NIST Jobs in Leeds

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 70 122 149
Rank change year-on-year +52 +27 +46
Permanent jobs citing NIST 12 12 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 1.53% 0.50% 0.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.12% 4.41% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 15
10th Percentile £51,250 £44,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £50,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.00% -47.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £73,318 £57,500 -
90th Percentile £77,500 £64,984 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £64,000 £55,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.36% -31.25% -20.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 99 272 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 12.63% 11.40% 16.15%
Number of salaries quoted 78 172 256
10th Percentile £37,100 £29,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £51,466 £38,890 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,622 £50,000 £54,941
Median % change year-on-year +23.24% -8.99% +10.99%
75th Percentile £73,500 £62,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £91,250 £87,250 £95,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £54,941
% change year-on-year +15.00% -8.99% +22.09%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Leeds

NIST
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for NIST in Leeds

NIST
Salary Histogram in Leeds

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

Salary histogram for NIST in Leeds

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Serverless
2 2 (16.67%) IaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Mimecast
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Law
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Lead
2 4 (33.33%) Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Information Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Information Security Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Information Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Information Security Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Security Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Junior
5 1 (8.33%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (41.67%) Information Security
2 5 (41.67%) Risk Assessment
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (25.00%) Logistics
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 2 (16.67%) Compliance Management
5 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Risk and Compliance Management
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CISM
1 4 (33.33%) CISSP
2 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (8.33%) CCSP
3 1 (8.33%) CEH
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) OSCP
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (41.67%) GRC
3 1 (8.33%) COBIT
3 1 (8.33%) NCSC
3 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
3 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (16.67%) Tenable
2 2 (16.67%) Varonis