NIST Jobs in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 177 297
Rank change year-on-year -54 +120 -54
Permanent jobs citing NIST 76 112 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.65% 1.47% 0.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.62% 8.41% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 69 96 51
10th Percentile £46,750 £41,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.23% -2.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,438 £76,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,125 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% +1.85% +2.20%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,646 1,332 2,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.17% 17.54% 19.65%
Number of salaries quoted 980 796 1,325
10th Percentile £27,300 £27,760 £29,252
25th Percentile £30,563 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +10.00% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £76,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the Midlands

NIST
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for NIST in the Midlands

NIST
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in the Midlands

NIST
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
West Midlands -28 67 £72,500 +11.54% 10
East Midlands -37 6 £62,000 +9.73%
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.95%) AWS
2 17 (22.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 17 (22.37%) AWS CloudFormation
2 17 (22.37%) AWS CloudTrail
3 16 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 16 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (21.05%) Amazon S3
3 16 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (21.05%) Serverless
3 16 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (11.84%) Azure
5 7 (9.21%) AWS Control Tower
6 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.32%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.32%) GCP
8 1 (1.32%) IaaS
8 1 (1.32%) PaaS
8 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.47%) Firewall
2 8 (10.53%) WAN
3 7 (9.21%) VPN
4 3 (3.95%) LAN
4 3 (3.95%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.63%) SAN
6 1 (1.32%) Network Security
6 1 (1.32%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Burp Suite
1 4 (5.26%) Metasploit
1 4 (5.26%) sqlmap
General
1 21 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.37%) Finance
3 9 (11.84%) Retail
4 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.53%) Legal
5 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.63%) Automotive
6 2 (2.63%) Banking
6 2 (2.63%) Law
6 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Advertising
7 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) Security Engineer
2 15 (19.74%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (17.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 10 (13.16%) Analyst
5 8 (10.53%) Lead
5 8 (10.53%) Security Analyst
5 8 (10.53%) Security Manager
6 6 (7.89%) Consultant
6 6 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Information Manager
6 6 (7.89%) Information Security Manager
6 6 (7.89%) Operations Analyst
6 6 (7.89%) Python Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Security Consultant
6 6 (7.89%) Security Operations Analyst
7 5 (6.58%) Information Officer
7 5 (6.58%) Information Security Officer
7 5 (6.58%) Security Officer
8 4 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 4 (5.26%) Head of Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.32%) LDAP
1 1 (1.32%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.74%) Operational Technology
2 14 (18.42%) Management Information System
3 12 (15.79%) PropTech
4 8 (10.53%) SCADA
5 7 (9.21%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (7.89%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (7.89%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.95%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (3.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.63%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 2 (2.63%) IoT
8 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.32%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Windows
2 6 (7.89%) Linux
3 2 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (55.26%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (53.95%) Information Security
3 26 (34.21%) Incident Response
3 26 (34.21%) Risk Management
4 17 (22.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (22.37%) Threat Modelling
5 13 (17.11%) DevSecOps
5 13 (17.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (14.47%) Security Operations
8 10 (13.16%) Risk Assessment
9 9 (11.84%) Cloud Security
9 9 (11.84%) Decision-Making
9 9 (11.84%) Information Security Management
9 9 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (11.84%) Security Management
10 8 (10.53%) Data Security
10 8 (10.53%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 7 (9.21%) Incident Management
11 7 (9.21%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.37%) Python
2 1 (1.32%) Bash
2 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (43.42%) CISSP
2 31 (40.79%) CISM
3 20 (26.32%) AWS Certification
4 17 (22.37%) Degree
5 16 (21.05%) CISA
6 13 (17.11%) Security Cleared
7 8 (10.53%) CRISC
8 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
9 5 (6.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 5 (6.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 5 (6.58%) PCI QSA
10 4 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (3.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (3.95%) Azure Certification
11 3 (3.95%) CCSK
11 3 (3.95%) CCSP
11 3 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
11 3 (3.95%) SSCP
12 2 (2.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (81.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (25.00%) GDPR
3 16 (21.05%) PCI DSS
4 9 (11.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (10.53%) NIST 800
6 4 (5.26%) GRC
7 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 3 (3.95%) JSP 440
7 3 (3.95%) NCSC
8 2 (2.63%) COBIT
8 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (2.63%) ISO 22301
8 2 (2.63%) ISO 31000
9 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.32%) ISO 9001
9 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.32%) RMADS
9 1 (1.32%) SLA
9 1 (1.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (3.95%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.95%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.95%) Rapid7
3 2 (2.63%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.32%) Facebook
4 1 (1.32%) Google
4 1 (1.32%) Okta
4 1 (1.32%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.32%) Thycotic