NIST Jobs in Berkshire

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 115 142
Rank change year-on-year -23 +27 +30
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing NIST 4 31 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.21% 1.17% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.96% 9.04% 7.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 11
10th Percentile - £66,046 £61,250
25th Percentile - £66,250 £67,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £55,750 £76,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £73,300 £86,728 -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £50,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +28.71% -22.31% -13.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

NIST falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Berkshire.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 415 343 368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.51% 12.92% 14.54%
Number of salaries quoted 142 164 182
10th Percentile £25,750 £35,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £40,941 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £92,375
South East median annual salary £65,000 £47,500 £51,300
% change year-on-year +36.84% -7.41% -2.29%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Berkshire

NIST
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing NIST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing NIST

NIST
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in Berkshire over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Salary histogram for NIST in Berkshire

NIST
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bracknell - 3 £46,000 - 1
Reading +16 1 £85,000 +22.02% 6
NIST
South East

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Burp Suite
1 3 (75.00%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Penetration Tester
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacker
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Risk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Risk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Kali Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) OWASP
1 3 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Purple Team
1 3 (75.00%) Red Team
1 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Social Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Offensive Security
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) OSCP
2 1 (25.00%) CGEIT
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CREST Certified
2 1 (25.00%) CRISC
2 1 (25.00%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) GRC
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow