NIST Contracts in South London

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 39 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.17% 0.82% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.18% 12.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £475 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £650 £650 £675
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £70.24 - -
25th Percentile £72.40 - -
Median hourly rate £78.40 - -
75th Percentile £82.00 - -
90th Percentile £82.72 - -
London median hourly rate £83.20 - £80.00

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 22 16 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 11.96% 6.56% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 33
10th Percentile £213 - £131
25th Percentile £229 £200 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £428 £430
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -0.58% -14.00%
75th Percentile £538 £533 £575
90th Percentile £647 £616 £719
London median daily rate £530 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £70.24 - -
25th Percentile £72.40 £65.63 -
Median hourly rate £78.40 £68.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% - -
75th Percentile £82.00 £71.88 -
90th Percentile £82.72 - -
London median hourly rate £34.75 £24.50 £30.75
% change year-on-year +41.84% -20.33% -30.90%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in South London

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in South London

NIST
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Kingston Upon Thames - 3 - -
Merton - 3 - -
Croydon +5 1 £450 -5.26%
NIST
London

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (25.00%) PKI
3 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Assurance
3 2 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Compliance Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (25.00%) SABSA
4 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) CISM
2 2 (50.00%) CRISC
2 2 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (25.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Dell
1 1 (25.00%) EMC
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (25.00%) SonicWALL
1 1 (25.00%) VMware