NIST Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring NIST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 60 81
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 +33
Contract jobs citing NIST 8 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.97% 1.38% 0.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.97% 12.09% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 7
10th Percentile £505 - £480
25th Percentile £510 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £680 £669
90th Percentile £644 £716 £753
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.33% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 134 91 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 16.18% 11.42% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 61 130
10th Percentile £235 £263 £274
25th Percentile £385 £359 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £584
90th Percentile £604 £638 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.86
25th Percentile - - £16.68
Median hourly rate £22.14 - £18.81
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.56%
75th Percentile - - £20.91
90th Percentile £23.28 - £21.72
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £20.50
% change year-on-year +86.36% -42.05% +9.63%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

NIST job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

NIST
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in West Yorkshire

NIST
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 within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Leeds -10 7 £535 +7.00% 7
Bradford -5 1 - - 5
NIST
Yorkshire

NIST
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) OCI
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Slack
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Security Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Information Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (25.00%) FinOps
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (25.00%) GCIA
1 2 (25.00%) GCIH
1 2 (25.00%) GIAC
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) SSCP
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) NIST 800
2 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (12.50%) GRC
3 1 (12.50%) ISO 22301
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kustomize
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk