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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 616 650
Rank change year-on-year +64 +34 +184
Permanent jobs citing NIST 800 50 46 33
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.094% 0.095% 0.067%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.73% 0.59% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 33 19 13
10th Percentile £53,250 £45,500 £52,650
25th Percentile £63,750 £50,000 £57,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -2.44% -15.17%
75th Percentile £74,000 £75,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £81,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.03% -13.93% -3.45%

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 6,849 7,819 7,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.90% 16.21% 14.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,048 3,520 5,375
10th Percentile £30,461 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,169 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £58,920
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +1.83% +2.47%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,300 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £57,643
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.09% +0.25%

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 15 January 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 15 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
South West +13 24 £67,500 +12.50% 5
London +76 16 £71,000 -11.25% 6
West Midlands +22 3 - -
South East +21 3 £44,241 -24.70% 5
Midlands +18 3 - -
North West +17 3 - - 1
North of England +3 3 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (32.00%) IIS
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) GNU Octave
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.00%) AWS
1 9 (18.00%) Azure
2 5 (10.00%) GCP
2 5 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) Network Security
2 5 (10.00%) Firewall
3 3 (6.00%) Modbus
4 2 (4.00%) InfiniBand
4 2 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.00%) VPN
5 1 (2.00%) Broadband
5 1 (2.00%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Finance
2 7 (14.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Banking
5 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.00%) Local Government
7 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Retail
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (56.00%) Consultant
2 26 (52.00%) Security Consultant
3 24 (48.00%) Senior
4 22 (44.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 18 (36.00%) Senior Consultant
6 16 (32.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
6 16 (32.00%) Senior Security Consultant
7 5 (10.00%) Security Specialist
8 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Security Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Information Security Specialist
9 3 (6.00%) Information Specialist
9 3 (6.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 2 (4.00%) Governance Manager
10 2 (4.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
10 2 (4.00%) Information Manager
10 2 (4.00%) Information Risk Manager
10 2 (4.00%) IT Governance Manager
10 2 (4.00%) Risk Manager
10 2 (4.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (6.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (44.00%) Management Information System
2 16 (32.00%) CESG
3 9 (18.00%) Security Posture
4 3 (6.00%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.00%) Operational Technology
4 3 (6.00%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (6.00%) SCADA
5 2 (4.00%) CUDA
6 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.00%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.00%) PKI
6 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.00%) Smartcard
6 1 (2.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (82.00%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (68.00%) Information Security
2 34 (68.00%) Risk Management
3 23 (46.00%) ISMS
3 23 (46.00%) Security Management
4 20 (40.00%) Information Assurance
5 19 (38.00%) Information Security Management
5 19 (38.00%) Matrix Organization
6 16 (32.00%) Active Listening
6 16 (32.00%) Creative Thinking
6 16 (32.00%) Innovative Thinking
7 7 (14.00%) Incident Response
7 7 (14.00%) Risk Assessment
8 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (12.00%) Threat Modelling
8 6 (12.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (10.00%) Design Patterns
9 5 (10.00%) Red Team
9 5 (10.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.00%) Python
2 2 (4.00%) Bash
2 2 (4.00%) Go
3 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (68.00%) CISSP
2 32 (64.00%) CISM
3 20 (40.00%) CISMP
4 19 (38.00%) CESG Certified Professional
5 16 (32.00%) IISP
6 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
7 10 (20.00%) SC Cleared
8 8 (16.00%) CRISC
9 6 (12.00%) Degree
10 4 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (8.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 4 (8.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 4 (8.00%) SANS
11 3 (6.00%) CISA
11 3 (6.00%) ISACA
12 2 (4.00%) CEH
12 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
12 2 (4.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (98.00%) NIST
2 22 (44.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (44.00%) JSP 440
3 18 (36.00%) NCSC
4 16 (32.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 16 (32.00%) RMADS
5 12 (24.00%) GRC
6 5 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (10.00%) Def Stans
6 5 (10.00%) GDPR
7 3 (6.00%) SOC 2
8 2 (4.00%) QA
9 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
9 1 (2.00%) ISO 31000
9 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
9 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (2.00%) SOC 1
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) GPFS
1 2 (4.00%) Lustre
1 2 (4.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 4 (8.00%) RSA Archer
2 3 (6.00%) Ansible
3 2 (4.00%) SELinux
3 2 (4.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.00%) Nmap
4 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) NVIDIA
2 2 (4.00%) Splunk
3 1 (2.00%) Darktrace
3 1 (2.00%) Dell
3 1 (2.00%) Intel
3 1 (2.00%) Tenable
3 1 (2.00%) Thales
3 1 (2.00%) VMware