NIST Contract Job Trends in Oxford

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 7.84% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 57.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £455 - -
90th Percentile £496 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £460 £625 -
% change year-on-year -26.40% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7 0 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 13.73% - 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 13
10th Percentile £331 - £363
25th Percentile £399 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £525 - £506
90th Percentile £575 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £515 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +14.44% - -3.47%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

NIST job vacancy trend in Oxford

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing NIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing NIST

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Oxford over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Oxford

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Information Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Information Security Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Django
1 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (25.00%) Flask
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (25.00%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus