NIST Contracts in the UK excluding London

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for NIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NIST over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 198 317
Rank change year-on-year +9 +119 +21
Contract jobs citing NIST 228 285 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.12% 1.24% 0.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.68% 8.39% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 212 150
10th Percentile £475 £470 £500
25th Percentile £525 £548 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +22.55%
75th Percentile £666 £700 £763
90th Percentile £764 £811 £789
UK median daily rate £613 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 8
10th Percentile £33.48 £46.59 £51.47
25th Percentile £47.99 £55.49 £57.55
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £69.83
Median % change year-on-year +5.23% -8.14% +37.19%
75th Percentile £79.00 £70.77 £79.58
90th Percentile £81.36 £72.98 £82.15
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £68.58
% change year-on-year +5.23% -6.47% +34.73%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

NIST is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,970 3,395 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.64% 14.76% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 2,261 3,030
10th Percentile £250 £223 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +6.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 188 207
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.44
25th Percentile £12.75 £18.09 £15.78
Median hourly rate £18.27 £32.94 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.54% +46.41% +7.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
South West +45 87 £582 -6.88% 17
North of England +25 69 £640 +11.30% 20
South East -14 52 £613 -12.50% 22
North West +21 40 £660 +20.00% 12
Midlands +1 32 £550 -13.73% 23
West Midlands +1 31 £550 -12.00% 17
Yorkshire +8 25 £582 +1.22% 5
Scotland +30 15 £575 -8.91% 4
North East +14 4 £575 -4.17% 3
Wales +15 2 £781 +35.87% 2
East of England +6 2 £400 -24.17% 10
East Midlands +11 1 £625 -10.71% 6
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.19%) Confluence
2 4 (1.75%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.75%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.21%) Azure
2 20 (8.77%) AWS
3 9 (3.95%) GCP
4 5 (2.19%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (1.75%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.32%) GitHub
7 2 (0.88%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.88%) IaaS
7 2 (0.88%) PaaS
8 1 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.04%) Network Security
2 17 (7.46%) Firewall
3 16 (7.02%) DNS
4 15 (6.58%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.07%) DHCP
6 6 (2.63%) Wireless
7 4 (1.75%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.75%) IPsec
8 3 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.88%) Broadband
9 2 (0.88%) Internet
9 2 (0.88%) PPP
9 2 (0.88%) VPN
10 1 (0.44%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.44%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.44%) WAN
10 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.75%) Couchbase
1 4 (1.75%) MySQL
1 4 (1.75%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.32%) Hadoop
2 3 (1.32%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.88%) Big Data
3 2 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (3.07%) JIRA
2 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
2 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.88%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
General
1 83 (36.40%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.04%) Public Sector
3 23 (10.09%) Legal
4 20 (8.77%) Telecoms
5 14 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.14%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.70%) Finance
7 10 (4.39%) Military
8 6 (2.63%) Banking
8 6 (2.63%) Electronics
9 4 (1.75%) French Language
9 4 (1.75%) German Language
9 4 (1.75%) Marketing
9 4 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Law
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (21.49%) Analyst
2 38 (16.67%) Architect
3 35 (15.35%) Lead
4 33 (14.47%) Consultant
5 30 (13.16%) Security Consultant
6 21 (9.21%) Security Architect
7 16 (7.02%) Cyber Defence Analyst
8 15 (6.58%) Security Engineer
9 14 (6.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 12 (5.26%) SOC Analyst
11 11 (4.82%) Senior
12 10 (4.39%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 10 (4.39%) SOC Manager
13 9 (3.95%) Project Manager
13 9 (3.95%) Security Analyst
14 8 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.51%) Lead Architect
14 8 (3.51%) Test Analyst
15 7 (3.07%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.75%) JSON
1 4 (1.75%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (1.75%) YAML
2 3 (1.32%) Kafka
3 2 (0.88%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.88%) SAML
4 1 (0.44%) OLE
4 1 (0.44%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 55 (24.12%) Cyber Threat
1 55 (24.12%) Management Information System
2 51 (22.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 47 (20.61%) Cyber Defence
4 17 (7.46%) Security Posture
5 16 (7.02%) Operational Technology
6 15 (6.58%) Security Operations Centre
7 9 (3.95%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.95%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.95%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.51%) CESG
9 7 (3.07%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.63%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.75%) Cyberattack
12 3 (1.32%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.88%) IoT
13 2 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.91%) Linux
2 21 (9.21%) Windows
3 10 (4.39%) Mac OS X
4 7 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.07%) Unix
4 7 (3.07%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.75%) CentOS
6 3 (1.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (75.44%) Cybersecurity
2 107 (46.93%) Information Security
3 87 (38.16%) SIEM
4 70 (30.70%) Risk Management
5 54 (23.68%) Incident Response
6 53 (23.25%) Incident Management
7 51 (22.37%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 49 (21.49%) Use Case
9 46 (20.18%) Threat Intelligence
10 45 (19.74%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 45 (19.74%) Mentoring
11 43 (18.86%) SOAR
12 41 (17.98%) Protective Monitoring
13 40 (17.54%) Root Cause Analysis
14 39 (17.11%) Security Architecture
15 38 (16.67%) Case Management
16 34 (14.91%) CRM
17 33 (14.47%) Vulnerability Management
18 27 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
19 26 (11.40%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.39%) Python
2 9 (3.95%) C#
3 8 (3.51%) Java
4 6 (2.63%) C++
4 6 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.75%) PHP
5 4 (1.75%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.88%) Go
6 2 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.88%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 139 (60.96%) Security Cleared
2 71 (31.14%) DV Cleared
3 70 (30.70%) SC Cleared
4 52 (22.81%) CISSP
5 46 (20.18%) CISM
6 25 (10.96%) CISA
7 18 (7.89%) Degree
8 15 (6.58%) CEH
8 15 (6.58%) ISACA
9 14 (6.14%) CISMP
10 12 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (5.26%) CRISC
11 11 (4.82%) CompTIA Security+
12 9 (3.95%) SSCP
13 8 (3.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (3.51%) CESG Certified Professional
14 6 (2.63%) CLAS
14 6 (2.63%) CREST Certified
14 6 (2.63%) GPEN
14 6 (2.63%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (43.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (25.88%) NIST 800
3 42 (18.42%) GDPR
4 24 (10.53%) HIPAA
5 23 (10.09%) PCI DSS
6 21 (9.21%) COBIT
7 18 (7.89%) NCSC
8 17 (7.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (5.26%) GRC
10 11 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 10 (4.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 10 (4.39%) JSP 440
12 7 (3.07%) RMADS
13 4 (1.75%) COSO
13 4 (1.75%) QA
14 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 2 (0.88%) ISA99
15 2 (0.88%) ISO 31000
15 2 (0.88%) PMO
15 2 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (3.51%) Active Directory
1 8 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.07%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (3.07%) VMware NSX
3 5 (2.19%) Docker
4 1 (0.44%) Firmware
4 1 (0.44%) Snort
Systems Management
1 10 (4.39%) Terraform
2 9 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.07%) SCCM
3 7 (3.07%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.63%) Ansible
5 4 (1.75%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 1 (0.44%) Kibana
6 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (27.19%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.14%) VMware
3 11 (4.82%) Splunk
4 7 (3.07%) SAP
4 7 (3.07%) Veeam
5 6 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.63%) Google
6 4 (1.75%) Rapid7
7 3 (1.32%) F5
7 3 (1.32%) Qualys
7 3 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.32%) Sophos
8 2 (0.88%) Cadence
8 2 (0.88%) Databricks
8 2 (0.88%) LogRhythm
8 2 (0.88%) Teradata
9 1 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.44%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.44%) Darktrace
9 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds