NIST Contracts in Central London

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 115 181
Rank change year-on-year +6 +66 -3
Contract jobs citing NIST 20 35 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.86% 1.16% 0.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.25% 7.58% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 23
10th Percentile £459 £488 £518
25th Percentile £563 £516 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £618 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £775 £680 £806
90th Percentile - £839 £833
London median daily rate £650 £650 £650
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

NIST falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 381 462 648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.30% 15.29% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 349 457
10th Percentile £349 £395 £363
25th Percentile £450 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £700
90th Percentile £750 £811 £812
London median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +5.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile - - £16.65
25th Percentile - £71.25 £18.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £72.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.72% +137.70% +7.02%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £60.19
90th Percentile - - £62.25
London median hourly rate £35.00 £33.75 £26.65
% change year-on-year +3.70% +26.67% -1.31%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Central London

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in Central London.

Daily rate trend for NIST in Central London

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Central London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Central London

NIST
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +12 20 £635 +3.25% 7
NIST
London

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) IPsec
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (5.00%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Military
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Police
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Operational Security Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Operations Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Security Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Security Operations Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Incident Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Network Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.00%) LDAP
1 1 (5.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.00%) NHS
4 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (45.00%) Information Security
3 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (20.00%) Coaching
4 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (15.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.00%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 3 (15.00%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (15.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (15.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Bash
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) CISSP
2 7 (35.00%) CISM
2 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (15.00%) CEH
4 3 (15.00%) CISA
5 2 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (10.00%) CCNP
5 2 (10.00%) Degree
6 1 (5.00%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (5.00%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (5.00%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.00%) CPTE
6 1 (5.00%) CREST Certified
6 1 (5.00%) FFIEC
6 1 (5.00%) GIAC
6 1 (5.00%) MCSE
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.00%) GDPR
3 2 (10.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (5.00%) GLBA
4 1 (5.00%) GRC
4 1 (5.00%) JSP 440
4 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.00%) Nessus
1 1 (5.00%) Nmap
1 1 (5.00%) OpenVAS
1 1 (5.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) AlienVault
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Citrix
2 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.00%) Qualys
2 1 (5.00%) Tanium
2 1 (5.00%) VMware