NIST 800 Contract Job Trends in Reading

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring NIST 800 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 76 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.78% 0.12% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.35% 0.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £461 £619 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £638 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.39% - -
75th Percentile £686 £656 -
90th Percentile £694 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £559 £634 -
% change year-on-year -11.87% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £102.50 - -
25th Percentile £103.25 - -
Median hourly rate £105.50 - -
75th Percentile £106.75 - -
90th Percentile £106.90 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £105.50 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 138 118 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 17.95% 14.30% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 32 117
10th Percentile £375 £336 £316
25th Percentile £453 £385 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £648 £586 £575
90th Percentile £680 £648 £620
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
75th Percentile £100.50 - -
90th Percentile £106.40 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.00 £61.50 £65.83
% change year-on-year +31.72% -6.59% +192.59%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST 800 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

NIST 800 job vacancy trend in Reading

NIST 800
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing NIST 800.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing NIST 800

NIST 800
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST 800 in Reading over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NIST 800 in Reading

NIST 800
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) IPsec
1 3 (50.00%) MQTT
1 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Solutions Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Information Assurance Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 3 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 3 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (50.00%) NCSC
3 2 (33.33%) Def Stans
4 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (16.67%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft