NIST 800 Job Trends in England

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring NIST 800 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 623 600 743
Rank change year-on-year -23 +143 +68
Permanent jobs citing NIST 800 60 30 81
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.074% 0.077% 0.096%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.73% 0.47% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 30 19 57
10th Percentile £52,250 £57,650 £52,890
25th Percentile £68,000 £73,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £99,375 £98,750 £107,500
90th Percentile £130,125 £113,000 -
UK median annual salary £83,750 £83,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +0.30% +13.22% -1.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

NIST 800 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,238 6,317 11,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.13% 16.13% 13.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,252 3,614 8,287
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £43,094 £41,531 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £78,250 £76,000 £70,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,050
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NIST 800 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

NIST 800 job vacancy trend in England

NIST 800
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing NIST 800.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing NIST 800

NIST 800
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST 800 in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for NIST 800 in England

NIST 800
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST 800 within the 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
London +14 44 £90,000 +5.88% 6
South West -48 5 £55,000 - 5
North West +5 3 - -
South East -19 3 £55,000 -16.35% 8
North of England -28 3 - -
East of England - 3 £82,500 - 1
NIST 800
UK

NIST 800
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.67%) AWS
2 15 (25.00%) Azure
3 11 (18.33%) GCP
4 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (3.33%) AWS KMS
6 2 (3.33%) SaaS
7 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) Network Security
2 2 (3.33%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) Tableau
2 4 (6.67%) Power BI
General
1 25 (41.67%) Finance
2 22 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 21 (35.00%) Retail
4 18 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (26.67%) Banking
5 16 (26.67%) Local Government
6 11 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (6.67%) Aviation
8 4 (6.67%) Legal
9 2 (3.33%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.67%) Law
10 1 (1.67%) Military
10 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (40.00%) Consultant
2 20 (33.33%) Senior
3 16 (26.67%) Senior Consultant
4 7 (11.67%) Lead
4 7 (11.67%) Security Consultant
5 6 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 5 (8.33%) Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Information Manager
6 5 (8.33%) Information Risk Manager
6 5 (8.33%) Risk Manager
6 5 (8.33%) Security Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Security Manager
7 4 (6.67%) Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Metrics Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Security Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Security Specialist
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 3 (5.00%) SOC Manager
9 2 (3.33%) Information Security Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (3.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.67%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 29 (48.33%) Security Posture
2 5 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
2 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.33%) CUDA
3 2 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.33%) PKI
3 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.67%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (68.33%) Information Security
3 35 (58.33%) Risk Management
4 23 (38.33%) Mentoring
5 22 (36.67%) Project Management
6 17 (28.33%) Internal Audit
7 16 (26.67%) Target Operating Model
8 11 (18.33%) Cloud Security
8 11 (18.33%) Matrix Organization
9 10 (16.67%) Agile
10 8 (13.33%) AI
10 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (13.33%) DAMA
10 8 (13.33%) DAMA DMBOK
10 8 (13.33%) Data Management
10 8 (13.33%) Decision-Making
10 8 (13.33%) Security Architecture
10 8 (13.33%) SIEM
11 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (11.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.33%) Bash
1 2 (3.33%) Go
1 2 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 37 (61.67%) CISSP
2 34 (56.67%) CISM
3 23 (38.33%) CRISC
4 13 (21.67%) CISA
5 12 (20.00%) SANS
6 11 (18.33%) ISACA
7 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
7 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
8 8 (13.33%) Degree
9 4 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (6.67%) CCSK
9 4 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared
10 3 (5.00%) CESG Certified Professional
10 3 (5.00%) OSCP
11 2 (3.33%) GCIA
11 2 (3.33%) GCIH
11 2 (3.33%) GIAC
11 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (100.00%) NIST
2 46 (76.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (50.00%) GRC
4 16 (26.67%) QA
5 6 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (10.00%) Def Stans
6 5 (8.33%) GDPR
6 5 (8.33%) NCSC
7 4 (6.67%) JSP 440
8 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (3.33%) SOC 2
10 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
10 1 (1.67%) COBIT
10 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
10 1 (1.67%) ISO 31000
10 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
10 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) GPFS
1 2 (3.33%) Lustre
1 2 (3.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 11 (18.33%) RSA Archer
2 2 (3.33%) Ansible
2 2 (3.33%) SELinux
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.33%) Splunk
2 3 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (5.00%) LogRhythm
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.33%) Google
3 2 (3.33%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.67%) Dell
4 1 (1.67%) Intel
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle
4 1 (1.67%) Qualys
4 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.67%) SAP
4 1 (1.67%) Tenable
4 1 (1.67%) Workday