NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring NIST 800 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 655 619 796
Rank change year-on-year -36 +177 +45
Permanent jobs citing NIST 800 57 28 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.066% 0.086%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.62% 0.40% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 28 16 57
10th Percentile £51,750 £52,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,563 £61,875 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,750 £76,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.66% +1.67% -
75th Percentile £98,125 £88,750 £107,500
90th Percentile £132,875 £121,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £61,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.20% -15.52% +3.57%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

NIST 800 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,262 6,941 13,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.37% 16.48% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,455 3,926 9,205
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -5.00%

NIST 800
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NIST 800 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

NIST 800 job vacancy trend in the UK

NIST 800
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NIST 800.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NIST 800

NIST 800
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST 800 over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Salary histogram for NIST 800 in the UK

NIST 800
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST 800 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -39 57 £76,750 -0.97% 24
London +13 43 £90,000 +12.50% 12
Work from Home +10 13 £90,000 +7.46% 43
UK excluding London -81 12 £55,000 -10.20% 18
South East -24 4 £55,000 +11.11% 8
South West -49 4 £55,000 - 5
North West -28 3 - - 1
North of England -56 3 - - 1
East of England - 1 - - 2

NIST 800
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (7.02%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.56%) AWS
1 14 (24.56%) Azure
2 12 (21.05%) GCP
3 3 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.51%) SaaS
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.75%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) Network Security
2 2 (3.51%) InfiniBand
3 1 (1.75%) S/MIME
3 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) Tableau
2 3 (5.26%) Power BI
General
1 26 (45.61%) Finance
2 21 (36.84%) Retail
2 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 19 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (29.82%) Banking
4 17 (29.82%) Local Government
5 8 (14.04%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.26%) Aviation
8 2 (3.51%) Legal
9 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Law
9 1 (1.75%) Military
9 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (47.37%) Consultant
2 21 (36.84%) Senior
3 17 (29.82%) Senior Consultant
4 9 (15.79%) Security Consultant
5 8 (14.04%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 7 (12.28%) Lead
7 4 (7.02%) Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Security Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Security Specialist
8 3 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Information Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Information Risk Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Metrics Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Risk Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Security Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 3 (5.26%) SOC Manager
9 2 (3.51%) Information Security Specialist
9 2 (3.51%) Information Specialist
9 2 (3.51%) IT Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) PyTorch
1 2 (3.51%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.75%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 29 (50.88%) Security Posture
2 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (5.26%) PKI
4 2 (3.51%) CUDA
4 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) Smartcard
5 1 (1.75%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (77.19%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (64.91%) Information Security
3 34 (59.65%) Risk Management
4 22 (38.60%) Mentoring
5 20 (35.09%) Project Management
6 18 (31.58%) Internal Audit
7 17 (29.82%) Target Operating Model
8 11 (19.30%) Agile
8 11 (19.30%) Matrix Organization
9 8 (14.04%) Cloud Security
9 8 (14.04%) DAMA
9 8 (14.04%) DAMA DMBOK
9 8 (14.04%) Data Management
10 7 (12.28%) Change Management
10 7 (12.28%) Design Patterns
10 7 (12.28%) Security Architecture
10 7 (12.28%) SIEM
11 6 (10.53%) Computer Science
11 6 (10.53%) SOAR
12 5 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.51%) Bash
1 2 (3.51%) Go
1 2 (3.51%) Python
Qualifications
1 36 (63.16%) CISSP
2 35 (61.40%) CISM
3 24 (42.11%) CRISC
4 13 (22.81%) CISA
5 12 (21.05%) SANS
6 11 (19.30%) ISACA
7 8 (14.04%) Degree
8 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
9 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
10 4 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (5.26%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (5.26%) OSCP
12 2 (3.51%) CEH
12 2 (3.51%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
12 2 (3.51%) GIAC
12 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
13 1 (1.75%) GCFA
13 1 (1.75%) GCIA
13 1 (1.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (100.00%) NIST
2 42 (73.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (50.88%) GRC
4 17 (29.82%) QA
5 5 (8.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (8.77%) Def Stans
6 4 (7.02%) GDPR
6 4 (7.02%) JSP 440
7 3 (5.26%) NCSC
8 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
9 1 (1.75%) COBIT
9 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
9 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.75%) ISO 31000
9 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (1.75%) SLA
9 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (3.51%) GPFS
1 2 (3.51%) Lustre
1 2 (3.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 11 (19.30%) RSA Archer
2 2 (3.51%) Ansible
2 2 (3.51%) SELinux
2 2 (3.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Splunk
2 3 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (5.26%) LogRhythm
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.51%) Google
3 2 (3.51%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.75%) Dell
4 1 (1.75%) Intel
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle
4 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.75%) SAP
4 1 (1.75%) Thales
4 1 (1.75%) Workday