NIST Job Trends in the City of Westminster

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring NIST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NIST 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of Westminster 3.23% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.67% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £75,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 12 27 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 19.35% 14.75% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £64,205 £57,414 £52,875
25th Percentile £65,026 £57,848 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,480 £61,688 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -13.42% +18.75%
75th Percentile £85,313 £65,519 £79,063
90th Percentile £88,750 £65,948 £91,250
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £63,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.24% -5.93% -3.57%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NIST relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

NIST job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

NIST
Salary Trend in the City of Westminster

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing NIST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing NIST

NIST
Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Westminster - 1 £70,000 -
NIST
Central London

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) IAM Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware