NIST 800 Contracts in the West Midlands

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 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 94 101 114
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 3 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.46% 0.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.28% 2.98% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 15
10th Percentile £580 £529 £625
25th Percentile £588 £538 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £569 £680
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -16.32% -
75th Percentile £663 £666 -
90th Percentile £700 £693 £700
England median daily rate £593 £582 £650
% change year-on-year +1.80% -10.46% -13.91%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 234 302 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.38% 15.53% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 212 257
10th Percentile £208 £260 £263
25th Percentile £350 £372 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +10.01%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £600
90th Percentile £638 £786 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 29 10
10th Percentile - £11.81 £10.99
25th Percentile £14.70 £13.18 £12.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £14.00 £16.10
Median % change year-on-year +101.29% -13.04% -5.29%
75th Percentile £31.76 £18.12 £23.02
90th Percentile £54.00 £58.75 £27.92
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.04 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.84% -44.91% +46.79%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing NIST 800 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NIST 800 in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST 800 in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for NIST 800 in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST 800 within the West Midlands 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
Coventry - 2 £625 - 2
Warwickshire - 1 £600 - 1
NIST 800
England

NIST 800
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) Modbus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (66.67%) SCADA
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) NCSC
3 1 (33.33%) GRC