NIST 800 Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring NIST 800 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - 78
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.21% - 0.093%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.09% - 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £518 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £539 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £530 - £582
% change year-on-year - - +1.22%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 183 74 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.77% 14.45% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 51 68
10th Percentile £363 £263 £222
25th Percentile £463 £313 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £641 £725 £706
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £448
% change year-on-year +11.11% +0.55% -10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £14.43 - -
25th Percentile £14.69 - -
Median hourly rate £15.81 £22.14 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% - -
75th Percentile £17.36 £25.14 -
90th Percentile £17.88 £34.24 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.31 £22.14 £10.86
% change year-on-year -26.33% +103.87% -48.56%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NIST 800 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

NIST 800 job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

NIST 800
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing NIST 800.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing NIST 800

NIST 800
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 March 2026. 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
Leeds - 2 £530 - 1
NIST 800
Yorkshire

NIST 800
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) GCIA
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid7