NIST Jobs in Tyne and Wear

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 82 89
Rank change year-on-year +33 +7 0
Permanent jobs citing NIST 8 23 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.53% 1.60% 0.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.20% 8.27% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 7 23 2
10th Percentile £46,875 £36,250 £43,163
25th Percentile £50,313 £37,500 £44,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £49,625
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -14.36% -54.89%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,968 £54,719
90th Percentile £70,750 £84,919 £56,388
North East median annual salary £57,500 £42,500 £49,625
% change year-on-year +35.29% -14.36% -54.89%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 87 278 256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 16.67% 19.36% 28.01%
Number of salaries quoted 57 204 70
10th Percentile £23,800 £24,960 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £41,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,850 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.19% -22.09% +42.86%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,741 £67,188
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £88,750
North East median annual salary £61,000 £43,712 £47,500
% change year-on-year +39.55% -7.97% +25.99%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Tyne and Wear

NIST
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NIST in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for NIST in Tyne and Wear

NIST
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NIST in Tyne and Wear

NIST
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 30 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +27 8 £57,500 +35.29% 15
NIST
North East

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
1 7 (87.50%) Intrusion Detection
1 7 (87.50%) Network Security
1 7 (87.50%) VPN
General
1 6 (75.00%) Manufacturing
1 6 (75.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Security Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) IT Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (12.50%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Business Continuity
1 7 (87.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (75.00%) BCP
2 6 (75.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 6 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (75.00%) SIEM
2 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CISM
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) CEH
2 1 (12.50%) CISA
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) GIAC
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) GDPR
1 8 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS