NIST Jobs in the West Midlands

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 156 177
Rank change year-on-year -54 +21 -17
Permanent jobs citing NIST 50 128 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.69% 1.89% 1.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.46% 6.39% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 47 107 50
10th Percentile £35,920 £47,500 £42,187
25th Percentile £36,250 £51,375 £48,772
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £84,959 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £105,850 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.70% +3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,120 2,002 1,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.48% 29.64% 19.14%
Number of salaries quoted 865 742 858
10th Percentile £27,380 £31,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,125 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,375 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +9.31% -1.05%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,125
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,375
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the West Midlands

NIST
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for NIST in the West Midlands

NIST
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in the West Midlands

NIST
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
Birmingham -13 25 £72,500 - 3
Staffordshire -13 13 £37,500 -42.31% 2
Solihull -6 2 £70,000 +64.71% 4
Worcestershire -18 2 £80,000 +36.17%
Warwickshire +27 1 - - 7
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (12.00%) Azure
3 5 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (8.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (8.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (8.00%) Serverless
4 4 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) Firewall
2 8 (16.00%) VPN
3 6 (12.00%) WAN
4 3 (6.00%) LAN
4 3 (6.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (6.00%) Wireless
5 1 (2.00%) Network Security
5 1 (2.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (4.00%) GitLab
1 2 (4.00%) Metasploit
1 2 (4.00%) sqlmap
General
1 16 (32.00%) Finance
2 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (18.00%) Retail
4 5 (10.00%) Automotive
5 4 (8.00%) Local Government
6 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (2.00%) Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Law
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Analyst
2 9 (18.00%) Security Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) Operations Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) Security Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Security Operations Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Consultant
4 7 (14.00%) Security Consultant
4 7 (14.00%) Security Manager
5 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 4 (8.00%) Head of Security
6 4 (8.00%) Information Manager
6 4 (8.00%) Information Security Manager
6 4 (8.00%) Lead
7 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 3 (6.00%) Head of Information
7 3 (6.00%) Head of Information Security
7 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.00%) Operational Technology
4 3 (6.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
5 2 (4.00%) PropTech
5 2 (4.00%) SCADA
6 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Windows
2 9 (18.00%) Linux
3 3 (6.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (74.00%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (68.00%) Information Security
3 22 (44.00%) Risk Management
4 13 (26.00%) Security Operations
5 12 (24.00%) Incident Response
6 10 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 8 (16.00%) Data Security
7 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (14.00%) Security Architecture
9 6 (12.00%) Computer Science
9 6 (12.00%) Data Protection
9 6 (12.00%) ITIL
9 6 (12.00%) Threat Modelling
10 5 (10.00%) Incident Management
10 5 (10.00%) IT Audit
10 5 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
10 5 (10.00%) Validation
10 5 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 4 (8.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (40.00%) CISM
1 20 (40.00%) CISSP
2 10 (20.00%) Degree
3 7 (14.00%) AWS Certification
4 6 (12.00%) CISA
4 6 (12.00%) PCI QSA
5 4 (8.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (6.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (6.00%) CCSK
6 3 (6.00%) CCSP
6 3 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (6.00%) SSCP
7 2 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.00%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (2.00%) CRISC
8 1 (2.00%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (62.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (22.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (22.00%) GDPR
3 9 (18.00%) PCI DSS
4 5 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (10.00%) GRC
4 5 (10.00%) NCSC
5 2 (4.00%) ISO 22301
5 2 (4.00%) NIST 800
5 2 (4.00%) SLA
6 1 (2.00%) ISO 31000
6 1 (2.00%) ISO 9001
6 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (2.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) Facebook