NIST Contract Job Trends in Southampton

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring NIST skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 2.21% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £535 - -
25th Percentile £543 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £530 £655 £667
% change year-on-year -19.11% -1.76% +18.58%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 26 16 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 19.12% 10.26% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 11
10th Percentile £390 - £240
25th Percentile £475 £200 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £225 £275
Median % change year-on-year +128.03% -18.27% -42.41%
75th Percentile £569 £444 £419
90th Percentile £708 £524 £457
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Southampton

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing NIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing NIST

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) BYOD
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (66.67%) Due Diligence
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Information Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) ISMS
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (33.33%) IASME
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC
2 1 (33.33%) NIST 800