NIST Contracts in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for NIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NIST over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 114 129
Rank change year-on-year +47 +15 +12
Contract jobs citing NIST 87 49 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.75% 1.42% 1.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.54% 12.73% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 32 29
10th Percentile £500 £491 £525
25th Percentile £513 £591 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £738
90th Percentile £698 £700 £813
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £65.18 - £56.69
25th Percentile £67.31 £59.73 £63.17
Median hourly rate £72.75 £64.15 £71.08
Median % change year-on-year +13.41% -9.76% -
75th Percentile £76.31 £72.98 £80.13
90th Percentile £77.33 - £82.46
England median hourly rate £66.25 £64.15 £71.08
% change year-on-year +3.28% -9.76% +39.65%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

NIST is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 560 385 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.68% 11.17% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 270 297
10th Percentile £263 £250 £190
25th Percentile £409 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £588
90th Percentile £700 £738 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 43 22
10th Percentile £12.43 £18.09 £49.26
25th Percentile £35.00 £51.37 £52.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £61.97
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +4.90% +23.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £79.88 £69.64
90th Percentile - £83.40 £78.24
England median hourly rate £23.00 £39.42 £28.50
% change year-on-year -41.65% +38.32% +35.71%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in the South West over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for NIST in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 22 May 2024. 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
Wiltshire +23 52 £600 -5.88% 5
Bristol +24 22 £525 -8.70% 10
Dorset +10 7 £73 - 1
Somerset - 3 £700 - 3
Devon -1 2 £475 -5.94%
Gloucestershire -1 1 £700 +7.69% 1
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (4.60%) Apache Solr
1 4 (4.60%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.20%) AWS
2 7 (8.05%) Azure
3 5 (5.75%) GCP
4 4 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (4.60%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (4.60%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.64%) Network Security
2 8 (9.20%) DNS
2 8 (9.20%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.60%) HTTPS
3 4 (4.60%) IPsec
4 3 (3.45%) Firewall
5 2 (2.30%) DHCP
6 1 (1.15%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.15%) Internet
6 1 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.15%) VPN
6 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.60%) Couchbase
1 4 (4.60%) MySQL
1 4 (4.60%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Artifactory
General
1 47 (54.02%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.94%) Telecoms
3 12 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.79%) Manufacturing
4 9 (10.34%) Military
4 9 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.05%) Legal
6 5 (5.75%) Finance
7 4 (4.60%) Electronics
7 4 (4.60%) Marketing
8 2 (2.30%) Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (27.59%) Lead
2 13 (14.94%) Analyst
2 13 (14.94%) Architect
3 10 (11.49%) Consultant
3 10 (11.49%) Cyber Defence Analyst
3 10 (11.49%) Security Consultant
4 9 (10.34%) Security Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Lead Architect
5 8 (9.20%) Project Manager
5 8 (9.20%) SOC Manager
6 5 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Information Assurance Consultant
6 5 (5.75%) Information Security Consultant
7 4 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared Project Manager
7 4 (4.60%) SOC Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Service Architect
9 2 (2.30%) Information Manager
9 2 (2.30%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.60%) JSON
1 4 (4.60%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (4.60%) YAML
2 1 (1.15%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.15%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 37 (42.53%) Cyber Defence
2 32 (36.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 31 (35.63%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (33.33%) Management Information System
5 14 (16.09%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (10.34%) Cloud Native
7 8 (9.20%) CESG
7 8 (9.20%) Security Posture
8 4 (4.60%) Public Cloud
9 3 (3.45%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (2.30%) Operational Technology
10 2 (2.30%) SCADA
11 1 (1.15%) Cyberattack
11 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Linux
2 4 (4.60%) CentOS
2 4 (4.60%) Windows
3 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.30%) Unix
3 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (77.01%) Cybersecurity
2 54 (62.07%) Information Security
3 48 (55.17%) SIEM
4 35 (40.23%) Incident Response
5 32 (36.78%) SOAR
6 31 (35.63%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 31 (35.63%) Mentoring
6 31 (35.63%) Root Cause Analysis
6 31 (35.63%) Threat Intelligence
7 30 (34.48%) Use Case
8 28 (32.18%) Case Management
8 28 (32.18%) Incident Management
9 27 (31.03%) CRM
9 27 (31.03%) Protective Monitoring
10 26 (29.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 22 (25.29%) Security Operations
12 16 (18.39%) Agile
12 16 (18.39%) Security Architecture
13 15 (17.24%) Information Assurance
14 11 (12.64%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.60%) C#
1 4 (4.60%) PHP
2 2 (2.30%) Java
2 2 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (2.30%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 71 (81.61%) Security Cleared
2 46 (52.87%) DV Cleared
3 30 (34.48%) CISSP
4 24 (27.59%) CISM
5 23 (26.44%) SC Cleared
6 10 (11.49%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (9.20%) CEH
7 8 (9.20%) CISA
7 8 (9.20%) CISMP
7 8 (9.20%) ISACA
7 8 (9.20%) SSCP
8 7 (8.05%) CESG Certified Professional
9 6 (6.90%) CLAS
10 5 (5.75%) Degree
11 2 (2.30%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.15%) CCNP
12 1 (1.15%) CCSP
12 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (48.28%) NIST 800
2 33 (37.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (22.99%) GDPR
4 13 (14.94%) HIPAA
5 11 (12.64%) PCI DSS
6 9 (10.34%) JSP 440
7 8 (9.20%) NCSC
8 6 (6.90%) RMADS
9 5 (5.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (4.60%) QA
11 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (2.30%) COBIT
12 2 (2.30%) COSO
12 2 (2.30%) ISA99
12 2 (2.30%) SLA
13 1 (1.15%) GRC
13 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (1.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Docker
1 2 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (6.90%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.90%) Terraform
2 4 (4.60%) Ansible
2 4 (4.60%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 2 (2.30%) SCCM
3 2 (2.30%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.05%) Splunk
3 5 (5.75%) Google
3 5 (5.75%) SAP
4 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.30%) LogRhythm
5 2 (2.30%) Veeam
5 2 (2.30%) VMware
6 1 (1.15%) CyberArk