NIST Jobs in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 305 322
Rank change year-on-year +72 +17 +153
Permanent jobs citing NIST 705 800 903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.43% 0.89% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.78% 6.62% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 361 667 646
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £45,250
25th Percentile £54,700 £49,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £88,333 £84,919 £86,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% -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 8,034 12,082 16,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.29% 13.45% 18.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,215 8,352 7,668
10th Percentile £30,580 £26,500 £32,200
25th Percentile £43,112 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in England

NIST
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NIST in England.

Salary trend for NIST in England

NIST
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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 +72 246 £82,500 +10.00% 259
Midlands +129 173 £60,750 -13.21% 24
West Midlands +104 122 £59,000 -17.19% 15
South East +11 84 £67,500 +33.66% 62
North of England -35 75 £60,000 +4.35% 67
South West +64 55 £67,500 -15.63% 55
East Midlands +85 51 £62,500 +31.58% 9
North West -48 45 £61,000 +1.67% 43
East of England +52 19 £42,085 -41.95% 23
Yorkshire +38 16 £57,500 +4.55% 14
North East +40 14 £57,500 +35.29% 11
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (0.57%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.43%) Confluence
3 2 (0.28%) IIS
3 2 (0.28%) TPMS
4 1 (0.14%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 162 (22.98%) AWS
2 157 (22.27%) Azure
3 92 (13.05%) Serverless
4 90 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (7.38%) GCP
6 41 (5.82%) Entra ID
7 32 (4.54%) PaaS
8 31 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (4.11%) SaaS
10 28 (3.97%) Azure Sentinel
11 26 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (2.70%) IaaS
13 14 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.13%) GitHub
15 7 (0.99%) Azure Key Vault
16 5 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (0.71%) Cloudflare
16 5 (0.71%) Power Platform
17 4 (0.57%) Amazon S3
17 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 120 (17.02%) Firewall
2 85 (12.06%) SSL
3 82 (11.63%) Broadband
3 82 (11.63%) SSH
4 81 (11.49%) Network Security
5 46 (6.52%) VPN
6 30 (4.26%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (1.28%) DNS
8 8 (1.13%) WAN
9 7 (0.99%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.85%) HTTP
11 5 (0.71%) LAN
11 5 (0.71%) VLAN
12 4 (0.57%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.43%) Wireless
14 2 (0.28%) DMZ
14 2 (0.28%) NAS
14 2 (0.28%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.42%) NoSQL
2 5 (0.71%) Power BI
3 3 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (0.43%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.28%) Big Data
4 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.28%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.14%) DB2
5 1 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.14%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.14%) HBase
5 1 (0.14%) MySQL
5 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (2.13%) JIRA
2 2 (0.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.14%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.14%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.14%) MLflow
3 1 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 241 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 134 (19.01%) Finance
3 79 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (8.51%) Legal
5 25 (3.55%) Banking
6 24 (3.40%) Retail
7 23 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.84%) Law
11 13 (1.84%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.56%) Local Government
12 11 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.28%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.28%) Electronics
13 9 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.99%) Marketing
14 7 (0.99%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.71%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 226 (32.06%) Security Engineer
2 166 (23.55%) Analyst
3 153 (21.70%) Principal Engineer
4 147 (20.85%) Principal Security Engineer
5 141 (20.00%) Security Analyst
6 96 (13.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 87 (12.34%) Principal Security Analyst
7 87 (12.34%) Product Analyst
8 85 (12.06%) DevOps Engineer
9 70 (9.93%) Lead
10 68 (9.65%) Architect
11 60 (8.51%) Product Engineer
12 46 (6.52%) Senior
13 45 (6.38%) Security Architect
14 44 (6.24%) Security Manager
15 24 (3.40%) Information Analyst
15 24 (3.40%) Information Security Analyst
16 23 (3.26%) Information Manager
16 23 (3.26%) Information Security Manager
17 21 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (12.06%) RESTful
2 82 (11.63%) Web Services
3 19 (2.70%) YAML
4 9 (1.28%) SailPoint
5 5 (0.71%) EDI
5 5 (0.71%) SLSA
6 4 (0.57%) JSON
6 4 (0.57%) OAuth
6 4 (0.57%) OpenID
6 4 (0.57%) SAML
7 3 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.43%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.28%) Azure Blueprints
8 2 (0.28%) EJB
8 2 (0.28%) JWT
8 2 (0.28%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.28%) LDAP
8 2 (0.28%) REST
8 2 (0.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 184 (26.10%) Management Information System
2 117 (16.60%) Cyber Threat
3 116 (16.45%) Security Posture
4 93 (13.19%) PKI
5 87 (12.34%) Onboarding
6 85 (12.06%) Cyberattack
7 21 (2.98%) Cloud Native
8 15 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
9 13 (1.84%) Cyber Defence
9 13 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.28%) Operational Technology
11 9 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.28%) Taxonomies
12 8 (1.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 7 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.85%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.85%) Social Media
14 6 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 5 (0.71%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.96%) Windows
2 10 (1.42%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.28%) Linux
4 6 (0.85%) Windows Vista
5 3 (0.43%) VMS
5 3 (0.43%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (74.89%) Cybersecurity
2 363 (51.49%) Information Security
3 333 (47.23%) Risk Management
4 179 (25.39%) Security Testing
5 167 (23.69%) Project Management
6 162 (22.98%) Cyber Resilience
7 140 (19.86%) DevOps
8 139 (19.72%) Roadmaps
9 124 (17.59%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 120 (17.02%) Incident Response
11 113 (16.03%) Vulnerability Management
12 103 (14.61%) SIEM
13 90 (12.77%) Cloud Security
14 89 (12.62%) Key Management
15 85 (12.06%) Use Case
16 82 (11.63%) Deployment Automation
16 82 (11.63%) Programme Delivery
17 76 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
18 68 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
19 64 (9.08%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 141 (20.00%) Python
2 61 (8.65%) PowerShell
3 20 (2.84%) Bash
3 20 (2.84%) SQL
4 19 (2.70%) Java
5 11 (1.56%) C#
6 9 (1.28%) Perl
7 6 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (0.85%) R
8 5 (0.71%) Go
9 3 (0.43%) C++
10 2 (0.28%) VBA
11 1 (0.14%) Bicep
11 1 (0.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 307 (43.55%) CISSP
2 297 (42.13%) CISM
3 267 (37.87%) Degree
4 153 (21.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 153 (21.70%) CESG Certified Professional
5 52 (7.38%) CRISC
6 51 (7.23%) Security Cleared
7 48 (6.81%) Master's Degree
8 45 (6.38%) CISA
9 43 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 41 (5.82%) CEH
11 36 (5.11%) SC Cleared
12 35 (4.96%) Cisco Certification
13 27 (3.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (3.26%) AWS Certification
15 20 (2.84%) CCSP
16 19 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
17 18 (2.55%) Azure Certification
18 16 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 16 (2.27%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 544 (77.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 155 (21.99%) RMADS
3 151 (21.42%) JSP 440
4 145 (20.57%) GDPR
5 76 (10.78%) PCI DSS
6 62 (8.79%) GRC
7 60 (8.51%) NCSC
8 55 (7.80%) Cyber Essentials
9 49 (6.95%) COBIT
10 29 (4.11%) NIST 800
11 28 (3.97%) SOC 2
12 26 (3.69%) HIPAA
13 21 (2.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 15 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 14 (1.99%) Accessibility
16 10 (1.42%) Def Stans
16 10 (1.42%) QA
16 10 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.99%) SOC 1
18 3 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 108 (15.32%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.13%) Docker
3 5 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) HDFS
5 1 (0.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 97 (13.76%) Terraform
2 16 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.42%) Nessus
3 10 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (1.28%) RSA Archer
5 7 (0.99%) Ansible
6 6 (0.85%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.85%) Puppet
7 5 (0.71%) HP Fortify
7 5 (0.71%) QRadar
8 4 (0.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.57%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.43%) CASB
10 2 (0.28%) Argo
10 2 (0.28%) Grafana
10 2 (0.28%) Graylog
10 2 (0.28%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.28%) Istio
10 2 (0.28%) linkerd
Vendors
1 130 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 84 (11.91%) Thales
3 24 (3.40%) Google
4 16 (2.27%) Cisco
4 16 (2.27%) Splunk
5 11 (1.56%) Palo Alto
5 11 (1.56%) VMware
6 9 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
6 9 (1.28%) Tenable
7 8 (1.13%) Qualys
8 7 (0.99%) Citrix
8 7 (0.99%) Oracle
9 6 (0.85%) SAP
10 5 (0.71%) Okta
10 5 (0.71%) Rapid7
10 5 (0.71%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.71%) Tanium
11 3 (0.43%) Alibaba
11 3 (0.43%) Databricks
11 3 (0.43%) Zscaler