NIST Contract Job Trends in Plymouth

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Devon > Plymouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Plymouth requiring NIST skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Plymouth 4.76% - 5.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.00% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £454
25th Percentile £513 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £505
75th Percentile £538 - £546
90th Percentile - - £549
Devon median daily rate £525 - £510
% change year-on-year - - -18.40%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Plymouth

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 Plymouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10 7 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Plymouth 23.81% 14.29% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £413 - £115
25th Percentile £438 - £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £110 £138
Median % change year-on-year +354.55% -20.00% -77.82%
75th Percentile £538 - £535
90th Percentile £643 - £544
Devon median daily rate £500 £177 £465
% change year-on-year +183.29% -62.04% +39.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £25.86 £15.11
25th Percentile £74.25 £34.92 £18.63
Median hourly rate £78.50 £50.00 £26.51
Median % change year-on-year +57.00% +88.59% -
75th Percentile £82.75 £57.50 £33.63
90th Percentile - £62.00 £36.70
Devon median hourly rate £53.75 £50.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +7.50% +177.78% -

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Plymouth

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Plymouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Plymouth citing NIST

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Plymouth 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk