NIST 800 Contracts in Wales

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring NIST 800 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST 800 over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.29% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £540 £660 £613
% change year-on-year -18.21% +7.80% -18.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wales

NIST 800 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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 54 83 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 15.52% 21.34% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 41 39
10th Percentile £184 £161 £263
25th Percentile £303 £220 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.90% +8.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £506 £544 £572
90th Percentile £562 £638 £590
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 9
10th Percentile - £16.74 -
25th Percentile - £22.00 -
Median hourly rate £13.08 £27.50 £10.92
Median % change year-on-year -52.44% +151.83% -12.61%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £42.50
90th Percentile £14.23 £44.75 £49.00
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £26.16 £35.25
% change year-on-year +7.71% -25.78% +41.82%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing NIST 800 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for NIST 800 in Wales

NIST 800
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Police
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) RMADS