NIST Job Trends in the South East

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring NIST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 205 296
Rank change year-on-year -30 +91 -49
Permanent jobs citing NIST 85 87 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.54% 1.01% 0.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.03% 6.81% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 71 65 51
10th Percentile £62,500 £46,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £48,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £73,706 £71,991 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.38% -0.70% +3.57%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,690 1,278 2,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.76% 14.89% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,175 689 1,468
10th Percentile £31,100 £28,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £45,340
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +21.31% -9.32%
75th Percentile £70,250 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £76,625
England median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +1.74% +6.48% -6.09%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

NIST job vacancy trend in the South East

NIST
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing NIST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing NIST

NIST
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in the South East over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for NIST in the South East

NIST
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 July 2026. 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
Hampshire -39 33 £79,000 +14.91% 20
Thames Valley +30 28 £73,750 -7.81% 19
Oxfordshire -5 14 £72,500 -15.94% 8
Surrey -26 11 £75,000 +26.26% 8
Berkshire +27 9 £95,000 +106.52% 7
West Sussex -10 9 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Buckinghamshire -6 5 £82,500 - 4
East Sussex - 3 £70,000 -
Middlesex +25 1 £97,500 -
NIST
England

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 30 (35.29%) Azure
2 12 (14.12%) AWS
2 12 (14.12%) IaaS
2 12 (14.12%) PaaS
3 9 (10.59%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (9.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (4.71%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.53%) GCP
6 3 (3.53%) SaaS
7 2 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.18%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.18%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (22.35%) VPN
2 14 (16.47%) DNS
3 13 (15.29%) DHCP
3 13 (15.29%) Network Security
4 12 (14.12%) SNMP
4 12 (14.12%) SSL
4 12 (14.12%) WAN
5 11 (12.94%) BGP
5 11 (12.94%) IPsec
5 11 (12.94%) MPLS
5 11 (12.94%) SD-WAN
5 11 (12.94%) SSH
5 11 (12.94%) VLAN
6 10 (11.76%) FTP
6 10 (11.76%) HTTP
6 10 (11.76%) ICMP
7 4 (4.71%) Firewall
8 2 (2.35%) Broadband
8 2 (2.35%) LAN
8 2 (2.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.18%) Metadata
1 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.53%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) Git
General
1 25 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 23 (27.06%) Finance
3 15 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.41%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.06%) Legal
7 4 (4.71%) Banking
7 4 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.53%) Law
8 3 (3.53%) Retail
9 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Games
9 2 (2.35%) Military
10 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (24.71%) Architect
2 18 (21.18%) Security Manager
3 16 (18.82%) Security Architect
4 11 (12.94%) Consultant
4 11 (12.94%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 11 (12.94%) Network Architect
4 11 (12.94%) Network Security Architect
4 11 (12.94%) Security Consultant
5 9 (10.59%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 9 (10.59%) Lead
5 9 (10.59%) Security Assurance Manager
6 7 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Analyst
7 6 (7.06%) CloudOps Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) IT Manager
7 6 (7.06%) Operations Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Security Analyst
7 6 (7.06%) Senior
8 5 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.12%) SAML
2 11 (12.94%) OAuth
3 8 (9.41%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.35%) OpenID
5 1 (1.18%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.18%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.18%) Kafka
5 1 (1.18%) LDAP
5 1 (1.18%) Node.js
5 1 (1.18%) REST
5 1 (1.18%) RESTful
5 1 (1.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 12 (14.12%) Security Posture
3 9 (10.59%) Cloud Native
4 7 (8.24%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (8.24%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.88%) Operational Technology
5 5 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.71%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.71%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (3.53%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.35%) Blog
8 2 (2.35%) Cyberattack
8 2 (2.35%) e-Learning
8 2 (2.35%) Mobile Computing
8 2 (2.35%) PKI
9 1 (1.18%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.18%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.94%) Windows
2 6 (7.06%) Linux
2 6 (7.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (69.41%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (31.76%) Information Security
3 26 (30.59%) Risk Management
4 23 (27.06%) Cloud Security
5 22 (25.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (18.82%) Security Operations
8 15 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (16.47%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 13 (15.29%) Enterprise Architecture
10 13 (15.29%) Mentoring
10 13 (15.29%) Security Architecture
10 13 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (14.12%) Network Segmentation
12 11 (12.94%) CI/CD
12 11 (12.94%) Identity Access Management
12 11 (12.94%) Incident Response
12 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (11.76%) Analytics
13 10 (11.76%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.29%) PowerShell
2 12 (14.12%) Python
3 8 (9.41%) Bicep
4 2 (2.35%) SQL
5 1 (1.18%) Bash
5 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (24.71%) CISM
2 20 (23.53%) CISSP
3 16 (18.82%) Degree
4 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
5 11 (12.94%) CREST Certified
6 10 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (10.59%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (10.59%) SC Cleared
8 6 (7.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (5.88%) CEH
10 4 (4.71%) CCSP
10 4 (4.71%) CISA
10 4 (4.71%) CRISC
10 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared
11 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
11 3 (3.53%) CCNP
11 3 (3.53%) GIAC
11 3 (3.53%) ICAEW
11 3 (3.53%) OSCP
12 2 (2.35%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (67.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (21.18%) GDPR
2 18 (21.18%) PCI DSS
3 17 (20.00%) NCSC
4 14 (16.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (12.94%) GRC
5 11 (12.94%) SOC 2
6 9 (10.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 8 (9.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (4.71%) NIST 800
9 4 (4.71%) SLA
9 4 (4.71%) SOC 3
10 3 (3.53%) COBIT
11 2 (2.35%) ITGC
11 2 (2.35%) JSP 440
11 2 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
12 1 (1.18%) Def Stans
12 1 (1.18%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 9 (10.59%) Docker
2 7 (8.24%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.35%) UAG
3 2 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (16.47%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.76%) CASB
2 10 (11.76%) FortiGate
3 8 (9.41%) Terraform
4 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.35%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.18%) OpenView
6 1 (1.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 30 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.65%) Cisco
3 10 (11.76%) Palo Alto
4 5 (5.88%) Splunk
5 3 (3.53%) New Relic
5 3 (3.53%) Qualys
5 3 (3.53%) SolarWinds
5 3 (3.53%) Zerto
6 2 (2.35%) Becrypt
6 2 (2.35%) VMware
7 1 (1.18%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.18%) EMC
7 1 (1.18%) ExtraHop
7 1 (1.18%) HP
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle
7 1 (1.18%) Radware
7 1 (1.18%) Riverbed
7 1 (1.18%) Thales