NIST 800 Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring NIST 800 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.19% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £700 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 142 95 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 13.71% 17.12% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 79 24
10th Percentile £349 £260 £215
25th Percentile £425 £338 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £506
Median % change year-on-year - -11.07% -11.03%
75th Percentile £547 £525 £622
90th Percentile £669 £599 £643
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £475 £503
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -8.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.02 - -
Median hourly rate £32.40 - -
75th Percentile £36.61 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.40 - -

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

NIST 800 job vacancy trend in Sheffield

NIST 800
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (100.00%) SCADA
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISA99
1 2 (100.00%) NIST