NIST Jobs in England

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 314 451
Rank change year-on-year +14 +137 +27
Permanent jobs citing NIST 794 947 1,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.93% 1.06% 0.79%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.66% 5.51% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 659 659 675
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £84,919 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,000
UK median annual salary £67,000 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -4.29% +1.82% +5.77%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,921 17,197 22,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.91% 19.26% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 8,352 7,941 11,832
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% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in England

NIST
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NIST in England.

Salary trend for NIST in England

NIST
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in England

NIST
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +14 272 £75,000 - 72
South East -12 159 £50,500 -22.31% 21
North of England +77 149 £57,500 -4.17% 23
South West +28 110 £62,500 -3.66% 17
North West +42 94 £60,000 +20.60% 13
Midlands -45 69 £66,500 +6.40% 24
West Midlands -47 57 £70,000 +9.38% 18
Yorkshire +76 32 £55,000 -18.52% 6
North East +14 23 £42,500 -14.36% 4
East of England +3 18 £72,500 +3.57% 10
East Midlands -13 9 £47,500 -15.93% 6
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (2.02%) IIS
2 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.13%) Apache
3 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 186 (23.43%) Azure
2 150 (18.89%) AWS
3 75 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
5 30 (3.78%) GCP
6 28 (3.53%) Azure Sentinel
7 23 (2.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (2.77%) IaaS
8 22 (2.77%) PaaS
8 22 (2.77%) SaaS
9 18 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.89%) Amazon S3
10 15 (1.89%) Serverless
11 14 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (1.51%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 150 (18.89%) Network Security
2 148 (18.64%) Firewall
3 61 (7.68%) WAN
4 36 (4.53%) SD-WAN
5 34 (4.28%) Intrusion Detection
6 28 (3.53%) TCP/IP
7 23 (2.90%) LAN
7 23 (2.90%) VPN
8 19 (2.39%) Wireshark
9 16 (2.02%) DNS
10 14 (1.76%) Internet
11 10 (1.26%) Wireless
12 7 (0.88%) VoIP
13 6 (0.76%) DMZ
14 5 (0.63%) 5G
15 4 (0.50%) SSL
15 4 (0.50%) tcpdump
15 4 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
16 3 (0.38%) HTTP
16 3 (0.38%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.51%) Power BI
2 11 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.13%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.13%) Redis
4 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (1.89%) GitLab
2 10 (1.26%) JIRA
3 3 (0.38%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.38%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.38%) sqlmap
4 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.13%) Git
4 1 (0.13%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 196 (24.69%) Finance
2 181 (22.80%) Social Skills
3 101 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (7.18%) Legal
5 48 (6.05%) Military
6 45 (5.67%) Retail
7 39 (4.91%) Law
8 31 (3.90%) Public Sector
9 27 (3.40%) Aerospace
10 23 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.77%) Telecoms
12 19 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.02%) Marketing
14 14 (1.76%) Banking
15 11 (1.39%) Aviation
16 8 (1.01%) Automotive
16 8 (1.01%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.63%) Advertising
18 4 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
19 3 (0.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 158 (19.90%) Analyst
2 132 (16.62%) Consultant
3 126 (15.87%) Security Consultant
4 120 (15.11%) Security Analyst
5 110 (13.85%) Senior
6 99 (12.47%) Security Specialist
7 94 (11.84%) Architect
8 91 (11.46%) Lead
9 81 (10.20%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 76 (9.57%) Security Architect
10 76 (9.57%) Security Manager
11 71 (8.94%) Security Engineer
12 66 (8.31%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 54 (6.80%) Information Analyst
13 54 (6.80%) Information Security Analyst
14 49 (6.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 36 (4.53%) Information Manager
16 34 (4.28%) Information Security Manager
16 34 (4.28%) Lead Architect
17 28 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (1.76%) Web Services
3 6 (0.76%) Middleware
4 5 (0.63%) REST
5 4 (0.50%) Kafka
5 4 (0.50%) OAuth
5 4 (0.50%) SailPoint
5 4 (0.50%) SAML
6 3 (0.38%) AWS SAM
6 3 (0.38%) Sass
6 3 (0.38%) SOAP
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.13%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.13%) CSS
8 1 (0.13%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.13%) NestJS
8 1 (0.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 164 (20.65%) Management Information System
2 86 (10.83%) Security Operations Centre
3 85 (10.71%) Security Posture
4 69 (8.69%) Cyber Threat
5 55 (6.93%) Cyber Defence
6 54 (6.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 48 (6.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 39 (4.91%) Operational Technology
9 24 (3.02%) Cyberattack
10 22 (2.77%) Data Centre
10 22 (2.77%) Onboarding
11 21 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (2.14%) Cloud Native
12 17 (2.14%) Product Ownership
13 16 (2.02%) CESG
14 15 (1.89%) Public Cloud
14 15 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.51%) Cloud Security Posture
15 12 (1.51%) Private Cloud
15 12 (1.51%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 64 (8.06%) Windows
2 37 (4.66%) Linux
3 21 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.76%) Android
4 14 (1.76%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.64%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.39%) Unix
7 8 (1.01%) Kali Linux
8 7 (0.88%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.63%) CentOS
11 4 (0.50%) Solaris
11 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.50%) zOS
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (70.28%) Cybersecurity
2 457 (57.56%) Information Security
3 204 (25.69%) Risk Management
4 189 (23.80%) SIEM
5 171 (21.54%) Security Architecture
6 168 (21.16%) Security Operations
7 145 (18.26%) Vulnerability Management
8 138 (17.38%) Cloud Security
9 136 (17.13%) Incident Response
10 115 (14.48%) Security Management
11 105 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
12 84 (10.58%) OWASP
13 83 (10.45%) Application Security
14 79 (9.95%) Information Security Management
15 78 (9.82%) Agile
16 71 (8.94%) Incident Management
17 70 (8.82%) Mentoring
18 69 (8.69%) Computer Science
19 67 (8.44%) Threat Intelligence
20 66 (8.31%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 49 (6.17%) Python
2 29 (3.65%) PowerShell
3 10 (1.26%) SQL
4 8 (1.01%) Bash
5 6 (0.76%) C
5 6 (0.76%) Java
5 6 (0.76%) R
5 6 (0.76%) Scala
6 3 (0.38%) C++
7 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 280 (35.26%) CISSP
2 186 (23.43%) CISM
3 133 (16.75%) Security Cleared
4 130 (16.37%) Degree
5 95 (11.96%) Cisco Certification
6 92 (11.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 92 (11.59%) CISA
7 84 (10.58%) CCSP
8 71 (8.94%) AWS Certification
9 58 (7.30%) Azure Certification
10 56 (7.05%) CCSK
11 55 (6.93%) CRISC
11 55 (6.93%) DV Cleared
12 53 (6.68%) SC Cleared
13 37 (4.66%) CEH
14 32 (4.03%) PCI QSA
15 31 (3.90%) CompTIA Security+
16 26 (3.27%) CompTIA CySA+
16 26 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
16 26 (3.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 396 (49.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 174 (21.91%) GRC
3 136 (17.13%) PCI DSS
4 119 (14.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 115 (14.48%) GDPR
6 80 (10.08%) NIST 800
7 71 (8.94%) NCSC
8 70 (8.82%) Def Stans
9 47 (5.92%) COBIT
10 33 (4.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 33 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 30 (3.78%) JSP 440
12 27 (3.40%) RMADS
13 23 (2.90%) SOC 2
14 22 (2.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (1.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 10 (1.26%) ISO 31000
17 8 (1.01%) HIPAA
18 7 (0.88%) ISO 22301
18 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 40 (5.04%) Docker
2 31 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.27%) vSphere
4 14 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.38%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) Snort
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (6.17%) Single Sign-On
2 39 (4.91%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.90%) Terraform
4 18 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.76%) Nmap
6 12 (1.51%) CASB
7 8 (1.01%) Nessus
8 6 (0.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (0.63%) Suricata
10 4 (0.50%) QRadar
11 3 (0.38%) Ansible
11 3 (0.38%) SELinux
12 2 (0.25%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.25%) Packer
13 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.13%) SCOM
13 1 (0.13%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 148 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.66%) Splunk
3 32 (4.03%) Qualys
4 27 (3.40%) Tanium
4 27 (3.40%) Tripwire
5 25 (3.15%) SolarWinds
6 18 (2.27%) Cisco
7 17 (2.14%) Rapid7
8 14 (1.76%) Thycotic
9 13 (1.64%) Google
10 12 (1.51%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.13%) VMware
12 7 (0.88%) CA
12 7 (0.88%) Fortinet
12 7 (0.88%) Juniper
13 5 (0.63%) IBM
13 5 (0.63%) Intel
13 5 (0.63%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.50%) Citrix
14 4 (0.50%) Oracle