NIST Contracts in Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 78 92
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 +44
Contract jobs citing NIST 8 25 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.77% 1.50% 1.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.10% 11.85% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 26
10th Percentile £519 £550 £500
25th Percentile £544 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £582 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +1.22% -2.54%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £634
90th Percentile £690 £810 £675
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 157 211 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.10% 12.70% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 123 157
10th Percentile £235 £311 £273
25th Percentile £313 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £507 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -0.59% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £603 £650 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 8
10th Percentile - - £13.16
25th Percentile - £10.86 £16.58
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.93 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year +102.56% -63.87% +47.60%
75th Percentile £25.14 £14.22 £49.08
90th Percentile £34.24 £27.41 £50.22
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.42 £40.00
% change year-on-year +56.11% -43.95% +37.36%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Yorkshire

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in Yorkshire

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Yorkshire

NIST
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Yorkshire +14 4 £600 -4.00% 16
South Yorkshire +6 3 £600 -40.00% 7
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
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
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
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%) Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) IT Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) IT Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) OpenID
2 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) FinOps
4 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (25.00%) Security Management
4 2 (25.00%) SIEM
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CISSP
2 3 (37.50%) CISM
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) CCNA
4 1 (12.50%) CCSP
4 1 (12.50%) CEH
4 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (62.50%) GDPR
3 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
3 3 (37.50%) SOC 2
4 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (12.50%) COBIT
5 1 (12.50%) GRC
5 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
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%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kustomize
2 1 (12.50%) Nessus
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Aruba
1 1 (12.50%) Centrify
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Qualys
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk
1 1 (12.50%) Thycotic