NIST Job Trends in Lincolnshire

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring NIST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NIST 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Lincolnshire 0.41% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.17% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £60,625 - -
25th Percentile £61,563 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 - -
75th Percentile £66,563 - -
90th Percentile £67,875 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £58,750 £62,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.00% +31.58% -15.93%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 72 21 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 9.90% 13.55% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 49 17 35
10th Percentile - £23,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £25,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -18.75% -16.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £145,852 £75,250 £48,750
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -15.79%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

NIST job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

NIST
Salary Trend in Lincolnshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing NIST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing NIST

NIST
Job Locations in Lincolnshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Scunthorpe - 1 £67,500 - 2
Stamford - 1 - -
NIST
East Midlands

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Broadband
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Cyberattack
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Register
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Change Control
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) IT Audit
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) GRC
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory