National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 329 438
Rank change year-on-year +2 +109 +13
Permanent jobs citing NIST 856 1,088 1,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 1.04% 0.83%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.35% 5.40% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 703 766 791
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £84,919 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £64,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.20% -0.38% +18.18%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,490 20,156 25,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.76% 19.26% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,233 9,268 13,209
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +25 782 £66,500 -5.00% 180
UK excluding London +13 540 £57,500 -11.20% 104
Work from Home -33 313 £65,000 -7.14% 86
London +23 274 £75,000 +2.04% 84
South East +5 156 £50,500 -22.31% 30
North of England +96 152 £57,500 -4.17% 14
South West +32 107 £62,500 -3.85% 15
North West +51 96 £60,000 - 9
Midlands -60 59 £66,500 +6.40% 18
West Midlands -46 49 £70,000 +12.00% 16
Scotland -47 44 £60,000 +8.26% 10
Yorkshire +81 32 £55,000 -18.52% 3
North East +18 24 £42,500 -14.36% 2
East of England +12 17 £72,500 +3.57% 11
East Midlands -8 9 £47,500 -15.93% 1
Isle of Man -18 4 £46,500 -17.33% 1
Wales +11 1 £58,000 +5.45% 5

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 15 (1.75%) IIS
2 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.12%) Apache
3 1 (0.12%) Confluence
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 217 (25.35%) Azure
2 165 (19.28%) AWS
3 96 (11.21%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (4.09%) SaaS
5 33 (3.86%) GCP
5 33 (3.86%) IaaS
5 33 (3.86%) PaaS
6 32 (3.74%) Azure Sentinel
7 29 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
8 27 (3.15%) Entra ID
8 27 (3.15%) Microsoft Purview
9 14 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.29%) Amazon S3
10 11 (1.29%) Serverless
11 9 (1.05%) Power Platform
12 7 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 166 (19.39%) Firewall
2 158 (18.46%) Network Security
3 55 (6.43%) WAN
4 44 (5.14%) Intrusion Detection
5 36 (4.21%) SD-WAN
6 31 (3.62%) VPN
7 29 (3.39%) TCP/IP
8 19 (2.22%) LAN
9 18 (2.10%) Wireshark
10 17 (1.99%) Internet
11 14 (1.64%) DNS
12 10 (1.17%) Wireless
13 7 (0.82%) DMZ
14 6 (0.70%) VoIP
15 4 (0.47%) 5G
15 4 (0.47%) tcpdump
15 4 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
16 3 (0.35%) Modbus
16 3 (0.35%) PPP
16 3 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.05%) Power BI
2 7 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.58%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.12%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.12%) Redis
6 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (1.75%) GitLab
2 11 (1.29%) JIRA
3 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.23%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.23%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.23%) sqlmap
5 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.12%) Git
5 1 (0.12%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 210 (24.53%) Finance
2 200 (23.36%) Social Skills
3 107 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.01%) Legal
5 49 (5.72%) Military
6 48 (5.61%) Law
7 42 (4.91%) Retail
8 33 (3.86%) Public Sector
9 31 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (3.27%) Aerospace
11 24 (2.80%) Marketing
12 22 (2.57%) Telecoms
13 19 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.64%) Banking
15 13 (1.52%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.29%) Aviation
17 8 (0.93%) Automotive
18 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
19 5 (0.58%) Advertising
20 4 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 173 (20.21%) Analyst
2 147 (17.17%) Consultant
3 141 (16.47%) Security Consultant
4 134 (15.65%) Security Analyst
5 121 (14.14%) Senior
6 107 (12.50%) Architect
7 100 (11.68%) Security Specialist
8 92 (10.75%) Lead
9 87 (10.16%) Security Architect
10 83 (9.70%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 77 (9.00%) Security Engineer
12 74 (8.64%) Security Manager
13 73 (8.53%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 62 (7.24%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 50 (5.84%) Information Analyst
15 50 (5.84%) Information Security Analyst
16 38 (4.44%) Lead Architect
17 34 (3.97%) Information Manager
18 32 (3.74%) Information Security Manager
19 31 (3.62%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (2.10%) Web Services
3 13 (1.52%) OAuth
3 13 (1.52%) SAML
4 11 (1.29%) REST
5 9 (1.05%) SOAP
6 6 (0.70%) Middleware
7 4 (0.47%) Kafka
7 4 (0.47%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.35%) AWS SAM
8 3 (0.35%) OpenID
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.23%) Sass
10 1 (0.12%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.12%) CSS
10 1 (0.12%) FIDO
10 1 (0.12%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.12%) LDAP
10 1 (0.12%) NestJS
10 1 (0.12%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 173 (20.21%) Management Information System
2 95 (11.10%) Security Posture
3 86 (10.05%) Security Operations Centre
4 77 (9.00%) Cyber Threat
5 54 (6.31%) Cyber Defence
5 54 (6.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 52 (6.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 37 (4.32%) Operational Technology
8 27 (3.15%) Cyberattack
9 23 (2.69%) Public Cloud
10 22 (2.57%) Product Ownership
11 21 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (2.34%) Data Centre
13 19 (2.22%) Onboarding
14 17 (1.99%) CESG
14 17 (1.99%) Cloud Native
15 15 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
16 12 (1.40%) Private Cloud
17 10 (1.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 69 (8.06%) Windows
2 40 (4.67%) Linux
3 21 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.64%) Android
4 14 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.40%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.17%) Unix
7 7 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.70%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.58%) CentOS
9 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.47%) Solaris
10 4 (0.47%) zOS
11 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.23%) AIX
12 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (71.14%) Cybersecurity
2 493 (57.59%) Information Security
3 221 (25.82%) Risk Management
4 198 (23.13%) SIEM
5 182 (21.26%) Security Operations
6 181 (21.14%) Security Architecture
7 149 (17.41%) Vulnerability Management
8 144 (16.82%) Cloud Security
9 142 (16.59%) Incident Response
10 125 (14.60%) Security Management
11 116 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
12 102 (11.92%) Application Security
13 92 (10.75%) OWASP
14 85 (9.93%) Computer Science
14 85 (9.93%) Information Security Management
15 77 (9.00%) Agile
15 77 (9.00%) Mentoring
16 74 (8.64%) Vulnerability Assessment
17 73 (8.53%) Identity Access Management
18 71 (8.29%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (4.91%) Python
2 31 (3.62%) PowerShell
3 13 (1.52%) SQL
4 8 (0.93%) Bash
5 4 (0.47%) C
5 4 (0.47%) C++
5 4 (0.47%) Java
5 4 (0.47%) R
5 4 (0.47%) Scala
6 1 (0.12%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 321 (37.50%) CISSP
2 212 (24.77%) CISM
3 143 (16.71%) Degree
4 135 (15.77%) Security Cleared
5 114 (13.32%) Cisco Certification
6 111 (12.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 102 (11.92%) CCSP
8 97 (11.33%) CISA
9 63 (7.36%) AWS Certification
10 60 (7.01%) Azure Certification
11 58 (6.78%) CCSK
11 58 (6.78%) SC Cleared
12 54 (6.31%) DV Cleared
13 53 (6.19%) CRISC
14 38 (4.44%) CEH
15 37 (4.32%) CompTIA Security+
15 37 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
16 33 (3.86%) CompTIA CySA+
16 33 (3.86%) PCI QSA
17 31 (3.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 424 (49.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 170 (19.86%) GRC
3 137 (16.00%) PCI DSS
4 135 (15.77%) GDPR
5 130 (15.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 82 (9.58%) NCSC
7 81 (9.46%) NIST 800
8 70 (8.18%) Def Stans
9 54 (6.31%) COBIT
10 37 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 33 (3.86%) SOC 2
12 32 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 32 (3.74%) JSP 440
13 29 (3.39%) RMADS
14 21 (2.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (1.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 15 (1.75%) ISO 31000
16 11 (1.29%) HIPAA
17 8 (0.93%) ISO 22301
18 7 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 38 (4.44%) Docker
2 36 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.80%) vSphere
4 14 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.35%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) Snort
Systems Management
1 50 (5.84%) Single Sign-On
2 45 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 20 (2.34%) Terraform
4 19 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.87%) CASB
6 14 (1.64%) Nmap
7 13 (1.52%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 11 (1.29%) Nessus
9 4 (0.47%) QRadar
10 3 (0.35%) Ansible
10 3 (0.35%) SELinux
10 3 (0.35%) Suricata
11 2 (0.23%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.23%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 2 (0.23%) Packer
11 2 (0.23%) SCCM
12 1 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 162 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.32%) Splunk
3 33 (3.86%) Qualys
4 28 (3.27%) Tripwire
5 26 (3.04%) Tanium
6 24 (2.80%) SolarWinds
7 23 (2.69%) Cisco
8 15 (1.75%) Rapid7
9 14 (1.64%) Google
9 14 (1.64%) Thycotic
10 11 (1.29%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.05%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.05%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.93%) CA
12 8 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.82%) Symantec
13 7 (0.82%) VMware
13 7 (0.82%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.70%) Blue Coat
14 6 (0.70%) Netskope