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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 41 45
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing NIST 2 2 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 0.73% 0.68% 3.67%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.55% 4.44% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 22
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £369 - £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - £825
75th Percentile £406 - £838
90th Percentile £418 - £850
London median daily rate £588 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -9.62% -3.70% +3.85%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 44 45 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 16.00% 15.20% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 93
10th Percentile £218 £204 £416
25th Percentile £231 £350 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £400 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -28.89% +10.35%
75th Percentile £469 £500 £638
90th Percentile £525 £569 £838
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 4
10th Percentile £31.79 £18.13 £41.85
25th Percentile £32.25 £20.97 £43.07
Median hourly rate £34.00 £23.80 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -62.67% +298.44%
75th Percentile £41.50 £25.24 £84.38
90th Percentile £45.40 £40.01 £87.75
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.92 £27.50
% change year-on-year +21.78% +1.53% +1.85%

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
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing NIST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing NIST

NIST
DemandTrendContract 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 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hammersmith - 1 £425 -
Hillingdon - 1 £350 - 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) DMZ
2 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) Telnet
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) GRC
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Okta
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable