NIST Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 8 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 4.42% 2.04% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.59% 11.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £363 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.40% - -
75th Percentile £494 £638 -
90th Percentile £511 - -
South East median daily rate £496 £615 £643
% change year-on-year -19.35% -4.36% -1.07%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 29 17 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 16.02% 17.35% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 17
10th Percentile £222 £401 £143
25th Percentile £316 £450 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +11.76% -13.48%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £506
90th Percentile £600 - £594
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.77% +13.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £89.63 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.89% - -
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £36.00 £53.00 £52.81
% change year-on-year -32.08% +0.36% +140.03%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

NIST job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing NIST

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Oxfordshire

NIST
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Oxford - 4 £375 - 8
Abingdon - 1 - -
NIST
South East

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Analyst
1 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
1 1 (12.50%) Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Developer
1 1 (12.50%) IAM Specialist
1 1 (12.50%) Information Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Information Security Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Specialist
1 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
1 1 (12.50%) Senior
1 1 (12.50%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Senior Python Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) OAuth
1 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (25.00%) OpenID
2 1 (12.50%) Django
2 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 1 (12.50%) Flask
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) SAML
2 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) Application Security
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (12.50%) RBAC
4 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (37.50%) GDPR
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (12.50%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Argo
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk