NIST Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring NIST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 158 209
Rank change year-on-year +10 +51 -1
Permanent jobs citing NIST 33 11 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.53% 0.37% 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.57% 3.40% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 17
10th Percentile £65,000 - £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £41,280 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £46,753 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +60.42% -35.51% +3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £77,800 £81,500
England median annual salary £73,706 £74,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.40% +5.71% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 502 324 667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 8.05% 10.87% 10.90%
Number of salaries quoted 302 194 462
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £24,807
25th Percentile £39,063 £32,500 £29,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.28% -21.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,500 £77,500 £76,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

NIST job vacancy trend in the East of England

NIST
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NIST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NIST

NIST
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for NIST in the East of England

NIST
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Cambridgeshire -13 16 £76,150 +2.91% 6
Hertfordshire -16 14 £75,000 +78.21% 6
Essex -22 2 £65,000 - 1
Bedfordshire +21 1 £82,500 +17.86% 1
NIST
England

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) AWS
2 11 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (18.18%) AWS KMS
4 5 (15.15%) Boomi
4 5 (15.15%) Matillion
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) Firewall
2 6 (18.18%) DMZ
2 6 (18.18%) Intrusion Detection
2 6 (18.18%) Network Security
3 1 (3.03%) SAN
3 1 (3.03%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (15.15%) Pentaho
1 5 (15.15%) Snowflake Schema
1 5 (15.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 15 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (36.36%) Finance
3 11 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
5 6 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (15.15%) Law
7 3 (9.09%) Legal
8 2 (6.06%) Aerospace
8 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Analyst
1 8 (24.24%) Security Analyst
2 7 (21.21%) Consultant
2 7 (21.21%) Lead
3 6 (18.18%) Information Analyst
3 6 (18.18%) Information Security Analyst
4 5 (15.15%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Security Consultant
5 3 (9.09%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) IT Security Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Compliance Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Governance Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Security Compliance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Security Posture
2 7 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 7 (21.21%) Cloud Security Posture
3 6 (18.18%) Blog
3 6 (18.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 6 (18.18%) Life Science
3 6 (18.18%) PKI
4 5 (15.15%) Data Structures
4 5 (15.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (6.06%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
1 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Information Security
2 14 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (39.39%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (36.36%) ISMS
4 12 (36.36%) RBAC
4 12 (36.36%) Risk Management
5 10 (30.30%) Cloud Security
6 9 (27.27%) SIEM
7 8 (24.24%) Containerisation
7 8 (24.24%) Project Management
7 8 (24.24%) Security Architecture
7 8 (24.24%) Security Operations
7 8 (24.24%) Zero Trust
8 7 (21.21%) AI
8 7 (21.21%) SDLC
8 7 (21.21%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 7 (21.21%) Threat Modelling
8 7 (21.21%) Use Case
8 7 (21.21%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 7 (21.21%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) SQL
3 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 10 (30.30%) DV Cleared
3 7 (21.21%) CISSP
3 7 (21.21%) CRISC
3 7 (21.21%) Degree
3 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
4 6 (18.18%) CISM
5 5 (15.15%) DBS Check
6 4 (12.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (12.12%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (9.09%) CISA
8 2 (6.06%) CCSK
8 2 (6.06%) CEH
9 1 (3.03%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (3.03%) GSEC
9 1 (3.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
9 1 (3.03%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (90.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (57.58%) GDPR
3 13 (39.39%) GRC
4 8 (24.24%) NCSC
5 7 (21.21%) ISO 31000
6 6 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 6 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 6 (18.18%) JSP 440
6 6 (18.18%) PCI DSS
7 5 (15.15%) Data Quality
7 5 (15.15%) HIPAA
7 5 (15.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (9.09%) NIST 800
9 2 (6.06%) SOC 2
10 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.03%) SCCM
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Informatica
1 5 (15.15%) MuleSoft
1 5 (15.15%) Talend
2 2 (6.06%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) ForgeRock
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.03%) VMware