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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 320 467
Rank change year-on-year +17 +147 +9
Permanent jobs citing NIST 799 914 1,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.90% 1.06% 0.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.68% 5.59% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 667 647 682
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £84,919 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%

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 11,958 16,365 23,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.46% 18.90% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 8,285 7,718 12,004
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,200 £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 £70,750 £76,250 £73,813
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.75%

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 28 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 28 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 +28 280 £75,000 - 70
South East -4 155 £50,500 -22.31% 21
North of England +87 151 £57,500 -2.95% 18
South West +26 107 £75,000 +15.38% 23
North West +41 95 £60,000 +20.00% 9
Midlands -48 74 £70,000 +14.29% 17
West Midlands -45 62 £70,000 +12.00% 13
Yorkshire +68 32 £55,000 -15.38% 8
North East +15 24 £42,500 -14.36% 1
East of England -8 17 £72,500 +3.57% 10
East Midlands -11 9 £47,500 -15.93% 4
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 (2.00%) IIS
2 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.13%) Apache
4 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 190 (23.78%) Azure
2 155 (19.40%) AWS
3 74 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (4.13%) GCP
5 31 (3.88%) Cloud Computing
6 26 (3.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 23 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (2.50%) Entra ID
9 19 (2.38%) Amazon S3
9 19 (2.38%) Serverless
10 17 (2.13%) SaaS
11 16 (2.00%) IaaS
11 16 (2.00%) PaaS
12 15 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (1.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 151 (18.90%) Firewall
2 148 (18.52%) Network Security
3 65 (8.14%) WAN
4 36 (4.51%) SD-WAN
5 31 (3.88%) Intrusion Detection
6 27 (3.38%) LAN
6 27 (3.38%) TCP/IP
7 23 (2.88%) VPN
7 23 (2.88%) Wireshark
8 18 (2.25%) DNS
9 14 (1.75%) Internet
10 10 (1.25%) Wireless
11 7 (0.88%) VoIP
12 6 (0.75%) DMZ
12 6 (0.75%) SSL
13 5 (0.63%) 5G
14 4 (0.50%) tcpdump
14 4 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
15 3 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
15 3 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (1.50%) Power BI
3 6 (0.75%) 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 18 (2.25%) GitLab
2 12 (1.50%) JIRA
3 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.38%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.38%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.38%) sqlmap
5 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.13%) Git
6 1 (0.13%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 200 (25.03%) Finance
2 183 (22.90%) Social Skills
3 101 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.51%) Legal
5 48 (6.01%) Military
6 46 (5.76%) Retail
7 40 (5.01%) Law
8 33 (4.13%) Public Sector
9 27 (3.38%) Aerospace
10 26 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.75%) Telecoms
12 19 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (2.25%) Banking
14 16 (2.00%) Marketing
15 11 (1.38%) Aviation
16 10 (1.25%) Manufacturing
17 8 (1.00%) Advertising
17 8 (1.00%) Automotive
18 5 (0.63%) Retail Banking
19 4 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (19.77%) Analyst
2 128 (16.02%) Consultant
3 122 (15.27%) Security Consultant
4 117 (14.64%) Security Analyst
5 108 (13.52%) Senior
6 99 (12.39%) Security Specialist
7 96 (12.02%) Architect
8 95 (11.89%) Lead
9 81 (10.14%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 79 (9.89%) Security Engineer
11 77 (9.64%) Security Architect
12 71 (8.89%) Security Manager
13 67 (8.39%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 56 (7.01%) Information Analyst
14 56 (7.01%) Information Security Analyst
15 46 (5.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 36 (4.51%) Information Manager
17 34 (4.26%) Information Security Manager
17 34 (4.26%) Lead Architect
18 28 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (1.00%) Web Services
3 6 (0.75%) SAML
4 5 (0.63%) REST
5 4 (0.50%) Kafka
5 4 (0.50%) OAuth
5 4 (0.50%) SailPoint
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
1 157 (19.65%) Management Information System
2 85 (10.64%) Security Posture
3 84 (10.51%) Security Operations Centre
4 64 (8.01%) Cyber Threat
5 59 (7.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 56 (7.01%) Cyber Defence
7 47 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 32 (4.01%) Operational Technology
9 25 (3.13%) Cyberattack
9 25 (3.13%) Onboarding
10 22 (2.75%) Data Centre
11 21 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (2.25%) Cloud Native
12 18 (2.25%) Product Ownership
13 16 (2.00%) CESG
14 15 (1.88%) Public Cloud
15 14 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.50%) Cyber Security Posture
16 12 (1.50%) Private Cloud
17 11 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 70 (8.76%) Windows
2 38 (4.76%) Linux
3 25 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.88%) Unix
5 14 (1.75%) Android
5 14 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.63%) Windows 10
7 8 (1.00%) Kali Linux
8 7 (0.88%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.75%) 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 3 (0.38%) Windows XP
13 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.13%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (69.21%) Cybersecurity
2 452 (56.57%) Information Security
3 208 (26.03%) Risk Management
4 192 (24.03%) SIEM
5 164 (20.53%) Security Architecture
6 162 (20.28%) Security Operations
7 147 (18.40%) Cloud Security
8 143 (17.90%) Incident Response
9 141 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
10 109 (13.64%) Security Management
11 106 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
12 83 (10.39%) Agile
13 80 (10.01%) OWASP
14 77 (9.64%) Application Security
15 76 (9.51%) Incident Management
16 71 (8.89%) Information Security Management
17 70 (8.76%) Mentoring
18 67 (8.39%) Coaching
18 67 (8.39%) Data Loss Prevention
19 66 (8.26%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 56 (7.01%) Python
2 31 (3.88%) PowerShell
3 10 (1.25%) SQL
4 7 (0.88%) Bash
4 7 (0.88%) Java
5 6 (0.75%) C
5 6 (0.75%) R
5 6 (0.75%) Scala
6 4 (0.50%) C++
7 2 (0.25%) Go
8 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 283 (35.42%) CISSP
2 195 (24.41%) CISM
3 133 (16.65%) Security Cleared
4 129 (16.15%) Degree
5 95 (11.89%) CISA
6 90 (11.26%) Cisco Certification
7 86 (10.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 79 (9.89%) CCSP
9 76 (9.51%) AWS Certification
10 60 (7.51%) DV Cleared
11 56 (7.01%) Azure Certification
11 56 (7.01%) CCSK
12 55 (6.88%) CRISC
13 48 (6.01%) SC Cleared
14 38 (4.76%) CEH
15 31 (3.88%) PCI QSA
16 28 (3.50%) CompTIA Security+
17 27 (3.38%) SANS
18 26 (3.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
19 24 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 393 (49.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 177 (22.15%) GRC
3 132 (16.52%) PCI DSS
4 120 (15.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 114 (14.27%) GDPR
6 82 (10.26%) NIST 800
7 70 (8.76%) Def Stans
8 66 (8.26%) NCSC
9 44 (5.51%) COBIT
10 34 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 33 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 29 (3.63%) JSP 440
13 25 (3.13%) RMADS
13 25 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 16 (2.00%) SOC 2
15 15 (1.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 11 (1.38%) HIPAA
17 10 (1.25%) ISO 31000
18 8 (1.00%) ISO 22301
19 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 44 (5.51%) Docker
2 34 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 28 (3.50%) vSphere
4 14 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.00%) 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 50 (6.26%) Single Sign-On
2 41 (5.13%) Kubernetes
3 27 (3.38%) Terraform
4 18 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.75%) Nmap
6 13 (1.63%) CASB
7 7 (0.88%) Nessus
8 6 (0.75%) Ansible
8 6 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (0.63%) Suricata
10 4 (0.50%) QRadar
11 3 (0.38%) SELinux
12 2 (0.25%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.25%) Packer
13 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
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
1 147 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.63%) Splunk
3 31 (3.88%) Qualys
4 29 (3.63%) Tripwire
5 27 (3.38%) SolarWinds
5 27 (3.38%) Tanium
6 20 (2.50%) Cisco
7 17 (2.13%) Rapid7
8 14 (1.75%) Thycotic
9 12 (1.50%) Google
9 12 (1.50%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.38%) VMware
11 9 (1.13%) Fortinet
12 7 (0.88%) CA
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%) Dell