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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 329 347
Rank change year-on-year +75 +18 +9
Permanent jobs citing NIST 437 553 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.10% 0.77% 0.88%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.52% 5.73% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 222 445 340
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,850 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,688 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,333 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £74,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.63% -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 6,706 9,651 12,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.89% 13.52% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,234 6,335 4,537
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,550 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
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 17 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 17 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 +134 176 £62,500 -6.02% 34
West Midlands +104 124 £62,500 -10.71% 27
North of England -15 87 £60,500 +5.22% 89
South East +4 76 £65,000 +28.71% 125
North West -36 58 £62,500 +4.17% 44
East Midlands +63 52 £62,500 +31.58% 6
South West +55 50 £66,250 +4.33% 63
Scotland +107 29 £74,870 +24.78% 22
Yorkshire +47 17 £57,500 +4.55% 32
North East +29 12 £57,500 +35.29% 14
East of England +39 11 £46,753 -35.51% 21
Northern Ireland - 3 £76,092 - 9
Wales +42 2 £75,574 -11.09% 3
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -
Isle of Man +12 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 2 (0.46%) IBM Domino
1 2 (0.46%) IIS
1 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
1 2 (0.46%) TPMS
2 1 (0.23%) Confluence
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 63 (14.42%) Azure
2 40 (9.15%) AWS
3 24 (5.49%) Entra ID
4 21 (4.81%) PaaS
5 17 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (3.89%) SaaS
6 15 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.52%) IaaS
8 9 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (1.83%) GCP
10 6 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.92%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.92%) Serverless
12 2 (0.46%) Asana
12 2 (0.46%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (0.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.46%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.46%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 79 (18.08%) Firewall
2 43 (9.84%) Network Security
3 30 (6.86%) VPN
4 25 (5.72%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (1.60%) DNS
6 6 (1.37%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.92%) HTTP
7 4 (0.92%) VLAN
7 4 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.69%) WAN
9 2 (0.46%) DHCP
9 2 (0.46%) DMZ
9 2 (0.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.46%) SMTP
9 2 (0.46%) Wireless
10 1 (0.23%) Internet
10 1 (0.23%) Modbus
10 1 (0.23%) SAN
10 1 (0.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (0.92%) Power BI
3 3 (0.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.46%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.23%) DB2
5 1 (0.23%) MySQL
5 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (1.37%) JIRA
2 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.23%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
General
1 86 (19.68%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.96%) Finance
3 46 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.01%) Legal
5 20 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.75%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.06%) Electronics
7 9 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.83%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.60%) Law
10 6 (1.37%) Local Government
10 6 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.14%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.14%) Retail
12 3 (0.69%) Banking
12 3 (0.69%) Marketing
13 2 (0.46%) Automotive
13 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.23%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 204 (46.68%) Security Engineer
2 153 (35.01%) Principal Engineer
3 147 (33.64%) Principal Security Engineer
4 127 (29.06%) Analyst
5 120 (27.46%) Security Analyst
6 87 (19.91%) Principal Security Analyst
6 87 (19.91%) Product Analyst
7 60 (13.73%) Product Engineer
8 57 (13.04%) Lead
9 49 (11.21%) Architect
10 35 (8.01%) Security Architect
11 29 (6.64%) Security Manager
12 27 (6.18%) Senior
13 18 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (4.12%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 16 (3.66%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 15 (3.43%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 14 (3.20%) Information Analyst
16 14 (3.20%) Information Manager
16 14 (3.20%) Information Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.97%) YAML
2 8 (1.83%) SailPoint
3 5 (1.14%) OAuth
3 5 (1.14%) OpenID
3 5 (1.14%) SAML
4 2 (0.46%) JSON
4 2 (0.46%) JWT
4 2 (0.46%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.46%) LDAP
4 2 (0.46%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.46%) REST
4 2 (0.46%) SOAP
5 1 (0.23%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.23%) Kafka
5 1 (0.23%) Middleware
5 1 (0.23%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 61 (13.96%) Security Posture
2 55 (12.59%) Management Information System
3 20 (4.58%) Cyber Threat
4 14 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.20%) Social Media
4 14 (3.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 9 (2.06%) Cyber Security Posture
5 9 (2.06%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
6 8 (1.83%) Operational Technology
7 7 (1.60%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.60%) PKI
8 5 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (0.92%) Cyberattack
9 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.69%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.95%) Windows
2 14 (3.20%) Windows Vista
3 6 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.14%) Linux
5 3 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.46%) 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
1 328 (75.06%) Cybersecurity
2 265 (60.64%) Information Security
3 248 (56.75%) Risk Management
4 166 (37.99%) Security Testing
5 156 (35.70%) Project Management
6 149 (34.10%) Cyber Resilience
7 77 (17.62%) Vulnerability Management
8 63 (14.42%) Incident Response
9 58 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (12.81%) Cloud Security
11 53 (12.13%) Mentoring
12 51 (11.67%) SIEM
13 49 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (10.76%) Security Architecture
15 45 (10.30%) Computer Science
16 38 (8.70%) Roadmaps
17 36 (8.24%) DevOps
17 36 (8.24%) TOGAF
18 35 (8.01%) Coaching
18 35 (8.01%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.41%) PowerShell
2 23 (5.26%) Python
3 13 (2.97%) SQL
4 10 (2.29%) Java
5 8 (1.83%) Bash
6 7 (1.60%) C#
7 3 (0.69%) C++
7 3 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.46%) Go
9 1 (0.23%) Bicep
9 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 250 (57.21%) CISM
2 245 (56.06%) CISSP
3 221 (50.57%) Degree
4 153 (35.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 151 (34.55%) CESG Certified Professional
6 41 (9.38%) Security Cleared
7 38 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (8.24%) CISA
9 35 (8.01%) CEH
10 33 (7.55%) Master's Degree
11 27 (6.18%) SC Cleared
12 21 (4.81%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (4.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 17 (3.89%) CRISC
15 15 (3.43%) DBS Check
16 13 (2.97%) GIAC
17 10 (2.29%) Azure Certification
18 9 (2.06%) AWS Certification
18 9 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 349 (79.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 155 (35.47%) RMADS
3 151 (34.55%) JSP 440
4 87 (19.91%) GDPR
5 60 (13.73%) NCSC
6 36 (8.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 33 (7.55%) COBIT
7 33 (7.55%) PCI DSS
8 21 (4.81%) GRC
9 19 (4.35%) Accessibility
10 14 (3.20%) Def Stans
11 13 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (2.97%) NIST 800
12 11 (2.52%) HIPAA
12 11 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (1.83%) SOC 2
14 6 (1.37%) QA
15 5 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.46%) ITGC
17 1 (0.23%) GLBA
System Software
1 17 (3.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.83%) Docker
3 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) Firmware
4 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.23%) NFS
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (1.83%) Kubernetes
1 8 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (1.60%) Nessus
2 7 (1.60%) Terraform
3 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.92%) FortiGate
4 4 (0.92%) QRadar
5 3 (0.69%) Ansible
6 2 (0.46%) Argo
6 2 (0.46%) Graylog
6 2 (0.46%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.23%) cPanel
7 1 (0.23%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 65 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.75%) Cisco
3 7 (1.60%) Palo Alto
3 7 (1.60%) Qualys
3 7 (1.60%) Splunk
4 6 (1.37%) Tenable
5 5 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (1.14%) Google
6 3 (0.69%) ForgeRock
6 3 (0.69%) Fortinet
6 3 (0.69%) VMware
7 2 (0.46%) Databricks
7 2 (0.46%) Meraki
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle
7 2 (0.46%) Rapid7
7 2 (0.46%) Varonis
8 1 (0.23%) Dell
8 1 (0.23%) IBM
8 1 (0.23%) McAfee
8 1 (0.23%) Sophos