NIST Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 19 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing NIST 5 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 8.93% 1.59% 5.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 29.41% 8.33% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile - - £524
25th Percentile £540 - £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £627 £630
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% -0.48% -30.00%
75th Percentile £585 - -
90th Percentile - - £648
East London median daily rate £563 £627 £640
% change year-on-year -10.29% -2.03% -28.89%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 17 12 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 30.36% 19.05% 26.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 34
10th Percentile £384 £192 £495
25th Percentile £540 £425 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -16.67% +27.06%
75th Percentile £675 £585 £619
90th Percentile - £627 £707
East London median daily rate £585 £450 £540
% change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +27.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.45
25th Percentile - - £14.85
Median hourly rate - - £15.52
75th Percentile - - £16.18
90th Percentile - - £16.58
East London median hourly rate - - £15.52
% change year-on-year - - -13.81%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets.

NIST job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing NIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing NIST

NIST
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Canary Wharf +4 5 £563 -10.29% 1
NIST
East London

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) BCP
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Key Management
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) OWASP
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) GRC
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft