NIST Job Trends in Hertfordshire

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
East of England > Hertfordshire

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 98 64
Rank change year-on-year +15 -34 +63
Permanent jobs citing NIST 6 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.36% 0.084% 0.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.62% 0.41% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile - - £51,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +20.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £64,375
90th Percentile - - £66,250
East of England median annual salary £71,250 £74,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.72% +5.71% +22.27%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 130 242 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.71% 20.23% 13.53%
Number of salaries quoted 97 56 72
10th Percentile £30,750 £26,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £52,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% -7.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,100 £73,125 £73,750
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

NIST job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

NIST
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing NIST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing NIST

NIST
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Hatfield - 3 - -
Stevenage - 3 £75,000 - 6
NIST
East of England

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 3 (50.00%) Boomi
1 3 (50.00%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (50.00%) Pentaho
1 3 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 3 (50.00%) Star Schema
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Law
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Information Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Information Security Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (50.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 3 (50.00%) ETL
1 3 (50.00%) Information Security
1 3 (50.00%) ISMS
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) RBAC
1 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM
1 3 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) GDPR
1 6 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Informatica
1 3 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 3 (50.00%) Talend