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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 310 513
Rank change year-on-year -14 +203 -32
Permanent jobs citing NIST 730 912 1,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 1.13% 0.67%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.15% 7.49% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 587 676 837
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,125 £51,813 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% -0.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

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 11,872 12,180 30,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.14% 15.09% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,420 7,777 14,031
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,897 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,139 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +0.28% +5.26%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in the UK

NIST
Top 17 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 26 July 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
England -22 668 £70,000 +1.82% 99
UK excluding London +5 478 £60,000 -4.00% 79
London -31 223 £79,842 +6.46% 38
Work from Home -90 218 £72,500 +3.57% 61
South East +36 154 £50,500 -22.31% 20
North of England +25 107 £62,783 +9.19% 16
South West +16 82 £91,500 +30.71% 13
Midlands -54 76 £70,000 +15.23% 10
North West +4 70 £62,641 +26.55% 9
West Midlands -28 67 £72,500 +11.54% 10
Scotland -30 40 £59,250 +7.73% 13
Yorkshire +47 23 £50,000 -23.08% 4
North East +2 14 £62,783 +41.88% 3
East of England -15 14 £72,500 +3.57% 3
East Midlands -37 6 £62,000 +9.73%
Isle of Man -14 4 £46,500 +3.33%
Wales +23 1 £85,000 +41.67% 2

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 6 (0.82%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.68%) Confluence
3 3 (0.41%) IIS
4 1 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.14%) CMS
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 169 (23.15%) Azure
2 150 (20.55%) AWS
3 56 (7.67%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (4.52%) GCP
5 26 (3.56%) Amazon S3
5 26 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (3.42%) SaaS
7 23 (3.15%) PaaS
8 22 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (3.01%) Entra ID
8 22 (3.01%) Serverless
8 22 (3.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 21 (2.88%) IaaS
10 19 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 17 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 17 (2.33%) AWS CloudTrail
12 12 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (1.51%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 128 (17.53%) Network Security
2 125 (17.12%) Firewall
3 43 (5.89%) WAN
4 26 (3.56%) SD-WAN
5 24 (3.29%) VPN
6 19 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
7 15 (2.05%) Internet
8 13 (1.78%) LAN
9 12 (1.64%) Wireshark
10 11 (1.51%) DNS
11 8 (1.10%) SSL
11 8 (1.10%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.82%) BGP
12 6 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 6 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (0.82%) OSPF
13 5 (0.68%) VoIP
14 4 (0.55%) NGFW
15 3 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
15 3 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (1.37%) Power BI
3 6 (0.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.14%) MySQL
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.14%) Redis
5 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (2.05%) JIRA
2 11 (1.51%) GitLab
3 4 (0.55%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.55%) Metasploit
3 4 (0.55%) sqlmap
4 3 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.14%) Git
6 1 (0.14%) Jasmine
General
1 167 (22.88%) Social Skills
2 160 (21.92%) Finance
3 93 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (7.95%) Legal
5 47 (6.44%) Law
6 36 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (4.38%) Retail
8 25 (3.42%) Public Sector
9 23 (3.15%) Banking
10 21 (2.88%) Military
11 20 (2.74%) Marketing
11 20 (2.74%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.47%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.51%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.96%) Advertising
15 7 (0.96%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.55%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.41%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 138 (18.90%) Analyst
2 100 (13.70%) Consultant
3 95 (13.01%) Security Analyst
4 94 (12.88%) Architect
5 92 (12.60%) Security Consultant
6 89 (12.19%) Security Specialist
7 88 (12.05%) Lead
8 83 (11.37%) Senior
9 79 (10.82%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 74 (10.14%) Security Engineer
11 70 (9.59%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 65 (8.90%) Security Manager
13 64 (8.77%) Security Architect
14 46 (6.30%) Information Analyst
14 46 (6.30%) Information Security Analyst
15 40 (5.48%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 37 (5.07%) Lead Architect
17 30 (4.11%) Information Manager
17 30 (4.11%) Information Security Manager
18 25 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (2.05%) SAML
3 13 (1.78%) OAuth
4 10 (1.37%) SailPoint
4 10 (1.37%) Web Services
5 7 (0.96%) REST
6 6 (0.82%) AWS SAM
7 5 (0.68%) SOAP
8 4 (0.55%) Kafka
9 3 (0.41%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.41%) Sass
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.27%) ModSecurity
10 2 (0.27%) OpenID
11 1 (0.14%) AngularJS
11 1 (0.14%) CSS
11 1 (0.14%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.14%) LDAP
11 1 (0.14%) NestJS
11 1 (0.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 127 (17.40%) Management Information System
2 75 (10.27%) Security Posture
3 60 (8.22%) Cyber Threat
4 58 (7.95%) Security Operations Centre
5 51 (6.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 42 (5.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 41 (5.62%) Operational Technology
8 33 (4.52%) Cyber Defence
9 27 (3.70%) Data Centre
9 27 (3.70%) Public Cloud
10 25 (3.42%) Cloud Native
11 22 (3.01%) Cyberattack
12 20 (2.74%) Product Ownership
13 19 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (2.19%) Onboarding
15 13 (1.78%) Cyber Security Posture
15 13 (1.78%) PropTech
16 12 (1.64%) SCADA
17 11 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (1.23%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 53 (7.26%) Windows
2 43 (5.89%) Linux
3 20 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.19%) Unix
5 7 (0.96%) Kali Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.68%) CentOS
8 4 (0.55%) Solaris
8 4 (0.55%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.55%) Windows XP
8 4 (0.55%) zOS
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (69.32%) Cybersecurity
2 368 (50.41%) Information Security
3 204 (27.95%) Risk Management
4 158 (21.64%) SIEM
5 149 (20.41%) Incident Response
6 131 (17.95%) Cloud Security
6 131 (17.95%) Vulnerability Management
7 121 (16.58%) Security Operations
8 120 (16.44%) Security Architecture
9 108 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
10 94 (12.88%) Security Management
11 81 (11.10%) Incident Management
12 74 (10.14%) Computer Science
13 72 (9.86%) Application Security
14 70 (9.59%) Information Security Management
15 69 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 61 (8.36%) Decision-Making
16 61 (8.36%) ISMS
17 60 (8.22%) Identity Access Management
17 60 (8.22%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 52 (7.12%) Python
2 23 (3.15%) PowerShell
3 12 (1.64%) SQL
4 7 (0.96%) Java
5 6 (0.82%) Bash
5 6 (0.82%) C
5 6 (0.82%) R
5 6 (0.82%) Scala
6 5 (0.68%) C++
6 5 (0.68%) Go
7 4 (0.55%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.14%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 278 (38.08%) CISSP
2 218 (29.86%) CISM
3 134 (18.36%) Degree
4 116 (15.89%) Security Cleared
5 101 (13.84%) CISA
6 63 (8.63%) AWS Certification
7 60 (8.22%) DV Cleared
8 59 (8.08%) Cisco Certification
9 54 (7.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 54 (7.40%) CRISC
10 49 (6.71%) CCSP
11 45 (6.16%) SC Cleared
12 40 (5.48%) Azure Certification
13 38 (5.21%) CCSK
14 30 (4.11%) CompTIA Security+
15 29 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
16 26 (3.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 22 (3.01%) Master's Degree
17 22 (3.01%) PCI QSA
18 18 (2.47%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (50.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 164 (22.47%) GRC
3 117 (16.03%) GDPR
4 106 (14.52%) PCI DSS
5 94 (12.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 68 (9.32%) Def Stans
7 65 (8.90%) NIST 800
8 58 (7.95%) NCSC
9 50 (6.85%) COBIT
10 32 (4.38%) SOC 2
11 29 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 24 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 19 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (1.64%) HIPAA
15 10 (1.37%) RMADS
16 9 (1.23%) JSP 440
17 8 (1.10%) ISO 22301
17 8 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 7 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 7 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 42 (5.75%) Docker
2 27 (3.70%) vSphere
3 25 (3.42%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 2 (0.27%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) NFS
6 1 (0.14%) Snort
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (5.89%) Kubernetes
2 36 (4.93%) Single Sign-On
3 24 (3.29%) Terraform
4 14 (1.92%) CASB
5 10 (1.37%) Nessus
6 9 (1.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 7 (0.96%) Ansible
8 5 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.68%) Suricata
9 2 (0.27%) Argo
9 2 (0.27%) QRadar
9 2 (0.27%) SELinux
10 1 (0.14%) cPanel
10 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.14%) Kibana
10 1 (0.14%) logstash
10 1 (0.14%) Packer
10 1 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.14%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 130 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.84%) Tripwire
3 27 (3.70%) SolarWinds
3 27 (3.70%) Splunk
3 27 (3.70%) Tanium
4 23 (3.15%) Cisco
5 18 (2.47%) Qualys
6 13 (1.78%) Fortinet
6 13 (1.78%) Palo Alto
6 13 (1.78%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.78%) VMware
7 8 (1.10%) Google
7 8 (1.10%) Rapid7
8 7 (0.96%) Zscaler
9 6 (0.82%) CA
9 6 (0.82%) CyberArk
9 6 (0.82%) Juniper
10 5 (0.68%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.68%) Oracle
11 4 (0.55%) Dell