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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 180 317
Rank change year-on-year -10 +137 +38
Contract jobs citing NIST 229 305 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.10% 1.34% 0.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.69% 8.98% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 223 151
10th Percentile £500 £464 £500
25th Percentile £525 £546 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £763
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile £45.09 £49.66 £63.17
25th Percentile £62.50 £59.73 £67.62
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £72.42
Median % change year-on-year +5.23% -11.43% +42.28%
75th Percentile £78.00 £71.88 £80.68
90th Percentile £79.20 £72.98 £82.77
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £71.08
% change year-on-year +5.23% -9.76% +39.65%

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 2,977 3,396 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.33% 14.90% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,736 2,219 3,073
10th Percentile £250 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £363 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 190 202
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.37
25th Percentile £12.75 £17.79 £14.83
Median hourly rate £18.97 £36.25 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year -47.67% +63.69% +5.45%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £48.71
90th Percentile £68.88 £77.73 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £22.42 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -40.21% +31.58% +35.71%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 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
South West +45 95 £600 -5.88% 19
North of England +13 67 £650 +13.04% 21
South East -20 54 £643 -8.13% 26
North West +9 37 £660 +20.00% 13
Midlands 0 35 £550 -10.20% 24
West Midlands -7 30 £538 -12.16% 17
Yorkshire +10 26 £591 +2.78% 7
Scotland +26 9 £663 +4.95% 5
East Midlands +14 4 £723 +17.96% 7
North East +14 4 £575 -4.17% 1
Wales +19 2 £781 +35.87% 1
East of England +2 2 £400 -24.53% 8
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 4 (1.75%) Apache Solr
1 4 (1.75%) Confluence
1 4 (1.75%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.04%) Azure
2 21 (9.17%) AWS
3 9 (3.93%) GCP
4 5 (2.18%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (1.75%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.31%) GitHub
6 3 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.87%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.87%) IaaS
7 2 (0.87%) PaaS
8 1 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (14.85%) Network Security
2 18 (7.86%) Firewall
3 16 (6.99%) DNS
4 15 (6.55%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.06%) DHCP
6 6 (2.62%) Wireless
7 4 (1.75%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.75%) IPsec
8 3 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.87%) PPP
9 2 (0.87%) VPN
10 1 (0.44%) Broadband
10 1 (0.44%) Internet
10 1 (0.44%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.44%) WAN
10 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.75%) Couchbase
1 4 (1.75%) MySQL
1 4 (1.75%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.31%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.87%) Big Data
3 2 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.18%) JIRA
2 2 (0.87%) Artifactory
2 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.87%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
General
1 91 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.54%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.48%) Legal
4 17 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.42%) Telecoms
5 14 (6.11%) Finance
5 14 (6.11%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.93%) Military
7 6 (2.62%) Banking
8 5 (2.18%) Electronics
9 4 (1.75%) Marketing
10 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.44%) Automotive
11 1 (0.44%) French Language
11 1 (0.44%) German Language
11 1 (0.44%) Law
11 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 51 (22.27%) Analyst
2 41 (17.90%) Architect
3 34 (14.85%) Lead
4 30 (13.10%) Consultant
5 26 (11.35%) Security Consultant
6 24 (10.48%) Security Architect
7 17 (7.42%) Security Engineer
8 15 (6.55%) Cyber Defence Analyst
9 13 (5.68%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 13 (5.68%) SOC Analyst
10 11 (4.80%) Senior
11 10 (4.37%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 8 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.49%) Lead Architect
12 8 (3.49%) Project Manager
12 8 (3.49%) Security Analyst
12 8 (3.49%) SOC Manager
12 8 (3.49%) Test Analyst
13 7 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.75%) JSON
2 4 (1.75%) Kafka
2 4 (1.75%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.75%) YAML
3 2 (0.87%) SAML
4 1 (0.44%) Google JAX
4 1 (0.44%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.44%) OLE
4 1 (0.44%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.44%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.44%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 62 (27.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 62 (27.07%) Management Information System
2 58 (25.33%) Cyber Threat
3 57 (24.89%) Cyber Defence
4 18 (7.86%) Operational Technology
5 16 (6.99%) Security Operations Centre
5 16 (6.99%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.93%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.93%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.93%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.49%) CESG
8 6 (2.62%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.75%) Cyber Security Posture
9 4 (1.75%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.31%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.31%) SCADA
11 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.87%) IoT
11 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.72%) Linux
2 23 (10.04%) Windows
3 11 (4.80%) Mac OS X
4 7 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.06%) Unix
4 7 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.75%) CentOS
5 4 (1.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (74.67%) Cybersecurity
2 119 (51.97%) Information Security
3 96 (41.92%) SIEM
4 64 (27.95%) Incident Response
4 64 (27.95%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 62 (27.07%) Incident Management
6 61 (26.64%) Risk Management
7 58 (25.33%) Use Case
8 52 (22.71%) Mentoring
8 52 (22.71%) SOAR
8 52 (22.71%) Threat Intelligence
9 51 (22.27%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 49 (21.40%) Protective Monitoring
10 49 (21.40%) Root Cause Analysis
11 47 (20.52%) Case Management
12 44 (19.21%) CRM
13 37 (16.16%) Vulnerability Management
14 36 (15.72%) Security Architecture
15 27 (11.79%) Security Operations
16 26 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.80%) Python
2 9 (3.93%) C#
2 9 (3.93%) Java
3 7 (3.06%) C++
4 6 (2.62%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.75%) PHP
5 4 (1.75%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.87%) Go
6 2 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.87%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.44%) C
7 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 142 (62.01%) Security Cleared
2 80 (34.93%) DV Cleared
3 64 (27.95%) SC Cleared
4 49 (21.40%) CISSP
5 40 (17.47%) CISM
6 20 (8.73%) CISA
7 15 (6.55%) CEH
7 15 (6.55%) Degree
7 15 (6.55%) ISACA
8 11 (4.80%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (3.93%) CISMP
9 9 (3.93%) SSCP
10 7 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (3.06%) CRISC
11 6 (2.62%) CESG Certified Professional
11 6 (2.62%) CLAS
11 6 (2.62%) CREST Certified
11 6 (2.62%) GIAC
11 6 (2.62%) GPEN
11 6 (2.62%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (39.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (30.57%) NIST 800
3 44 (19.21%) GDPR
4 25 (10.92%) HIPAA
5 22 (9.61%) PCI DSS
6 17 (7.42%) NCSC
7 16 (6.99%) COBIT
8 11 (4.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 11 (4.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 9 (3.93%) JSP 440
10 8 (3.49%) GRC
11 7 (3.06%) RMADS
12 4 (1.75%) COSO
12 4 (1.75%) QA
13 3 (1.31%) ISA99
13 3 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.87%) ISO 31000
14 2 (0.87%) SLA
15 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (3.49%) Active Directory
1 8 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (3.06%) VMware NSX
3 5 (2.18%) Docker
4 1 (0.44%) Firmware
4 1 (0.44%) Snort
Systems Management
1 10 (4.37%) Kibana
1 10 (4.37%) Kubernetes
1 10 (4.37%) Terraform
2 9 (3.93%) logstash
3 7 (3.06%) SCCM
3 7 (3.06%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.62%) Ansible
5 4 (1.75%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (31.88%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.11%) VMware
3 12 (5.24%) Splunk
4 9 (3.93%) Tanium
5 7 (3.06%) Veeam
6 6 (2.62%) Google
6 6 (2.62%) SAP
7 4 (1.75%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.75%) F5
7 4 (1.75%) Qualys
7 4 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.31%) LogRhythm
9 2 (0.87%) Cadence
9 2 (0.87%) Databricks
9 2 (0.87%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.87%) Teradata
10 1 (0.44%) Cisco
10 1 (0.44%) Darktrace
10 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.44%) Sophos