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

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 271 274
Rank change year-on-year +81 +3 +210
Permanent jobs citing NIST 242 272 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.86% 1.15% 1.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.44% 8.10% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 163 224 317
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,504 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £107,500 £92,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £114,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £67,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.21% -4.29% +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 2,116 3,360 5,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.27% 14.19% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,274 2,464 3,564
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £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 £112,500 £112,500 £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 20 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 20 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 +7 27 £77,500 +3.33% 26
South London +4 8 £73,750 +14.34% 2
West London +26 7 £55,000 +10.00% 5
East London - 7 £96,250 - 6
North London - 4 - -
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 (1.24%) Confluence
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.24%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (37.60%) Azure
2 67 (27.69%) AWS
3 45 (18.60%) GCP
4 26 (10.74%) Serverless
5 24 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (7.02%) Entra ID
7 16 (6.61%) SaaS
8 14 (5.79%) Azure Sentinel
9 13 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.13%) PaaS
11 9 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (3.31%) GitHub
12 8 (3.31%) IaaS
13 7 (2.89%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (2.48%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (1.65%) Azure AKS
15 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
16 3 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
16 3 (1.24%) Miro
17 2 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 54 (22.31%) Firewall
2 48 (19.83%) Network Security
3 23 (9.50%) SSL
4 22 (9.09%) Broadband
4 22 (9.09%) SSH
5 18 (7.44%) VPN
6 10 (4.13%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (2.48%) WAN
8 4 (1.65%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.24%) LAN
9 3 (1.24%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.83%) DNS
10 2 (0.83%) HTTP
10 2 (0.83%) NAS
10 2 (0.83%) SAN
11 1 (0.41%) BGP
11 1 (0.41%) Internet
11 1 (0.41%) MPLS
11 1 (0.41%) OSPF
11 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.65%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.83%) Big Data
3 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.83%) Power BI
4 1 (0.41%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.41%) HBase
4 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (3.72%) JIRA
2 1 (0.41%) MLflow
2 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 100 (41.32%) Social Skills
2 87 (35.95%) Finance
3 46 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.92%) Legal
5 23 (9.50%) Banking
6 21 (8.68%) Retail
7 18 (7.44%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (4.13%) Law
9 9 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.31%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.89%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.07%) Front Office
12 5 (2.07%) Local Government
13 4 (1.65%) Marketing
14 3 (1.24%) Electronics
14 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (13.64%) Analyst
2 32 (13.22%) Architect
3 30 (12.40%) Security Engineer
4 29 (11.98%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (11.98%) Senior
5 25 (10.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (9.92%) Security Manager
7 23 (9.50%) Security Analyst
7 23 (9.50%) Security Architect
8 16 (6.61%) Lead
9 14 (5.79%) Information Manager
9 14 (5.79%) Information Security Manager
10 12 (4.96%) Consultant
11 11 (4.55%) Information Analyst
11 11 (4.55%) Information Security Analyst
12 10 (4.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 10 (4.13%) Head of Security
12 10 (4.13%) Risk Manager
12 10 (4.13%) Security Specialist
12 10 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.33%) RESTful
2 22 (9.09%) Web Services
3 6 (2.48%) Azure Blueprints
4 5 (2.07%) EDI
4 5 (2.07%) SLSA
5 4 (1.65%) YAML
6 3 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.83%) JSON
8 1 (0.41%) Hugging Face
8 1 (0.41%) LangChain
8 1 (0.41%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.41%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 80 (33.06%) Management Information System
2 64 (26.45%) Security Posture
3 41 (16.94%) Cyber Threat
4 25 (10.33%) Onboarding
4 25 (10.33%) PKI
5 22 (9.09%) Cyberattack
6 16 (6.61%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.31%) Taxonomies
8 5 (2.07%) Blog
8 5 (2.07%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.65%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.24%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.24%) Machine to Machine
10 3 (1.24%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.79%) Windows
2 6 (2.48%) Linux
3 3 (1.24%) VMS
3 3 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (66.12%) Cybersecurity
2 122 (50.41%) Information Security
3 109 (45.04%) Risk Management
4 61 (25.21%) Incident Response
5 59 (24.38%) Vulnerability Management
6 55 (22.73%) SIEM
7 50 (20.66%) Cloud Security
7 50 (20.66%) DevOps
8 45 (18.60%) Roadmaps
9 42 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (16.53%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 36 (14.88%) Security Architecture
11 36 (14.88%) Security Management
12 34 (14.05%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 33 (13.64%) CI/CD
13 33 (13.64%) Data Protection
14 32 (13.22%) Agile
14 32 (13.22%) DevSecOps
14 32 (13.22%) Identity Access Management
14 32 (13.22%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 59 (24.38%) Python
2 32 (13.22%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.96%) Bash
4 9 (3.72%) Java
5 8 (3.31%) Perl
6 6 (2.48%) R
7 5 (2.07%) Go
7 5 (2.07%) SQL
8 4 (1.65%) C#
9 2 (0.83%) VBA
10 1 (0.41%) C++
10 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 80 (33.06%) CISSP
2 71 (29.34%) CISM
3 57 (23.55%) Degree
4 43 (17.77%) CRISC
5 22 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (8.68%) Master's Degree
7 19 (7.85%) CCSP
8 18 (7.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 16 (6.61%) Security Cleared
10 14 (5.79%) AWS Certification
10 14 (5.79%) CISA
10 14 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (5.79%) SC Cleared
11 9 (3.72%) SANS
12 8 (3.31%) Azure Certification
12 8 (3.31%) CEH
13 7 (2.89%) GCIH
14 6 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (2.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 5 (2.07%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (64.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 80 (33.06%) GDPR
3 49 (20.25%) PCI DSS
4 43 (17.77%) GRC
5 27 (11.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (9.50%) COBIT
7 22 (9.09%) SOC 2
8 17 (7.02%) NIST 800
9 15 (6.20%) NCSC
10 14 (5.79%) HIPAA
11 12 (4.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (4.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (2.48%) QA
13 6 (2.48%) SOC 1
14 5 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (1.65%) Accessibility
15 4 (1.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.41%) COSO
16 1 (0.41%) EU AI Act
16 1 (0.41%) ITGC
System Software
1 30 (12.40%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.48%) Docker
3 4 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.83%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (14.88%) Terraform
2 11 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.31%) RSA Archer
4 7 (2.89%) CASB
5 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.48%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.48%) Puppet
6 5 (2.07%) HP Fortify
7 4 (1.65%) Ansible
8 3 (1.24%) Istio
8 3 (1.24%) linkerd
8 3 (1.24%) Nessus
9 2 (0.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.83%) Grafana
9 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 58 (23.97%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.09%) Thales
3 21 (8.68%) Google
4 9 (3.72%) Splunk
4 9 (3.72%) VMware
5 6 (2.48%) Citrix
5 6 (2.48%) SAP
6 5 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (2.07%) Okta
6 5 (2.07%) Tanium
7 4 (1.65%) Cisco
7 4 (1.65%) Oracle
7 4 (1.65%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.65%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.24%) Alibaba
8 3 (1.24%) Juniper
8 3 (1.24%) Qualys
8 3 (1.24%) Tenable
9 2 (0.83%) FireEye
9 2 (0.83%) SonicWALL