NIST Jobs in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 261 277
Rank change year-on-year +56 +16 +208
Permanent jobs citing NIST 218 274 445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.68% 1.16% 1.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.37% 8.13% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 165 226 323
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £92,373 £93,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £99,375 £113,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £66,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.61% -4.64% +3.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,103 3,371 5,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.17% 14.25% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,276 2,488 3,642
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £102,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in London

NIST
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for NIST in London

NIST
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NIST in London

NIST
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +5 26 £80,000 +10.34% 14
West London +20 2 £55,000 +10.00% 1
South London -1 2 £73,750 +14.34% 1
East London - 2 £96,250 - 6
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (1.38%) Confluence
1 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 95 (43.58%) Azure
2 48 (22.02%) AWS
2 48 (22.02%) GCP
3 17 (7.80%) Entra ID
4 16 (7.34%) SaaS
5 13 (5.96%) Azure Sentinel
6 12 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (4.13%) PaaS
8 8 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.67%) GitHub
8 8 (3.67%) IaaS
9 6 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.75%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.83%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.83%) Serverless
11 3 (1.38%) Miro
12 2 (0.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (0.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 54 (24.77%) Firewall
2 49 (22.48%) Network Security
3 17 (7.80%) VPN
4 10 (4.59%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (2.75%) WAN
6 4 (1.83%) LAN
7 3 (1.38%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.92%) DNS
8 2 (0.92%) HTTP
8 2 (0.92%) Internet
8 2 (0.92%) NAS
8 2 (0.92%) SAN
9 1 (0.46%) BGP
9 1 (0.46%) MPLS
9 1 (0.46%) OSPF
9 1 (0.46%) SSL
9 1 (0.46%) Wireless
9 1 (0.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.83%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.92%) Big Data
3 2 (0.92%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.92%) Power BI
4 1 (0.46%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.46%) HBase
4 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (4.13%) JIRA
2 1 (0.46%) MLflow
2 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 86 (39.45%) Finance
2 74 (33.94%) Social Skills
3 43 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.01%) Legal
5 21 (9.63%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (7.34%) Retail
7 15 (6.88%) Banking
8 9 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (4.13%) Law
8 9 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.67%) Public Sector
10 7 (3.21%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.29%) Front Office
12 4 (1.83%) Marketing
13 3 (1.38%) Electronics
13 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 35 (16.06%) Analyst
2 33 (15.14%) Senior
3 31 (14.22%) Architect
4 30 (13.76%) Security Engineer
5 25 (11.47%) Security Manager
6 24 (11.01%) Security Analyst
7 22 (10.09%) Security Architect
8 15 (6.88%) Lead
9 14 (6.42%) Information Manager
9 14 (6.42%) Information Security Manager
10 12 (5.50%) Consultant
11 11 (5.05%) Information Analyst
11 11 (5.05%) Information Security Analyst
12 10 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (4.59%) Head of Security
12 10 (4.59%) Risk Manager
12 10 (4.59%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (4.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 9 (4.13%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.13%) Azure Blueprints
2 5 (2.29%) EDI
2 5 (2.29%) SLSA
3 3 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.38%) RESTful
3 3 (1.38%) YAML
4 2 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.46%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.46%) JSON
5 1 (0.46%) LangChain
5 1 (0.46%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.46%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 62 (28.44%) Security Posture
2 57 (26.15%) Management Information System
3 19 (8.72%) Cloud Native
4 18 (8.26%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.75%) Taxonomies
8 5 (2.29%) Blog
8 5 (2.29%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 3 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.38%) Machine to Machine
10 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.38%) PKI
10 3 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.92%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.50%) Windows
2 6 (2.75%) Linux
3 3 (1.38%) VMS
4 2 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (61.93%) Cybersecurity
2 118 (54.13%) Information Security
3 106 (48.62%) Risk Management
4 62 (28.44%) Incident Response
4 62 (28.44%) Vulnerability Management
5 53 (24.31%) Cloud Security
5 53 (24.31%) SIEM
6 46 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (17.89%) Security Architecture
8 38 (17.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 36 (16.51%) CI/CD
9 36 (16.51%) Identity Access Management
10 35 (16.06%) DevSecOps
10 35 (16.06%) Security Operations
11 34 (15.60%) Security Management
12 33 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (14.68%) Data Protection
14 30 (13.76%) Application Security
14 30 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (13.76%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 40 (18.35%) Python
2 34 (15.60%) PowerShell
3 15 (6.88%) Bash
4 9 (4.13%) Java
5 8 (3.67%) Perl
6 6 (2.75%) R
7 5 (2.29%) Go
7 5 (2.29%) SQL
8 4 (1.83%) C#
9 2 (0.92%) VBA
10 1 (0.46%) C++
10 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 79 (36.24%) CISSP
2 68 (31.19%) CISM
3 50 (22.94%) Degree
4 43 (19.72%) CRISC
5 18 (8.26%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (7.34%) CISA
6 16 (7.34%) Security Cleared
7 15 (6.88%) AWS Certification
8 14 (6.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 14 (6.42%) CCSP
9 13 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (5.96%) Master's Degree
9 13 (5.96%) SC Cleared
10 10 (4.59%) Azure Certification
10 10 (4.59%) SANS
11 8 (3.67%) CEH
12 7 (3.21%) GCIH
13 6 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 5 (2.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (57.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (37.16%) GDPR
3 51 (23.39%) PCI DSS
4 43 (19.72%) GRC
5 27 (12.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (10.55%) COBIT
7 20 (9.17%) SOC 2
8 15 (6.88%) NIST 800
9 13 (5.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 13 (5.96%) HIPAA
9 13 (5.96%) NCSC
9 13 (5.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (1.83%) SOC 1
12 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.46%) COSO
12 1 (0.46%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.46%) ITGC
System Software
1 6 (2.75%) Active Directory
1 6 (2.75%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.46%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (7.80%) Terraform
2 14 (6.42%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.59%) CASB
4 6 (2.75%) HP Fortify
4 6 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.75%) Progress Chef
4 6 (2.75%) Puppet
4 6 (2.75%) RSA Archer
5 4 (1.83%) Ansible
6 3 (1.38%) Istio
6 3 (1.38%) linkerd
6 3 (1.38%) Nessus
7 2 (0.92%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.92%) Grafana
8 1 (0.46%) SCCM
8 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (26.15%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.47%) Google
3 10 (4.59%) VMware
4 9 (4.13%) Splunk
5 6 (2.75%) Citrix
5 6 (2.75%) SAP
6 5 (2.29%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (2.29%) Okta
6 5 (2.29%) Tanium
7 4 (1.83%) Cisco
7 4 (1.83%) Oracle
7 4 (1.83%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.38%) Alibaba
8 3 (1.38%) Juniper
8 3 (1.38%) Qualys
8 3 (1.38%) Tenable
9 2 (0.92%) FireEye
9 2 (0.92%) MikroTik
9 2 (0.92%) SonicWALL