NIST Jobs in the UK excluding London

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 335 351
Rank change year-on-year +80 +16 +2
Permanent jobs citing NIST 442 549 502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.11% 0.73% 0.88%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.73% 5.62% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 204 445 343
10th Percentile £46,875 £38,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,063 £45,000 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,625 £97,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,564 9,770 11,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.54% 13.05% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,101 6,367 4,478
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,047 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,250 £32,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £79,400
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Midlands +129 173 £60,750 -13.21% 24
West Midlands +104 122 £59,000 -17.19% 15
South East +11 84 £67,500 +33.66% 62
North of England -35 75 £60,000 +4.35% 67
South West +64 55 £67,500 -15.63% 55
East Midlands +85 51 £62,500 +31.58% 9
North West -48 45 £61,000 +1.67% 43
Scotland +112 29 £74,870 +24.78% 24
East of England +52 19 £42,085 -41.95% 23
Yorkshire +38 16 £57,500 +4.55% 14
North East +40 14 £57,500 +35.29% 11
Wales +42 2 £75,574 -11.09% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £76,092 - 5
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 7
Isle of Man +11 1 - -
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (0.68%) IIS
1 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.45%) TPMS
3 1 (0.23%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 70 (15.84%) AWS
2 67 (15.16%) Azure
3 32 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
3 32 (7.24%) Serverless
4 27 (6.11%) Entra ID
5 21 (4.75%) PaaS
6 18 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (2.94%) SaaS
9 10 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 10 (2.26%) GCP
10 9 (2.04%) IaaS
11 7 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.13%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.68%) AWS Fargate
14 2 (0.45%) Amazon SageMaker
14 2 (0.45%) Asana
14 2 (0.45%) Cloudflare
14 2 (0.45%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 71 (16.06%) Firewall
2 47 (10.63%) Network Security
3 33 (7.47%) VPN
4 26 (5.88%) Broadband
4 26 (5.88%) SSH
4 26 (5.88%) SSL
5 19 (4.30%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (1.81%) DNS
7 4 (0.90%) HTTP
7 4 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.90%) VLAN
7 4 (0.90%) WAN
7 4 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.68%) DHCP
8 3 (0.68%) LAN
8 3 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.45%) DMZ
9 2 (0.45%) SMTP
9 2 (0.45%) Wireless
10 1 (0.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.36%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.13%) Power BI
3 3 (0.68%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.23%) DB2
5 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (1.36%) JIRA
2 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.23%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
General
1 104 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 63 (14.25%) Finance
3 37 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.56%) Legal
5 20 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (2.04%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (1.81%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.58%) Law
9 7 (1.58%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.36%) Electronics
10 6 (1.36%) Local Government
11 3 (0.68%) Banking
11 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.68%) Marketing
11 3 (0.68%) Retail
12 2 (0.45%) Automotive
12 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 205 (46.38%) Security Engineer
2 153 (34.62%) Principal Engineer
3 147 (33.26%) Principal Security Engineer
4 123 (27.83%) Analyst
5 119 (26.92%) Security Analyst
6 87 (19.68%) Principal Security Analyst
6 87 (19.68%) Product Analyst
7 63 (14.25%) Lead
8 60 (13.57%) Product Engineer
9 43 (9.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 39 (8.82%) Architect
11 27 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (5.88%) Security Manager
13 25 (5.66%) Security Architect
14 23 (5.20%) Senior
15 16 (3.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 15 (3.39%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 12 (2.71%) Cloud Security Lead
17 12 (2.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 12 (2.71%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.88%) RESTful
1 26 (5.88%) Web Services
2 15 (3.39%) YAML
3 11 (2.49%) SailPoint
4 7 (1.58%) OAuth
4 7 (1.58%) OpenID
4 7 (1.58%) SAML
5 3 (0.68%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.45%) JSON
6 2 (0.45%) JWT
6 2 (0.45%) Keycloak
6 2 (0.45%) LDAP
6 2 (0.45%) REST
6 2 (0.45%) SOAP
7 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.23%) Kafka
7 1 (0.23%) Middleware
7 1 (0.23%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 72 (16.29%) Management Information System
2 46 (10.41%) Security Posture
3 45 (10.18%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (7.24%) PKI
5 29 (6.56%) Cyberattack
5 29 (6.56%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (1.81%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.81%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (1.36%) Operational Technology
8 6 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.36%) Social Media
8 6 (1.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 5 (1.13%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.30%) Windows
2 7 (1.58%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.36%) Windows Vista
4 5 (1.13%) Linux
5 3 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.23%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.23%) Unix
7 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (75.79%) Cybersecurity
2 243 (54.98%) Information Security
3 240 (54.30%) Risk Management
4 168 (38.01%) Security Testing
5 156 (35.29%) Project Management
6 149 (33.71%) Cyber Resilience
7 70 (15.84%) Vulnerability Management
8 65 (14.71%) Roadmaps
9 58 (13.12%) DevOps
10 54 (12.22%) Incident Response
11 49 (11.09%) Mentoring
12 48 (10.86%) Cloud Security
12 48 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (9.95%) SIEM
13 44 (9.95%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 41 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (8.14%) Computer Science
15 36 (8.14%) Security Architecture
16 34 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
17 33 (7.47%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (11.54%) Python
2 31 (7.01%) PowerShell
3 17 (3.85%) SQL
4 10 (2.26%) Bash
4 10 (2.26%) Java
5 7 (1.58%) C#
6 4 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.45%) C++
8 1 (0.23%) Bicep
8 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 235 (53.17%) CISM
2 231 (52.26%) CISSP
3 210 (47.51%) Degree
4 153 (34.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 151 (34.16%) CESG Certified Professional
6 38 (8.60%) Security Cleared
7 29 (6.56%) CISA
7 29 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (6.33%) Master's Degree
9 27 (6.11%) CEH
10 25 (5.66%) SC Cleared
11 16 (3.62%) CRISC
12 12 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (2.71%) GIAC
13 11 (2.49%) Azure Certification
14 10 (2.26%) AWS Certification
14 10 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
15 9 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (1.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 353 (79.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 155 (35.07%) RMADS
3 151 (34.16%) JSP 440
4 71 (16.06%) GDPR
5 60 (13.57%) NCSC
6 30 (6.79%) COBIT
6 30 (6.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (5.88%) PCI DSS
8 19 (4.30%) Accessibility
9 17 (3.85%) GRC
10 12 (2.71%) HIPAA
10 12 (2.71%) NIST 800
11 10 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (2.26%) Def Stans
11 10 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 8 (1.81%) SOC 2
13 7 (1.58%) QA
14 4 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.45%) ITGC
16 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 42 (9.50%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.04%) Docker
3 1 (0.23%) Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.23%) NFS
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (7.24%) Terraform
2 9 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.58%) Nessus
4 6 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.13%) QRadar
6 4 (0.90%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.68%) Ansible
8 2 (0.45%) Argo
8 2 (0.45%) Graylog
8 2 (0.45%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.23%) cPanel
9 1 (0.23%) Kibana
9 1 (0.23%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.23%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 68 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.88%) Thales
3 11 (2.49%) Cisco
4 9 (2.04%) Splunk
5 7 (1.58%) Palo Alto
5 7 (1.58%) Qualys
6 6 (1.36%) Google
6 6 (1.36%) Tenable
7 5 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (1.13%) ForgeRock
8 3 (0.68%) Databricks
8 3 (0.68%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.68%) Oracle
9 2 (0.45%) Meraki
9 2 (0.45%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.45%) Sophos
9 2 (0.45%) Varonis
9 2 (0.45%) VMware
10 1 (0.23%) IBM
10 1 (0.23%) LogRhythm