NIST Job Trends in Northampton

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northampton citing NIST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	45	29	36
Rank change year-on-year	-16	+7	-
Permanent jobs citing NIST	6	3	2
As % of all permanent jobs in Northampton	0.90%	1.53%	0.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	10.71%	6.98%	11.11%
Number of salaries quoted	5	0	0
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£80,000	-	-
Northamptonshire median annual salary	£80,000	-	-

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northampton

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 citing quality assurance or compliance skills in Northampton.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing quality assurance or compliance skills	56	43	18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton	8.37%	21.94%	4.53%
Number of salaries quoted	44	28	12
10^th Percentile	£28,500	-	£26,625
25^th Percentile	£34,313	£31,250	£30,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£42,500	£37,500	£42,500
Median % change year-on-year	+13.33%	-11.76%	-22.73%
75^th Percentile	£60,000	£50,000	£56,375
90^th Percentile	£75,875	£74,395	£63,125
Northamptonshire median annual salary	£40,000	£35,000	£47,500
% change year-on-year	+14.29%	-26.32%	-9.52%

NIST Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

NIST Salary Trend in Northampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing NIST.

NIST Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 10 November 2026, job vacancies citing NIST also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Northampton region citing NIST.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cloud Security	100.0%	6
1	Cybersecurity	100.0%	6
1	Data Protection	100.0%	6
1	Identity Access Management	100.0%	6
1	ISO/IEC 27001	100.0%	6
1	Multi-Factor Authentication	100.0%	6
1	SaaS	100.0%	6
1	Security Monitoring	100.0%	6
1	Vulnerability Management	100.0%	6
1	Vulnerability Remediation	100.0%	6
1	Windows	100.0%	6
1	Zero Trust	100.0%	6
13	Configuration Management	16.7%	1
13	Cyber Essentials	16.7%	1
13	Data Loss Prevention	16.7%	1
13	Data Sharing	16.7%	1
13	Incident Response	16.7%	1
13	Network Security	16.7%	1
13	Security Operations	16.7%	1

NIST Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Quality Assurance & Compliance

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	ISO/IEC 27001	100.0%	6
2	Cyber Essentials	16.7%	1