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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 306 321
Rank change year-on-year +59 +15 +134
Permanent jobs citing NIST 634 793 936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.28% 0.92% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.84% 6.65% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 372 656 651
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £45,250
25th Percentile £54,700 £48,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -4.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,919 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% +3.70%

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 8,083 11,932 17,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.35% 13.80% 19.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,340 8,330 7,853
10th Percentile £30,580 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £77,500
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 19 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 19 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 +55 217 £82,500 +10.00% 312
Midlands +142 176 £62,500 -6.72% 55
West Midlands +97 124 £62,500 -10.71% 39
North of England -15 85 £60,000 +4.35% 123
South East +13 75 £65,000 +28.71% 160
North West -43 55 £61,750 +2.92% 60
East Midlands +67 52 £62,500 +31.58% 14
South West +50 50 £66,250 +1.92% 82
Yorkshire +48 17 £57,500 +4.55% 48
North East +30 13 £57,500 +35.29% 16
East of England +32 11 £46,753 -35.51% 44
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 (0.63%) Confluence
2 2 (0.32%) IBM Domino
2 2 (0.32%) IIS
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.32%) TPMS
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 153 (24.13%) Azure
2 81 (12.78%) AWS
3 53 (8.36%) GCP
4 37 (5.84%) Entra ID
5 32 (5.05%) SaaS
6 31 (4.89%) PaaS
7 27 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
10 19 (3.00%) IaaS
11 13 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.26%) GitHub
12 8 (1.26%) Serverless
13 7 (1.10%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.79%) Cloudflare
16 4 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (0.63%) Azure AKS
16 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
16 4 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 123 (19.40%) Firewall
2 79 (12.46%) Network Security
3 40 (6.31%) VPN
4 34 (5.36%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (1.26%) DNS
5 8 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.26%) WAN
6 6 (0.95%) HTTP
7 5 (0.79%) LAN
8 4 (0.63%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.63%) VLAN
8 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.47%) SAN
10 2 (0.32%) DHCP
10 2 (0.32%) DMZ
10 2 (0.32%) NAS
10 2 (0.32%) SMTP
10 2 (0.32%) SSL
10 2 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.42%) NoSQL
2 4 (0.63%) Power BI
3 3 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (0.47%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.32%) Big Data
4 2 (0.32%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.16%) DB2
5 1 (0.16%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.16%) HBase
5 1 (0.16%) MySQL
5 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (2.37%) JIRA
2 2 (0.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.16%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.16%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.16%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.16%) MLflow
3 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 163 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 132 (20.82%) Finance
3 87 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (10.41%) Legal
5 26 (4.10%) Retail
6 24 (3.79%) Banking
6 24 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (2.37%) Public Sector
10 14 (2.21%) Law
11 13 (2.05%) Electronics
12 12 (1.89%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.74%) Local Government
14 9 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.26%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.95%) Marketing
16 6 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.79%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 225 (35.49%) Security Engineer
2 167 (26.34%) Analyst
3 153 (24.13%) Principal Engineer
4 147 (23.19%) Principal Security Engineer
5 142 (22.40%) Security Analyst
6 87 (13.72%) Principal Security Analyst
6 87 (13.72%) Product Analyst
7 74 (11.67%) Architect
8 62 (9.78%) Lead
9 60 (9.46%) Product Engineer
10 53 (8.36%) Senior
11 51 (8.04%) Security Architect
11 51 (8.04%) Security Manager
12 26 (4.10%) Information Analyst
13 25 (3.94%) Information Manager
13 25 (3.94%) Information Security Analyst
13 25 (3.94%) Information Security Manager
14 22 (3.47%) Consultant
15 20 (3.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 20 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.68%) YAML
2 7 (1.10%) SailPoint
3 6 (0.95%) Azure Blueprints
4 5 (0.79%) EDI
4 5 (0.79%) SLSA
5 4 (0.63%) JSON
6 3 (0.47%) OAuth
6 3 (0.47%) OpenID
6 3 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.47%) RESTful
6 3 (0.47%) SAML
7 2 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.32%) JWT
7 2 (0.32%) Keycloak
7 2 (0.32%) LDAP
7 2 (0.32%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.32%) REST
7 2 (0.32%) SOAP
8 1 (0.16%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.16%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 125 (19.72%) Security Posture
2 106 (16.72%) Management Information System
3 37 (5.84%) Cyber Threat
4 23 (3.63%) Cloud Native
5 14 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.05%) Cyber Defence
6 13 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.05%) Security Operations Centre
7 12 (1.89%) Social Media
7 12 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 11 (1.74%) Cyber Security Posture
8 11 (1.74%) Operational Technology
8 11 (1.74%) PKI
9 10 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 8 (1.26%) Taxonomies
11 6 (0.95%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.79%) Blog
12 5 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.52%) Windows
2 12 (1.89%) Windows Vista
3 10 (1.58%) Linux
4 8 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.63%) VMS
6 3 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (72.87%) Cybersecurity
2 379 (59.78%) Information Security
3 338 (53.31%) Risk Management
4 177 (27.92%) Security Testing
5 167 (26.34%) Project Management
6 161 (25.39%) Cyber Resilience
7 121 (19.09%) Incident Response
7 121 (19.09%) Vulnerability Management
8 100 (15.77%) SIEM
9 98 (15.46%) Cloud Security
10 84 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
11 72 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 72 (11.36%) Security Architecture
12 68 (10.73%) Computer Science
13 65 (10.25%) Mentoring
14 64 (10.09%) CI/CD
15 62 (9.78%) DevOps
15 62 (9.78%) Security Operations
16 61 (9.62%) Data Protection
17 60 (9.46%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 60 (9.46%) PowerShell
2 59 (9.31%) Python
3 20 (3.15%) Bash
4 19 (3.00%) Java
5 16 (2.52%) SQL
6 11 (1.74%) C#
7 8 (1.26%) Perl
8 7 (1.10%) Go
9 6 (0.95%) R
10 5 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.63%) C++
12 2 (0.32%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.32%) VBA
13 1 (0.16%) Bicep
13 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 319 (50.32%) CISSP
2 309 (48.74%) CISM
3 275 (43.38%) Degree
4 153 (24.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 151 (23.82%) CESG Certified Professional
6 54 (8.52%) Security Cleared
7 52 (8.20%) CRISC
8 50 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (7.89%) Master's Degree
9 49 (7.73%) CISA
10 46 (7.26%) CEH
11 41 (6.47%) Cisco Certification
12 37 (5.84%) SC Cleared
13 34 (5.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 23 (3.63%) AWS Certification
15 22 (3.47%) CCSP
16 17 (2.68%) Azure Certification
16 17 (2.68%) CompTIA Security+
17 16 (2.52%) GIAC
18 15 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 473 (74.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 156 (24.61%) GDPR
3 155 (24.45%) RMADS
4 151 (23.82%) JSP 440
5 84 (13.25%) PCI DSS
6 62 (9.78%) GRC
7 60 (9.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 60 (9.46%) NCSC
8 49 (7.73%) COBIT
9 30 (4.73%) NIST 800
10 28 (4.42%) SOC 2
11 25 (3.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 23 (3.63%) HIPAA
13 16 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 15 (2.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (2.21%) Accessibility
15 14 (2.21%) Def Stans
16 9 (1.42%) QA
17 6 (0.95%) SOC 1
18 4 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 22 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.21%) Docker
3 6 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) HDFS
6 1 (0.16%) NFS
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (3.15%) Terraform
2 19 (3.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.58%) Nessus
4 8 (1.26%) RSA Archer
4 8 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.10%) Ansible
5 7 (1.10%) CASB
6 6 (0.95%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.95%) Puppet
7 5 (0.79%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.63%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.63%) QRadar
9 3 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.47%) Istio
9 3 (0.47%) linkerd
10 2 (0.32%) Argo
10 2 (0.32%) Grafana
10 2 (0.32%) Graylog
10 2 (0.32%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 120 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.10%) Google
3 16 (2.52%) Cisco
4 15 (2.37%) Splunk
5 12 (1.89%) VMware
6 11 (1.74%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
7 9 (1.42%) Qualys
7 9 (1.42%) Tenable
8 7 (1.10%) SAP
9 6 (0.95%) Citrix
9 6 (0.95%) Oracle
10 5 (0.79%) Okta
10 5 (0.79%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.79%) Tanium
11 3 (0.47%) Alibaba
11 3 (0.47%) Dell
11 3 (0.47%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.47%) Juniper
11 3 (0.47%) Rapid7