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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 158 123
Rank change year-on-year +32 -35 +104
Permanent jobs citing NIST 29 20 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.70% 0.57% 1.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.73% 3.90% 8.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 21
10th Percentile £62,250 £60,600 £55,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.72% +5.71% +22.27%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile - £78,300 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -3.57%

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 332 513 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.99% 14.60% 12.65%
Number of salaries quoted 236 169 212
10th Percentile £30,370 £27,945 £24,775
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £29,568
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £77,250
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.69% +2.61%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +20 11 £67,500 -8.78% 4
Suffolk +2 11 - - 2
Hertfordshire +15 6 £75,000 +3.45% 11
Bedfordshire +31 1 £59,500 -19.32% 5
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 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) AWS KMS
3 3 (10.34%) Boomi
3 3 (10.34%) Matillion
4 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (3.45%) PaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Firewall
2 4 (13.79%) Network Security
3 3 (10.34%) DMZ
3 3 (10.34%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.45%) DHCP
4 1 (3.45%) DNS
4 1 (3.45%) NGFW
4 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (10.34%) Pentaho
1 3 (10.34%) Snowflake Schema
1 3 (10.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.24%) Finance
4 3 (10.34%) Law
4 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Lead
1 7 (24.14%) Technical Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) Consultant
2 4 (13.79%) Security Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Information Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Information Security Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Security Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Information Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Information Security Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) PySpark
2 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.45%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 8 (27.59%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (24.14%) Operational Technology
3 7 (24.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
5 3 (10.34%) Blog
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
5 3 (10.34%) Life Science
5 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
5 3 (10.34%) PKI
5 3 (10.34%) Security Posture
6 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Security Operations
2 14 (48.28%) Business Strategy
2 14 (48.28%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (48.28%) Vulnerability Management
3 13 (44.83%) Risk Management
4 10 (34.48%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 8 (27.59%) Incident Management
5 8 (27.59%) ISMS
5 8 (27.59%) Roadmaps
6 7 (24.14%) Change Advisory Board
6 7 (24.14%) Coaching
6 7 (24.14%) Cyber Intelligence
6 7 (24.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 7 (24.14%) Information Security
6 7 (24.14%) ITIL
6 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
6 7 (24.14%) Presales
6 7 (24.14%) SABSA
6 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (24.14%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) CCNA
1 7 (24.14%) CCNP
1 7 (24.14%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) CISM
2 4 (13.79%) CISSP
2 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) CEH
3 3 (10.34%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) A+ Certification
4 1 (3.45%) CISA
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) MCP
4 1 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (72.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (65.52%) GDPR
3 9 (31.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (24.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 5 (17.24%) PCI DSS
6 4 (13.79%) GRC
7 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
7 3 (10.34%) HIPAA
7 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 3 (10.34%) JSP 440
7 3 (10.34%) NCSC
7 3 (10.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (3.45%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Informatica
1 3 (10.34%) MuleSoft
1 3 (10.34%) Talend
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Foundry