NIST Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warwickshire requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 32 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 +15
Contract jobs citing NIST 11 13 20
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 2.07% 3.71% 5.83%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.19% 15.12% 25.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 20
10th Percentile £520 £488 £459
25th Percentile - £494 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £588
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -12.34% -13.60%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £725
90th Percentile £705 - £750
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 108 86 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 20.30% 24.57% 23.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 56 62
10th Percentile £195 £381 £401
25th Percentile £400 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £578 £584
90th Percentile £738 £613 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.95% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £16.05 - £17.30
25th Percentile £16.11 - £23.75
Median hourly rate £16.13 £14.70 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.73% -57.39% +172.51%
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £40.46 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.13 £16.19 £21.25
% change year-on-year -0.37% -23.81% +6.25%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

NIST job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing NIST

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Warwickshire

NIST
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Warwick -9 9 £550 -2.22% 2
Gaydon - 1 £500 -
NIST
West Midlands

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
1 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) BGP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
2 1 (9.09%) IPv4
2 1 (9.09%) IPv6
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) MPLS
2 1 (9.09%) OSPF
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) VLAN
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) VXLAN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Wireless
2 1 (9.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 3 (27.27%) Security Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (18.18%) CSOC
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Incident Response
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (27.27%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (27.27%) SIEM
5 2 (18.18%) API Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Business Process Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Change Control
5 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
5 2 (18.18%) MoSCoW
5 2 (18.18%) OWASP
5 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) CISM
2 3 (27.27%) CISSP
3 2 (18.18%) CREST Certified
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) GIAC
3 2 (18.18%) SANS
4 1 (9.09%) CEH
4 1 (9.09%) CISA
4 1 (9.09%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) NCSC
2 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
3 1 (9.09%) COBIT
3 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) logstash
2 1 (9.09%) QRadar
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) CyberArk
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (9.09%) F5
2 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
2 1 (9.09%) Meraki
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
2 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Tenable
2 1 (9.09%) VMware