NIST Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring NIST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 255 340
Rank change year-on-year +44 +85 -43
Permanent jobs citing NIST 803 534 686
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.92% 1.23% 0.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.67% 8.16% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 581 403 552
10th Percentile £51,800 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,706 £71,991 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -0.70% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,333 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £103,355
UK median annual salary £73,706 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.66% - +3.57%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,257 6,545 11,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.57% 15.07% 13.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,220 3,845 7,822
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,675 £26,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £36,540
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +7.48% -6.96%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,591 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.16% +9.52% -8.70%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

NIST job vacancy trend in England

NIST
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing NIST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing NIST

NIST
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in England over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for NIST in England

NIST
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 13 July 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 +76 438 £80,000 -3.03% 169
North of England -11 96 £60,000 +2.65% 44
South East -24 84 £72,500 +11.54% 63
South West -46 82 £71,853 +15.52% 46
Midlands -4 65 £67,500 +8.00% 16
North West -2 56 £66,250 +8.61% 29
West Midlands 0 51 £67,500 +11.11% 12
Yorkshire -18 35 £57,239 -0.45% 9
East of England +9 32 £75,000 +78.21% 8
East Midlands -23 14 £60,000 -4.00% 4
North East -62 5 £95,000 +65.22% 7
NIST
UK

NIST
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 7 (0.87%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.75%) SAS
3 3 (0.37%) Confluence
4 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (2.62%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 250 (31.13%) Azure
2 175 (21.79%) AWS
3 87 (10.83%) Entra ID
4 84 (10.46%) Microsoft 365
5 81 (10.09%) GCP
6 40 (4.98%) Microsoft Purview
7 37 (4.61%) SaaS
8 34 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
9 20 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (2.24%) IaaS
10 18 (2.24%) PaaS
11 17 (2.12%) Google Workspace
12 16 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (1.99%) Power Platform
13 15 (1.87%) Datadog
14 13 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (1.62%) Nutanix
15 11 (1.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 9 (1.12%) AWS KMS
16 9 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 130 (16.19%) Firewall
2 120 (14.94%) Network Security
3 68 (8.47%) VPN
4 42 (5.23%) DNS
5 39 (4.86%) WAN
6 35 (4.36%) SD-WAN
7 30 (3.74%) SSL
8 21 (2.62%) DHCP
9 19 (2.37%) Cisco ISE
9 19 (2.37%) VLAN
10 17 (2.12%) Broadband
11 16 (1.99%) BGP
11 16 (1.99%) Wireless
12 15 (1.87%) CHAP
12 15 (1.87%) Cisco Wireless
12 15 (1.87%) Intrusion Detection
13 14 (1.74%) SNMP
13 14 (1.74%) SSH
14 12 (1.49%) MPLS
15 11 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.87%) Power BI
2 8 (1.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.00%) Tableau
3 4 (0.50%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.37%) Db2
5 2 (0.25%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.25%) Pentaho
5 2 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (0.25%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.12%) Metadata
6 1 (0.12%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (1.62%) GitLab
2 8 (1.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.00%) Yeoman
3 6 (0.75%) Git
3 6 (0.75%) JIRA
4 2 (0.25%) Snyk
5 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.12%) Metasploit
General
1 318 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 220 (27.40%) Finance
3 203 (25.28%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (12.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 86 (10.71%) Banking
6 73 (9.09%) Retail
7 66 (8.22%) Legal
8 54 (6.72%) Public Sector
9 44 (5.48%) Law
10 40 (4.98%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (3.99%) Local Government
12 22 (2.74%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.49%) Aviation
14 7 (0.87%) Back Office
14 7 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.75%) Advertising
15 6 (0.75%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.50%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.50%) French Language
Job Titles
1 134 (16.69%) Architect
2 122 (15.19%) Senior
3 115 (14.32%) Analyst
4 102 (12.70%) Lead
5 100 (12.45%) Consultant
6 96 (11.96%) Security Analyst
7 89 (11.08%) Security Architect
8 80 (9.96%) Security Manager
9 70 (8.72%) Security Consultant
10 55 (6.85%) Security Engineer
11 54 (6.72%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 47 (5.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 34 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 34 (4.23%) Senior Consultant
14 33 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
15 30 (3.74%) IT Manager
16 29 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 29 (3.61%) Information Manager
16 29 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (3.49%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.36%) SAML
2 30 (3.74%) OAuth
3 25 (3.11%) OpenID
4 18 (2.24%) LDAP
4 18 (2.24%) REST
5 17 (2.12%) SOAP
6 15 (1.87%) GraphQL
7 11 (1.37%) ARM Templates
8 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (0.87%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.62%) Middleware
9 5 (0.62%) ModSecurity
10 4 (0.50%) RESTful
11 2 (0.25%) HTML
11 2 (0.25%) JSP
11 2 (0.25%) PySpark
11 2 (0.25%) Web Services
12 1 (0.12%) Apache NiFi
12 1 (0.12%) CSS
12 1 (0.12%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 185 (23.04%) Security Posture
2 90 (11.21%) Management Information System
3 46 (5.73%) Cyberattack
4 45 (5.60%) Cyber Threat
5 38 (4.73%) Cyber Defence
6 37 (4.61%) Cloud Native
7 36 (4.48%) PKI
8 34 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (3.36%) Onboarding
10 25 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 23 (2.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 23 (2.86%) Operational Technology
11 23 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
11 23 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (2.62%) Data Centre
13 20 (2.49%) Cloud Security Posture
14 13 (1.62%) Blog
15 12 (1.49%) Cyber Security Posture
16 8 (1.00%) Blockchain
16 8 (1.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 67 (8.34%) Windows
2 50 (6.23%) Linux
3 20 (2.49%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.62%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.62%) Unix
5 4 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.37%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (67.12%) Cybersecurity
2 287 (35.74%) Information Security
2 287 (35.74%) Risk Management
3 233 (29.02%) Incident Response
4 203 (25.28%) Cloud Security
5 180 (22.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 177 (22.04%) SIEM
7 171 (21.30%) Vulnerability Management
8 160 (19.93%) Security Architecture
9 152 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
10 145 (18.06%) Security Operations
11 135 (16.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 117 (14.57%) Mentoring
13 111 (13.82%) Agile
14 107 (13.33%) Roadmaps
15 104 (12.95%) Disaster Recovery
15 104 (12.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 101 (12.58%) Data Protection
17 91 (11.33%) Identity Access Management
18 86 (10.71%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 94 (11.71%) PowerShell
2 87 (10.83%) Python
3 31 (3.86%) SQL
4 23 (2.86%) Bash
5 15 (1.87%) T-SQL
6 12 (1.49%) Bicep
7 6 (0.75%) Java
7 6 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.50%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.12%) Go
9 1 (0.12%) Rust
9 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 346 (43.09%) CISSP
2 282 (35.12%) CISM
3 177 (22.04%) Degree
4 131 (16.31%) Security Cleared
5 106 (13.20%) Cisco Certification
6 105 (13.08%) CISA
7 100 (12.45%) CRISC
8 95 (11.83%) SC Cleared
9 75 (9.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 59 (7.35%) CCSP
10 59 (7.35%) CompTIA Security+
11 52 (6.48%) GIAC
12 46 (5.73%) SANS
13 43 (5.35%) DV Cleared
14 38 (4.73%) CEH
14 38 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
15 33 (4.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 33 (4.11%) Master's Degree
16 31 (3.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 30 (3.74%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 582 (72.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 246 (30.64%) GDPR
3 173 (21.54%) GRC
4 117 (14.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 116 (14.45%) PCI DSS
6 78 (9.71%) NCSC
7 70 (8.72%) NIST 800
8 64 (7.97%) COBIT
9 56 (6.97%) SOC 2
10 43 (5.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 41 (5.11%) QA
12 32 (3.99%) JSP 440
13 31 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 21 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 20 (2.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 18 (2.24%) ITGC
17 16 (1.99%) ISO 22301
18 13 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
19 12 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 12 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.99%) Docker
3 11 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.25%) IAG
5 5 (0.62%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.50%) vSphere
7 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.25%) UAG
Systems Management
1 40 (4.98%) Terraform
2 24 (2.99%) Ansible
2 24 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (1.62%) RSA Archer
6 12 (1.49%) CASB
7 11 (1.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 10 (1.25%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.12%) Cisco Prime
10 8 (1.00%) SCCM
11 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.37%) SCOM
11 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.25%) Nessus
12 2 (0.25%) OpenView
12 2 (0.25%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.12%) Nmap
Vendors
1 212 (26.40%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.85%) Cisco
3 44 (5.48%) Splunk
4 39 (4.86%) Palo Alto
5 35 (4.36%) Google
6 28 (3.49%) SAP
7 27 (3.36%) Oracle
7 27 (3.36%) SolarWinds
8 22 (2.74%) Tenable
8 22 (2.74%) VMware
9 21 (2.62%) CrowdStrike
10 20 (2.49%) Qualys
11 15 (1.87%) Arista
11 15 (1.87%) ForeScout
11 15 (1.87%) Infoblox
11 15 (1.87%) SevOne
12 13 (1.62%) IFS
13 11 (1.37%) OpenAI
13 11 (1.37%) ServiceNow
14 10 (1.25%) F5