NIST Contracts in the UK excluding London

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 212 322
Rank change year-on-year +30 +110 -15
Contract jobs citing NIST 233 279 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.12% 1.16% 0.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.41% 7.81% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 204 145
10th Percentile £475 £491 £505
25th Percentile £525 £541 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +22.55%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £779 £788
UK median daily rate £625 £640 £625
% change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 9
10th Percentile £33.48 £46.59 £52.05
25th Percentile £47.99 £55.49 £56.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £68.58
Median % change year-on-year +5.23% -6.47% +34.73%
75th Percentile £79.00 £70.77 £79.04
90th Percentile £81.36 £72.98 £81.85
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £65.79
% change year-on-year +5.23% -2.50% +31.58%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,144 3,571 4,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.13% 14.79% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,828 2,400 3,073
10th Percentile £254 £213 £200
25th Percentile £365 £360 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £563
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 184 196
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.49 £11.36
25th Percentile £12.58 £18.09 £15.38
Median hourly rate £18.00 £35.00 £21.53
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% +62.60% +2.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.00 £47.55
90th Percentile £67.41 £77.05 £66.21
UK median hourly rate £20.80 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -44.53% +31.58% +35.55%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
South West +57 86 £582 -6.88% 16
North of England +24 68 £650 +13.04% 14
South East +1 52 £613 -12.50% 30
North West +24 40 £650 +18.18% 9
Midlands +2 33 £550 -12.00% 19
West Midlands +6 31 £550 -10.20% 17
Yorkshire +12 24 £591 +2.78% 3
Scotland +34 20 £630 -0.20% 9
East of England +11 5 £662 +25.50% 11
North East +23 4 £575 -4.17% 2
East Midlands +21 2 £625 -10.71% 1
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.15%) Confluence
2 4 (1.72%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.72%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (10.73%) AWS
1 25 (10.73%) Azure
2 12 (5.15%) GCP
3 4 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (1.72%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (1.72%) GitHub
4 3 (1.29%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.86%) Amazon S3
5 2 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (0.86%) IaaS
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.86%) PaaS
6 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (13.30%) Network Security
2 20 (8.58%) Firewall
3 15 (6.44%) DNS
4 14 (6.01%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.00%) DHCP
6 6 (2.58%) Wireless
7 4 (1.72%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.72%) IPsec
8 3 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.86%) Broadband
9 2 (0.86%) Internet
9 2 (0.86%) PPP
9 2 (0.86%) VPN
10 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.43%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.43%) WAN
10 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.72%) Couchbase
1 4 (1.72%) MySQL
1 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.29%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.86%) Big Data
3 2 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (0.86%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (2.58%) JIRA
2 3 (1.29%) GitLab
3 2 (0.86%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.43%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
General
1 82 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.59%) Public Sector
3 23 (9.87%) Legal
4 20 (8.58%) Telecoms
5 14 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.01%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.15%) Finance
7 10 (4.29%) Military
8 6 (2.58%) Electronics
9 5 (2.15%) Banking
10 4 (1.72%) French Language
10 4 (1.72%) German Language
10 4 (1.72%) Marketing
11 3 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Local Government
13 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (22.32%) Analyst
2 41 (17.60%) Architect
3 36 (15.45%) Lead
4 30 (12.88%) Consultant
5 28 (12.02%) Security Consultant
6 24 (10.30%) Security Architect
7 16 (6.87%) Cyber Defence Analyst
8 14 (6.01%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 13 (5.58%) Security Engineer
10 12 (5.15%) Senior
10 12 (5.15%) SOC Analyst
11 11 (4.72%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 11 (4.72%) Security Analyst
12 10 (4.29%) SOC Manager
13 9 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.86%) Project Manager
14 8 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.43%) Lead Architect
14 8 (3.43%) Security Advisor
14 8 (3.43%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.72%) JSON
1 4 (1.72%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (1.72%) YAML
2 2 (0.86%) Kafka
2 2 (0.86%) ModSecurity
2 2 (0.86%) SAML
3 1 (0.43%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 57 (24.46%) Management Information System
2 54 (23.18%) Cyber Threat
3 49 (21.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 47 (20.17%) Cyber Defence
5 15 (6.44%) Operational Technology
5 15 (6.44%) Security Operations Centre
5 15 (6.44%) Security Posture
6 10 (4.29%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.86%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.86%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.43%) CESG
8 8 (3.43%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.58%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.29%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.29%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.86%) IoT
11 2 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.59%) Linux
2 20 (8.58%) Windows
3 10 (4.29%) Mac OS X
4 8 (3.43%) Unix
5 7 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.00%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.72%) CentOS
7 2 (0.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (75.97%) Cybersecurity
2 111 (47.64%) Information Security
3 88 (37.77%) SIEM
4 70 (30.04%) Risk Management
5 55 (23.61%) Incident Response
6 53 (22.75%) Incident Management
7 49 (21.03%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 49 (21.03%) Use Case
8 47 (20.17%) Mentoring
8 47 (20.17%) Threat Intelligence
9 46 (19.74%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 43 (18.45%) Security Architecture
10 43 (18.45%) SOAR
11 41 (17.60%) Protective Monitoring
12 40 (17.17%) Root Cause Analysis
13 38 (16.31%) Case Management
14 34 (14.59%) CRM
15 33 (14.16%) Vulnerability Management
16 29 (12.45%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (11.59%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.15%) Java
2 11 (4.72%) Python
3 9 (3.86%) C#
4 6 (2.58%) C++
4 6 (2.58%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.15%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.72%) PHP
7 2 (0.86%) Go
7 2 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.86%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.43%) Perl
8 1 (0.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 141 (60.52%) Security Cleared
2 72 (30.90%) SC Cleared
3 71 (30.47%) DV Cleared
4 51 (21.89%) CISSP
5 44 (18.88%) CISM
6 25 (10.73%) CISA
7 19 (8.15%) Degree
8 16 (6.87%) ISACA
9 15 (6.44%) CEH
10 14 (6.01%) CISMP
11 12 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (4.72%) CRISC
13 9 (3.86%) CompTIA Security+
13 9 (3.86%) SSCP
14 8 (3.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (3.43%) CESG Certified Professional
15 6 (2.58%) CLAS
15 6 (2.58%) CREST Certified
15 6 (2.58%) GPEN
15 6 (2.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (46.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (24.89%) NIST 800
3 44 (18.88%) GDPR
4 24 (10.30%) HIPAA
5 21 (9.01%) COBIT
5 21 (9.01%) PCI DSS
6 20 (8.58%) NCSC
7 19 (8.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (5.15%) GRC
9 11 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 10 (4.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 10 (4.29%) JSP 440
11 7 (3.00%) RMADS
12 4 (1.72%) QA
13 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.86%) COSO
14 2 (0.86%) ISO 31000
14 2 (0.86%) PMO
14 2 (0.86%) SLA
15 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 8 (3.43%) Active Directory
1 8 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.00%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (3.00%) VMware NSX
3 5 (2.15%) Docker
4 1 (0.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) Snort
Systems Management
1 10 (4.29%) Terraform
2 9 (3.86%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.00%) SCCM
3 7 (3.00%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.58%) Ansible
5 4 (1.72%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 1 (0.43%) Kibana
6 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (26.61%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.01%) VMware
3 9 (3.86%) Splunk
4 7 (3.00%) SAP
4 7 (3.00%) Veeam
5 6 (2.58%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.58%) Google
5 6 (2.58%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.15%) Sophos
7 3 (1.29%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.86%) Cadence
8 2 (0.86%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.86%) Databricks
8 2 (0.86%) F5
8 2 (0.86%) Qualys
8 2 (0.86%) Teradata
9 1 (0.43%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.43%) Darktrace
9 1 (0.43%) OneTrust