NIST Jobs in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 260 285 302
Rank change year-on-year +25 +17 +27
Permanent jobs citing NIST 107 93 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.66% 0.72% 0.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.23% 4.68% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 93 69 133
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £84,919 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £79,500
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,044 1,988 3,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.54% 15.32% 18.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 1,096 1,871
10th Percentile £25,450 £28,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,648 £82,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the North of England

NIST
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NIST in the North of England.

Salary trend for NIST in the North of England

NIST
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for NIST in the North of England

NIST
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the North of England 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
North West +4 70 £62,641 +26.55% 9
Yorkshire +47 23 £50,000 -23.08% 4
North East +2 14 £62,783 +41.88% 3
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (4.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (32.71%) Azure
2 28 (26.17%) AWS
3 16 (14.95%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (6.54%) SaaS
5 4 (3.74%) IaaS
5 4 (3.74%) PaaS
6 3 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.87%) GCP
7 2 (1.87%) GitHub
8 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.93%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.56%) Firewall
2 21 (19.63%) WAN
3 20 (18.69%) Network Security
4 19 (17.76%) SD-WAN
5 6 (5.61%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.87%) DNS
6 2 (1.87%) VoIP
6 2 (1.87%) Wireless
7 1 (0.93%) Internet
7 1 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.93%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.93%) MySQL
2 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (13.08%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.87%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.93%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.08%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.54%) Aerospace
5 6 (5.61%) Finance
6 5 (4.67%) Legal
7 4 (3.74%) Law
8 2 (1.87%) Retail
9 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (20.56%) Architect
1 22 (20.56%) Security Architect
2 20 (18.69%) Lead
3 18 (16.82%) Analyst
4 17 (15.89%) Lead Architect
4 17 (15.89%) Lead Security Architect
5 16 (14.95%) Senior
6 12 (11.21%) Security Manager
7 10 (9.35%) Security Analyst
7 10 (9.35%) Security Specialist
8 9 (8.41%) Consultant
8 9 (8.41%) Product Owner
8 9 (8.41%) Senior Product Owner
9 7 (6.54%) Security Consultant
9 7 (6.54%) Systems Manager
10 6 (5.61%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 4 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 4 (3.74%) Head of Information
11 4 (3.74%) Head of Information Security
11 4 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.80%) AWS CDK
2 2 (1.87%) SAML
3 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.93%) CSS
3 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.93%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.93%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.93%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (36.45%) Management Information System
2 17 (15.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 16 (14.95%) Cyber Threat
4 14 (13.08%) Security Posture
5 10 (9.35%) Product Ownership
6 7 (6.54%) Cyberattack
6 7 (6.54%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (5.61%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (4.67%) Data Centre
8 5 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (3.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.87%) FMCG
10 2 (1.87%) PKI
10 2 (1.87%) PMI
10 2 (1.87%) Smart Energy
11 1 (0.93%) CSOC
11 1 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.35%) Windows
2 9 (8.41%) Linux
3 3 (2.80%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.87%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.87%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.87%) Unix
4 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (71.03%) Cybersecurity
2 68 (63.55%) Information Security
3 34 (31.78%) Risk Management
4 28 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (26.17%) Security Architecture
5 24 (22.43%) Incident Response
5 24 (22.43%) SIEM
6 22 (20.56%) CI/CD
7 21 (19.63%) Project Management
8 20 (18.69%) Identity Management
8 20 (18.69%) Security Operations
9 19 (17.76%) OWASP
10 18 (16.82%) Coaching
11 17 (15.89%) Application Security
11 17 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (15.89%) Mentoring
11 17 (15.89%) Secure Coding
12 16 (14.95%) ISMS
13 13 (12.15%) Security Management
14 12 (11.21%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.35%) PowerShell
2 8 (7.48%) Python
3 5 (4.67%) Go
4 4 (3.74%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.87%) Bash
6 1 (0.93%) C++
6 1 (0.93%) Java
6 1 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 41 (38.32%) CISSP
2 37 (34.58%) CISM
3 23 (21.50%) Degree
4 17 (15.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 17 (15.89%) AWS Certification
4 17 (15.89%) Azure Certification
4 17 (15.89%) CCSK
4 17 (15.89%) CCSP
4 17 (15.89%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (7.48%) CISA
5 8 (7.48%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (5.61%) CEH
6 6 (5.61%) CRISC
6 6 (5.61%) PCI QSA
7 5 (4.67%) Security Cleared
8 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (3.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 4 (3.74%) ISSMP
9 3 (2.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (64.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (24.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (19.63%) PCI DSS
4 19 (17.76%) NCSC
5 16 (14.95%) GDPR
6 11 (10.28%) GRC
7 9 (8.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (7.48%) NIST 800
9 7 (6.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 5 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (3.74%) COBIT
11 4 (3.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (1.87%) ITGC
13 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (18.69%) Docker
2 4 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.87%) Terminal Services
3 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.93%) Firmware
4 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.93%) NFS
4 1 (0.93%) Snort
Systems Management
1 20 (18.69%) Kubernetes
2 19 (17.76%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (5.61%) Terraform
4 3 (2.80%) Ansible
4 3 (2.80%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.87%) SELinux
6 1 (0.93%) cPanel
6 1 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.93%) Kibana
6 1 (0.93%) logstash
Vendors
1 23 (21.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.41%) ServiceNow
2 9 (8.41%) Splunk
3 6 (5.61%) Cisco
4 5 (4.67%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.74%) Citrix
5 4 (3.74%) Dell
6 2 (1.87%) VMware
7 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.93%) Qualys
7 1 (0.93%) Snow
7 1 (0.93%) Tanium