
75th Percentile £26.66 £48.49 £33.66
90th Percentile £48.75 £56.43 £52.02
England median hourly rate £20.55 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -51.64% +54.55% +31.26%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the North of England

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for NIST in the North of England

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NIST in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for NIST in the North of England

NIST
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
North West +25 40 £650 +18.18% 17
Yorkshire +17 24 £591 +2.78% 5
North East +21 4 £575 - 3
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.29%) AWS
2 6 (8.82%) Azure
3 3 (4.41%) GCP
3 3 (4.41%) GitHub
4 2 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.47%) IaaS
5 1 (1.47%) PaaS
5 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) Network Security
2 6 (8.82%) Wireless
3 3 (4.41%) Firewall
4 2 (2.94%) DNS
4 2 (2.94%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (2.94%) Big Data
1 2 (2.94%) Hadoop
1 2 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
1 2 (2.94%) GitLab
1 2 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.82%) Legal
3 6 (8.82%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.35%) Finance
5 1 (1.47%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (22.06%) Lead
2 13 (19.12%) Analyst
3 11 (16.18%) Architect
3 11 (16.18%) Security Architect
4 8 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 8 (11.76%) Test Analyst
5 7 (10.29%) Consultant
6 5 (7.35%) Penetration Tester
6 5 (7.35%) Security Consultant
6 5 (7.35%) Tester
7 3 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Security Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Coordinator
8 2 (2.94%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Information Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Information Assurance Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Information Security Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Principal Consultant
8 2 (2.94%) Principal Security Consultant
8 2 (2.94%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.94%) SAML
2 1 (1.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 24 (35.29%) Management Information System
2 18 (26.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 17 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (22.06%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (13.24%) Operational Technology
6 6 (8.82%) Mobile App
7 4 (5.88%) Security Posture
8 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
10 1 (1.47%) Cyberattack
10 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Windows
2 8 (11.76%) Linux
3 1 (1.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (63.24%) Cybersecurity
1 43 (63.24%) Information Security
2 23 (33.82%) Risk Management
3 22 (32.35%) Use Case
4 21 (30.88%) SIEM
5 20 (29.41%) Incident Response
6 19 (27.94%) Mentoring
7 18 (26.47%) Business Strategy
7 18 (26.47%) IT Strategy
8 17 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
9 16 (23.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 16 (23.53%) Incident Management
9 16 (23.53%) SOAR
9 16 (23.53%) Threat Intelligence
10 15 (22.06%) Case Management
11 14 (20.59%) CRM
11 14 (20.59%) Protective Monitoring
11 14 (20.59%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (17.65%) Roadmaps
12 12 (17.65%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) Python
2 6 (8.82%) C++
2 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.94%) Go
5 1 (1.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 35 (51.47%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.47%) DV Cleared
2 18 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) CEH
3 6 (8.82%) CREST Certified
3 6 (8.82%) GIAC
3 6 (8.82%) GPEN
3 6 (8.82%) OSCP
4 5 (7.35%) CISSP
5 4 (5.88%) CISA
5 4 (5.88%) CISM
5 4 (5.88%) Degree
5 4 (5.88%) ISSAP
6 1 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.47%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (42.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (25.00%) NIST 800
3 12 (17.65%) PCI DSS
4 9 (13.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (5.88%) COBIT
6 3 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (4.41%) GRC
7 2 (2.94%) COSO
7 2 (2.94%) ISO 31000
8 1 (1.47%) GDPR
8 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.94%) Docker
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Terraform
2 2 (2.94%) Ansible
2 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.88%) Rapid7
3 3 (4.41%) Sophos
4 2 (2.94%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.94%) Databricks
4 2 (2.94%) Teradata
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco
5 1 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.47%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.47%) F5
5 1 (1.47%) Qualys
5 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.47%) Splunk
5 1 (1.47%) VMware