National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 340 305
Rank change year-on-year +90 -35 +191
Permanent jobs citing NIST 766 807 956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.27% 0.80% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.26% 6.15% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 452 651 700
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,625
25th Percentile £54,700 £51,250 £52,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,275 13,118 13,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.42% 13.06% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,869 8,491 8,044
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,625 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,139
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.26% +0.28%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the UK

NIST
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for NIST in the UK

NIST
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for NIST in the UK

NIST
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the UK over the 6 months to 17 July 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
England +81 712 £72,500 +3.57% 433
UK excluding London +66 434 £65,000 +4.00% 285
Work from Home +99 289 £68,442 -5.60% 284
London +94 268 £82,801 +3.50% 204
Midlands +101 127 £62,500 -10.71% 21
South East +6 95 £65,000 +28.71% 95
West Midlands +72 91 £62,500 -13.79% 14
North of England +12 82 £58,450 -2.58% 63
South West +64 70 £62,200 -32.02% 46
North West -26 46 £60,500 -1.22% 38
East Midlands +73 36 £62,500 +9.65% 7
Scotland +83 33 £80,000 +33.33% 23
Yorkshire +36 19 £57,500 +4.55% 19
North East +32 17 £57,500 +4.55% 6
East of England +32 17 £42,085 -41.95% 28
Wales +34 4 £67,192 -20.95% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £76,092 - 6
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -
Isle of Man +10 1 - -

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.52%) IIS
4 3 (0.39%) Confluence
5 2 (0.26%) TPMS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 195 (25.46%) AWS
2 178 (23.24%) Azure
3 97 (12.66%) Serverless
4 94 (12.27%) AWS Lambda
5 60 (7.83%) Entra ID
6 54 (7.05%) GCP
7 48 (6.27%) PaaS
8 43 (5.61%) SaaS
9 38 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (4.57%) Azure Sentinel
12 27 (3.52%) IaaS
13 16 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.04%) Amazon S3
15 7 (0.91%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (0.91%) Power Platform
15 7 (0.91%) Snowflake
16 6 (0.78%) Amazon SageMaker
16 6 (0.78%) AWS Step Functions
17 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 118 (15.40%) Firewall
2 99 (12.92%) Network Security
3 88 (11.49%) SSL
4 82 (10.70%) Broadband
4 82 (10.70%) SSH
5 59 (7.70%) VPN
6 30 (3.92%) Intrusion Detection
7 11 (1.44%) WAN
8 10 (1.31%) DNS
9 8 (1.04%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.91%) LAN
11 6 (0.78%) Wireless
12 5 (0.65%) TCP/IP
13 4 (0.52%) DHCP
13 4 (0.52%) HTTP
14 3 (0.39%) S/MIME
14 3 (0.39%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.39%) WLAN
14 3 (0.39%) X.509
15 2 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.96%) NoSQL
2 7 (0.91%) Power BI
3 6 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.39%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.26%) Big Data
6 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.26%) Tableau
7 1 (0.13%) DB2
7 1 (0.13%) GIS
7 1 (0.13%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.13%) HBase
Development Applications
1 16 (2.09%) JIRA
2 6 (0.78%) Burp Suite
2 6 (0.78%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.13%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.13%) MLflow
4 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 271 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 190 (24.80%) Finance
3 100 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (6.01%) Legal
5 43 (5.61%) Banking
6 35 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (4.05%) Public Sector
8 29 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (3.66%) Manufacturing
10 25 (3.26%) Telecoms
11 24 (3.13%) Electronics
12 23 (3.00%) Marketing
13 21 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (2.48%) Law
14 19 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (1.83%) Aerospace
16 12 (1.57%) Local Government
17 11 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.44%) Retail
18 9 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 215 (28.07%) Security Engineer
2 107 (13.97%) Cloud Engineer
2 107 (13.97%) Principal Engineer
3 105 (13.71%) Analyst
4 101 (13.19%) Lead
4 101 (13.19%) Principal Security Engineer
5 84 (10.97%) Architect
6 82 (10.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 79 (10.31%) Security Analyst
8 61 (7.96%) Product Engineer
9 55 (7.18%) Security Architect
10 47 (6.14%) Security Manager
11 46 (6.01%) Senior
12 41 (5.35%) Principal Security Analyst
12 41 (5.35%) Product Analyst
13 37 (4.83%) Consultant
14 28 (3.66%) Security Consultant
15 26 (3.39%) Information Manager
15 26 (3.39%) Information Security Manager
16 23 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (11.10%) RESTful
2 82 (10.70%) Web Services
3 30 (3.92%) YAML
4 18 (2.35%) SailPoint
5 14 (1.83%) OAuth
5 14 (1.83%) OpenID
5 14 (1.83%) SAML
6 10 (1.31%) EDI
6 10 (1.31%) OAuth2
7 7 (0.91%) JSON
8 4 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.39%) EJB
10 2 (0.26%) JWT
10 2 (0.26%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.26%) LDAP
10 2 (0.26%) REST
10 2 (0.26%) SOAP
11 1 (0.13%) Hugging Face
11 1 (0.13%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 187 (24.41%) Management Information System
2 133 (17.36%) Security Posture
3 125 (16.32%) Cyber Threat
4 90 (11.75%) PKI
5 88 (11.49%) Onboarding
6 87 (11.36%) Cyberattack
7 30 (3.92%) Cloud Native
8 26 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (2.48%) Security Operations Centre
10 17 (2.22%) Taxonomies
11 16 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.70%) Cyber Defence
12 13 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.31%) Operational Technology
14 8 (1.04%) Data Centre
14 8 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 7 (0.91%) Cyber Security Posture
15 7 (0.91%) Social Media
16 6 (0.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.01%) Windows
2 15 (1.96%) Linux
3 10 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.91%) Windows Vista
5 5 (0.65%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.52%) VMS
7 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) Unix
8 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (69.97%) Cybersecurity
2 317 (41.38%) Information Security
3 307 (40.08%) Risk Management
4 158 (20.63%) DevOps
5 157 (20.50%) Roadmaps
6 155 (20.23%) Security Testing
7 150 (19.58%) Vulnerability Management
8 143 (18.67%) Cloud Security
9 130 (16.97%) Incident Response
10 127 (16.58%) Project Management
11 126 (16.45%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 115 (15.01%) Cyber Resilience
13 105 (13.71%) SIEM
14 100 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
15 99 (12.92%) Mentoring
16 93 (12.14%) Key Management
17 87 (11.36%) Programme Delivery
18 85 (11.10%) Use Case
19 82 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
19 82 (10.70%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 162 (21.15%) Python
2 93 (12.14%) PowerShell
3 37 (4.83%) SQL
4 31 (4.05%) Bash
5 22 (2.87%) Java
6 16 (2.09%) C#
7 10 (1.31%) Go
7 10 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (1.31%) Perl
8 7 (0.91%) R
9 2 (0.26%) Groovy
9 2 (0.26%) VBA
10 1 (0.13%) Bicep
10 1 (0.13%) C++
10 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 301 (39.30%) CISSP
2 281 (36.68%) CISM
3 253 (33.03%) Degree
4 108 (14.10%) CESG Certified Professional
5 105 (13.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 79 (10.31%) Security Cleared
7 67 (8.75%) Master's Degree
8 63 (8.22%) CEH
9 62 (8.09%) CRISC
10 61 (7.96%) CISA
11 51 (6.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 48 (6.27%) SC Cleared
13 42 (5.48%) CompTIA Security+
14 36 (4.70%) Cisco Certification
15 32 (4.18%) Azure Certification
16 31 (4.05%) AWS Certification
17 29 (3.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 23 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 19 (2.48%) OSCP
19 19 (2.48%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 577 (75.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 176 (22.98%) GDPR
3 110 (14.36%) RMADS
4 102 (13.32%) JSP 440
5 88 (11.49%) NCSC
6 81 (10.57%) PCI DSS
7 72 (9.40%) GRC
8 68 (8.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 50 (6.53%) COBIT
10 45 (5.87%) SOC 2
11 40 (5.22%) NIST 800
12 30 (3.92%) HIPAA
13 27 (3.52%) Accessibility
13 27 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 17 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 15 (1.96%) QA
15 15 (1.96%) SOC 1
16 9 (1.17%) Def Stans
16 9 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.65%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 120 (15.67%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.74%) Docker
3 7 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.26%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 100 (13.05%) Terraform
2 22 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.35%) RSA Archer
4 12 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.04%) Ansible
6 8 (1.04%) Nessus
6 8 (1.04%) QRadar
7 6 (0.78%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (0.78%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.78%) Puppet
8 5 (0.65%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.65%) HP Fortify
8 5 (0.65%) Nmap
9 3 (0.39%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 2 (0.26%) Argo
10 2 (0.26%) Graylog
10 2 (0.26%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.26%) Kibana
10 2 (0.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 153 (19.97%) Microsoft
2 85 (11.10%) Thales
3 28 (3.66%) Google
4 22 (2.87%) SAP
5 20 (2.61%) Splunk
6 18 (2.35%) Cisco
7 14 (1.83%) VMware
8 13 (1.70%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.57%) ForgeRock
9 12 (1.57%) Oracle
9 12 (1.57%) Tenable
10 11 (1.44%) Qualys
11 8 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (1.04%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.65%) Juniper
12 5 (0.65%) Tanium
13 4 (0.52%) Databricks
13 4 (0.52%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.52%) Okta