NIST Jobs in Cambridgeshire

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 102 116
Rank change year-on-year +46 +14 +37
Permanent jobs citing NIST 5 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.98% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.58% 1.17% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £52,752 £56,625 -
25th Percentile £59,032 £60,938 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £71,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -28.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £78,000 £80,938 -
90th Percentile £78,300 £84,875 -
East of England median annual salary £46,753 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -35.51% +3.57% -6.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 66 171 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 12.99% 10.84% 20.95%
Number of salaries quoted 43 124 73
10th Percentile £26,800 £24,817 £25,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £38,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -9.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £75,000 £73,200
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £43,742 £55,500
% change year-on-year +14.31% -21.19% +11.00%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Cambridgeshire

NIST
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NIST in Cambridgeshire.

Salary trend for NIST in Cambridgeshire

NIST
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NIST in Cambridgeshire

NIST
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Peterborough +10 3 £74,000 +28.70% 1
Cambridge +41 2 - - 10
NIST
East of England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) VLAN
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Governance Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Governance Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Risk Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (40.00%) Data Encryption
2 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (40.00%) Data Privacy
2 2 (40.00%) Immunology
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) ISMS
2 2 (40.00%) Line Management
2 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) IT Governance
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISM
2 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) CISA
3 1 (20.00%) CRISC
3 1 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (40.00%) COBIT
3 2 (40.00%) NCSC
3 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft