NIST Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 125 117
Rank change year-on-year +29 -8 +95
Contract jobs citing NIST 68 62 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.94% 1.24% 1.70%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.51% 9.48% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 33 71
10th Percentile £463 £463 £500
25th Percentile £548 £500 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £645 £681
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -5.22% +4.69%
75th Percentile £678 £690 £738
90th Percentile £741 £710 £838
England median daily rate £585 £645 £650
% change year-on-year -9.30% -0.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £72.75 £64.15
% change year-on-year +16.84% +13.41% -11.43%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 647 654 793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 18.50% 13.12% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 326 493
10th Percentile £200 £250 £246
25th Percentile £375 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £587 £605
90th Percentile £650 £688 £711
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 60 49
10th Percentile £15.12 £10.82 £15.21
25th Percentile £15.34 £17.91 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.91 £28.75 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% -41.32% +144.98%
75th Percentile £66.19 £62.96 £53.75
90th Percentile £87.71 £70.00 £66.89
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% -35.29% +74.54%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in the South East.

Daily rate trend for NIST in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in the South East over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NIST in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for NIST in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Thames Valley +26 41 £600 - 18
Berkshire +30 37 £600 -7.69% 12
Hampshire +17 25 £600 -7.69% 17
Surrey - 4 £500 - 9
Oxfordshire - 3 £675 - 2
Buckinghamshire +1 1 £550 +10.00% 4
East Sussex -3 1 - -
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.94%) TPMS
2 1 (1.47%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.12%) Azure
2 10 (14.71%) AWS
3 8 (11.76%) GCP
4 3 (4.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.41%) SonarCloud
5 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.94%) OCI
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.47%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) Firewall
1 6 (8.82%) Network Security
2 3 (4.41%) VPN
3 1 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 7 (10.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Snyk
2 2 (2.94%) Git
2 2 (2.94%) JIRA
3 1 (1.47%) GitLab
3 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.47%) MLflow
General
1 38 (55.88%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.82%) Finance
4 5 (7.35%) Legal
5 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.94%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 19 (27.94%) Architect
1 19 (27.94%) Security Architect
2 14 (20.59%) Consultant
3 11 (16.18%) Security Consultant
4 7 (10.29%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 7 (10.29%) Security Manager
5 6 (8.82%) Project Manager
5 6 (8.82%) Security Project Manager
6 5 (7.35%) Analyst
6 5 (7.35%) Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Lead
6 5 (7.35%) Oracle Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Report Developer
7 4 (5.88%) SOC Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 3 (4.41%) Bid Writer
8 3 (4.41%) Compliance Project Manager
8 3 (4.41%) Security Compliance Manager
8 3 (4.41%) SOC Consultant
8 3 (4.41%) Technical Bid Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (4.41%) PyTorch
2 3 (4.41%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.94%) Google JAX
3 2 (2.94%) JAX
3 2 (2.94%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.65%) Security Posture
2 9 (13.24%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (11.76%) Cloud Native
4 6 (8.82%) PKI
5 5 (7.35%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (4.41%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
7 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (2.94%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.47%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.47%) PMI
9 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
2 5 (7.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (45.59%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (29.41%) Incident Response
3 19 (27.94%) SIEM
4 18 (26.47%) Information Security
4 18 (26.47%) Security Architecture
5 15 (22.06%) Security Operations
6 14 (20.59%) Cloud Security
6 14 (20.59%) Risk Management
6 14 (20.59%) Security Management
7 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (19.12%) Threat Modelling
8 12 (17.65%) Agile
8 12 (17.65%) Threat Intelligence
9 11 (16.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 11 (16.18%) Roadmaps
9 11 (16.18%) Vulnerability Management
10 10 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (13.24%) Data Privacy
11 9 (13.24%) Data Protection
11 9 (13.24%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.71%) PowerShell
2 8 (11.76%) Python
3 5 (7.35%) SQL
4 2 (2.94%) C
4 2 (2.94%) C++
4 2 (2.94%) Java
4 2 (2.94%) R
5 1 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 27 (39.71%) Security Cleared
2 20 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 16 (23.53%) CISSP
4 6 (8.82%) CISM
4 6 (8.82%) GCIA
4 6 (8.82%) GCIH
5 5 (7.35%) GCFA
5 5 (7.35%) GIAC
6 4 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.88%) CCSP
6 4 (5.88%) CFCE
6 4 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.88%) Degree
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.41%) CEH
7 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.94%) CISA
8 2 (2.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (64.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (26.47%) GDPR
3 15 (22.06%) NIST 800
4 9 (13.24%) COBIT
5 8 (11.76%) PCI DSS
6 5 (7.35%) PSD2
6 5 (7.35%) RMADS
7 4 (5.88%) EU AI Act
7 4 (5.88%) NCSC
8 3 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (4.41%) HIPAA
9 2 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (1.47%) COSO
10 1 (1.47%) GRC
10 1 (1.47%) ISO 22301
10 1 (1.47%) ISO 9001
10 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 3 (4.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.88%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (2.94%) QRadar
4 1 (1.47%) CASB
4 1 (1.47%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.76%) Splunk
3 7 (10.29%) Oracle
4 4 (5.88%) ArcSight
4 4 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (5.88%) LogRhythm
5 3 (4.41%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco
6 1 (1.47%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.47%) Google
6 1 (1.47%) Intel
6 1 (1.47%) Kenna
6 1 (1.47%) Qualys
6 1 (1.47%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.47%) Sparx
6 1 (1.47%) Tenable