NIST Contracts in West London

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 43 43
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 +18
Contract jobs citing NIST 3 2 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.47% 0.55% 3.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.69% 4.00% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 19
10th Percentile - £348 -
25th Percentile - £381 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £438 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -37.50% -17.65%
75th Percentile - £494 £838
90th Percentile - £528 -
London median daily rate £650 £638 £675
% change year-on-year +1.96% -5.56% +8.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 39 50 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 19.12% 13.85% 18.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 82
10th Percentile £170 £210 £350
25th Percentile £209 £250 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £350 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -39.13% +9.52%
75th Percentile £428 £438 £638
90th Percentile £678 £570 £700
London median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 9
10th Percentile £16.12 £17.37 £38.90
25th Percentile £17.41 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £20.20 £18.13 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.42% -71.67% +201.53%
75th Percentile £22.27 £23.80 £70.00
90th Percentile - £45.52 £84.00
London median hourly rate £34.75 £24.50 £30.75
% change year-on-year +41.84% -20.33% -30.90%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West London.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in West London

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in West London.

Daily rate trend for NIST in West London

NIST
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Hillingdon +7 2 - -
Hounslow +12 1 - - 1
NIST
London

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Forensic Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform