NIST Contracts in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing NIST 13 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.08% - 1.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.38% - 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £359 - -
25th Percentile £401 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.74%
75th Percentile £579 - £775
90th Percentile £600 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -17.31% +8.33% +4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 105 35 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 16.83% 7.48% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 24 29
10th Percentile £268 £215 £300
25th Percentile £345 £378 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% -3.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £529 £622 £600
90th Percentile £588 £643 £715
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £506 £509
% change year-on-year -11.07% -0.49% +7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.03%
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £21.00
% change year-on-year +86.36% -43.43% +12.30%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in South Yorkshire

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in South Yorkshire

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in South Yorkshire

NIST
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Sheffield - 12 £475 - 4
NIST
Yorkshire

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SSH
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
1 6 (46.15%) Postman
1 6 (46.15%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
1 5 (38.46%) Test Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Programme Director
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Security Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Services Director
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (15.38%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Cloud Security
2 8 (61.54%) Identity Access Management
2 8 (61.54%) Privileged Access Management
3 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 7 (53.85%) DevSecOps
4 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 6 (46.15%) API Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Kanban
4 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (46.15%) Risk Management
4 6 (46.15%) Scrum
4 6 (46.15%) Security Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Software Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Test Management
5 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
6 4 (30.77%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (23.08%) Regulatory Change
7 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) CISM
1 6 (46.15%) CISSP
1 6 (46.15%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (76.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (69.23%) GDPR
3 6 (46.15%) PCI DSS
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (7.69%) FIPS 140-2
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) BeyondTrust
2 6 (46.15%) CyberArk
2 6 (46.15%) Google
2 6 (46.15%) Thycotic