NIST Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for NIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NIST over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 346 356
Rank change year-on-year +17 +10 +66
Permanent jobs citing NIST 553 520 683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.88% 0.95%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.74% 4.27% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 445 340 389
10th Percentile £38,850 £43,750 £39,155
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

NIST is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,636 12,178 12,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.50% 20.55% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,320 4,537 6,898
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

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 16 May 2024.

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 16 May 2024. 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
South East -11 161 £50,500 -22.31% 22
North of England +82 150 £57,500 -2.95% 20
South West +22 107 £63,500 -0.20% 17
North West +38 94 £60,000 +21.21% 12
Midlands -50 71 £66,500 +6.40% 23
West Midlands -41 59 £70,000 +9.38% 17
Scotland -54 40 £60,000 +8.67% 4
Yorkshire +67 32 £55,000 -15.38% 5
North East +14 24 £42,500 -14.36% 3
East of England +5 19 £72,500 +3.57% 10
East Midlands -3 9 £47,500 -15.93% 6
Isle of Man -18 4 £46,500 -17.33% 2
Wales +6 1 £85,000 +54.55% 2
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 13 (2.35%) IIS
2 3 (0.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.18%) Apache
3 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 135 (24.41%) Azure
2 105 (18.99%) AWS
3 67 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (3.62%) Cloud Computing
5 19 (3.44%) SaaS
6 17 (3.07%) Entra ID
6 17 (3.07%) IaaS
6 17 (3.07%) PaaS
7 13 (2.35%) Serverless
8 11 (1.99%) GCP
8 11 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (1.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 9 (1.63%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (1.63%) AWS CloudTrail
9 9 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 109 (19.71%) Network Security
2 79 (14.29%) Firewall
3 45 (8.14%) WAN
4 30 (5.42%) SD-WAN
5 25 (4.52%) VPN
6 22 (3.98%) Intrusion Detection
7 12 (2.17%) TCP/IP
8 11 (1.99%) LAN
9 10 (1.81%) Wireshark
10 9 (1.63%) Internet
11 6 (1.08%) DMZ
12 4 (0.72%) tcpdump
12 4 (0.72%) Wireless
13 3 (0.54%) HTTP
13 3 (0.54%) Modbus
13 3 (0.54%) PPP
13 3 (0.54%) VLAN
14 2 (0.36%) SAN
14 2 (0.36%) SMTP
14 2 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.72%) Power BI
3 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (2.17%) GitLab
2 10 (1.81%) JIRA
3 3 (0.54%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.54%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.54%) sqlmap
4 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.18%) Git
4 1 (0.18%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
General
1 117 (21.16%) Finance
2 108 (19.53%) Social Skills
3 68 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.59%) Retail
5 31 (5.61%) Legal
6 29 (5.24%) Military
7 28 (5.06%) Law
8 23 (4.16%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.62%) Aerospace
9 20 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.44%) Marketing
11 11 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.81%) Aviation
13 8 (1.45%) Automotive
13 8 (1.45%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.72%) Banking
15 3 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.36%) Advertising
16 2 (0.36%) Local Government
16 2 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (17.36%) Consultant
2 94 (17.00%) Security Consultant
3 90 (16.27%) Security Specialist
4 89 (16.09%) Analyst
5 80 (14.47%) Lead
6 77 (13.92%) Architect
7 74 (13.38%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 67 (12.12%) Senior
9 63 (11.39%) Security Analyst
10 61 (11.03%) Security Architect
11 54 (9.76%) Security Manager
12 53 (9.58%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 49 (8.86%) Security Engineer
14 36 (6.51%) Lead Architect
15 30 (5.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 25 (4.52%) Information Manager
16 25 (4.52%) Information Security Manager
17 23 (4.16%) Lead Security Architect
17 23 (4.16%) Senior Architect
18 19 (3.44%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.53%) Web Services
2 10 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (1.45%) OAuth
3 8 (1.45%) SAML
4 6 (1.08%) Middleware
5 3 (0.54%) REST
5 3 (0.54%) SOAP
6 2 (0.36%) OpenID
6 2 (0.36%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.18%) CSS
7 1 (0.18%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.18%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 132 (23.87%) Management Information System
2 54 (9.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 45 (8.14%) Security Posture
4 39 (7.05%) Cyber Threat
5 38 (6.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 33 (5.97%) Operational Technology
7 30 (5.42%) Cyber Defence
8 22 (3.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 21 (3.80%) Data Centre
10 18 (3.25%) Cyberattack
11 17 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (3.07%) Public Cloud
12 16 (2.89%) CESG
12 16 (2.89%) Product Ownership
13 14 (2.53%) Onboarding
14 12 (2.17%) Private Cloud
14 12 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.99%) SCADA
16 7 (1.27%) Cloud Native
16 7 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.96%) Windows
2 18 (3.25%) Linux
3 17 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.99%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.45%) Kali Linux
6 6 (1.08%) Android
6 6 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.72%) Unix
8 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (73.96%) Cybersecurity
2 295 (53.35%) Information Security
3 149 (26.94%) Risk Management
4 116 (20.98%) Security Architecture
5 108 (19.53%) SIEM
6 103 (18.63%) Security Operations
7 102 (18.44%) Vulnerability Management
8 89 (16.09%) Incident Response
9 88 (15.91%) Cloud Security
10 75 (13.56%) Security Management
11 69 (12.48%) OWASP
12 65 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
13 63 (11.39%) Application Security
14 60 (10.85%) Mentoring
15 57 (10.31%) Coaching
16 53 (9.58%) Information Assurance
17 49 (8.86%) Information Security Management
18 46 (8.32%) Computer Science
19 43 (7.78%) Project Management
20 42 (7.59%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 29 (5.24%) Python
2 19 (3.44%) PowerShell
3 9 (1.63%) SQL
4 6 (1.08%) C
4 6 (1.08%) Java
4 6 (1.08%) R
4 6 (1.08%) Scala
5 2 (0.36%) Bash
6 1 (0.18%) C++
6 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 178 (32.19%) CISSP
2 127 (22.97%) CISM
3 98 (17.72%) Security Cleared
4 95 (17.18%) Degree
5 54 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
6 53 (9.58%) AWS Certification
7 52 (9.40%) CCSP
8 51 (9.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 50 (9.04%) CISA
10 44 (7.96%) CCSK
11 40 (7.23%) Azure Certification
11 40 (7.23%) SC Cleared
12 38 (6.87%) DV Cleared
13 27 (4.88%) CRISC
14 20 (3.62%) CEH
15 17 (3.07%) CISMP
16 16 (2.89%) CompTIA Security+
16 16 (2.89%) SANS
17 15 (2.71%) PCI QSA
18 14 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (48.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 110 (19.89%) GRC
3 92 (16.64%) GDPR
4 88 (15.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 86 (15.55%) PCI DSS
6 70 (12.66%) Def Stans
7 68 (12.30%) NIST 800
8 50 (9.04%) NCSC
9 30 (5.42%) COBIT
9 30 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 29 (5.24%) JSP 440
11 26 (4.70%) RMADS
12 25 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 16 (2.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (2.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (1.63%) ISO 31000
15 9 (1.63%) SOC 2
16 7 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 6 (1.08%) COSO
17 6 (1.08%) HIPAA
System Software
1 30 (5.42%) Docker
2 21 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.81%) vSphere
4 6 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.54%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.18%) Snort
Systems Management
1 41 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
2 36 (6.51%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.53%) Terraform
4 11 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.63%) CASB
6 8 (1.45%) Nessus
7 6 (1.08%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (1.08%) Nmap
8 5 (0.90%) Suricata
9 3 (0.54%) SELinux
10 2 (0.36%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.18%) Ansible
11 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 92 (16.64%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.80%) Splunk
3 15 (2.71%) Qualys
4 12 (2.17%) Cisco
4 12 (2.17%) Tanium
5 11 (1.99%) Tripwire
6 10 (1.81%) SolarWinds
7 9 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.45%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.08%) Thycotic
10 5 (0.90%) Intel
10 5 (0.90%) Juniper
10 5 (0.90%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.72%) Citrix
11 4 (0.72%) Dell
11 4 (0.72%) VMware
12 3 (0.54%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.54%) Google
12 3 (0.54%) Oracle
13 2 (0.36%) ForgeRock