NIST Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 332 349 345
Rank change year-on-year +17 -4 +82
Permanent jobs citing NIST 551 523 688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.88% 0.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.72% 4.27% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 444 343 394
10th Percentile £38,825 £45,000 £39,400
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,250 £90,000
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
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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,636 12,241 12,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.60% 20.53% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,338 4,568 6,952
10th Percentile £25,625 £28,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,900
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.39% +0.84%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,400 £75,975
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 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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the UK excluding London 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
South East -12 159 £50,500 -22.31% 21
North of England +77 149 £57,500 -4.17% 22
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
Scotland -39 41 £60,000 +8.67% 4
Yorkshire +76 32 £55,000 -18.52% 5
North East +14 23 £42,500 -14.36% 4
East of England +3 18 £72,500 +3.57% 9
East Midlands -13 9 £47,500 -15.93% 6
Isle of Man -18 4 £46,500 -17.33% 2
Wales +12 1 £85,000 +54.55% 4
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 13 (2.36%) IIS
2 3 (0.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.18%) Apache
3 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 135 (24.50%) Azure
2 104 (18.87%) AWS
3 68 (12.34%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (3.63%) Cloud Computing
5 19 (3.45%) SaaS
6 18 (3.27%) IaaS
6 18 (3.27%) PaaS
7 17 (3.09%) Entra ID
8 12 (2.18%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (2.18%) Serverless
9 11 (2.00%) GCP
10 9 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (1.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 8 (1.45%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.45%) AWS CloudTrail
11 8 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 109 (19.78%) Network Security
2 79 (14.34%) Firewall
3 45 (8.17%) WAN
4 30 (5.44%) SD-WAN
5 25 (4.54%) VPN
6 22 (3.99%) Intrusion Detection
7 12 (2.18%) TCP/IP
8 11 (2.00%) LAN
9 10 (1.81%) Wireshark
10 9 (1.63%) Internet
11 6 (1.09%) DMZ
12 4 (0.73%) tcpdump
12 4 (0.73%) Wireless
13 3 (0.54%) HTTP
13 3 (0.54%) Modbus
13 3 (0.54%) PPP
13 3 (0.54%) VLAN
14 2 (0.36%) SAN
14 2 (0.36%) SMTP
14 2 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.73%) Power BI
3 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (2.18%) GitLab
2 10 (1.81%) JIRA
3 3 (0.54%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.54%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.54%) sqlmap
4 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.18%) Git
4 1 (0.18%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
General
1 115 (20.87%) Finance
2 108 (19.60%) Social Skills
3 68 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (7.44%) Retail
5 30 (5.44%) Legal
6 29 (5.26%) Military
7 28 (5.08%) Law
8 23 (4.17%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.63%) Aerospace
9 20 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.45%) Marketing
11 11 (2.00%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.81%) Aviation
13 8 (1.45%) Automotive
13 8 (1.45%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.73%) Banking
15 3 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.36%) Fire and Rescue
16 2 (0.36%) Local Government
16 2 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (17.79%) Consultant
2 96 (17.42%) Security Consultant
3 90 (16.33%) Security Specialist
4 88 (15.97%) Analyst
5 80 (14.52%) Lead
6 77 (13.97%) Architect
7 74 (13.43%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 69 (12.52%) Senior
9 63 (11.43%) Security Analyst
10 61 (11.07%) Security Architect
11 55 (9.98%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 54 (9.80%) Security Manager
13 48 (8.71%) Security Engineer
14 36 (6.53%) Lead Architect
15 30 (5.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 24 (4.36%) Information Manager
16 24 (4.36%) Information Security Manager
17 23 (4.17%) Lead Security Architect
17 23 (4.17%) Senior Architect
18 21 (3.81%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.54%) Web Services
2 10 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (1.45%) OAuth
3 8 (1.45%) SAML
4 6 (1.09%) Middleware
5 3 (0.54%) REST
5 3 (0.54%) SOAP
6 2 (0.36%) OpenID
6 2 (0.36%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.18%) CSS
7 1 (0.18%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.18%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 132 (23.96%) Management Information System
2 54 (9.80%) Security Operations Centre
3 45 (8.17%) Security Posture
4 39 (7.08%) Cyber Threat
5 38 (6.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 33 (5.99%) Operational Technology
7 30 (5.44%) Cyber Defence
8 22 (3.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 21 (3.81%) Data Centre
10 18 (3.27%) Cyberattack
11 17 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (3.09%) Public Cloud
12 16 (2.90%) CESG
12 16 (2.90%) Product Ownership
13 14 (2.54%) Onboarding
14 12 (2.18%) Private Cloud
14 12 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.81%) SCADA
16 7 (1.27%) Cloud Native
16 7 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.99%) Windows
2 18 (3.27%) Linux
3 17 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.45%) Kali Linux
6 6 (1.09%) Android
6 6 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.73%) Unix
8 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (74.23%) Cybersecurity
2 293 (53.18%) Information Security
3 148 (26.86%) Risk Management
4 116 (21.05%) Security Architecture
5 107 (19.42%) SIEM
6 103 (18.69%) Security Operations
7 101 (18.33%) Vulnerability Management
8 88 (15.97%) Cloud Security
8 88 (15.97%) Incident Response
9 75 (13.61%) Security Management
10 69 (12.52%) OWASP
11 65 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (11.43%) Application Security
13 61 (11.07%) Mentoring
14 57 (10.34%) Coaching
15 53 (9.62%) Information Assurance
16 49 (8.89%) Information Security Management
17 46 (8.35%) Computer Science
18 43 (7.80%) Project Management
19 41 (7.44%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 28 (5.08%) Python
2 20 (3.63%) PowerShell
3 9 (1.63%) SQL
4 6 (1.09%) C
4 6 (1.09%) Java
4 6 (1.09%) R
4 6 (1.09%) Scala
5 2 (0.36%) Bash
6 1 (0.18%) C++
6 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 179 (32.49%) CISSP
2 128 (23.23%) CISM
3 99 (17.97%) Security Cleared
4 94 (17.06%) Degree
5 54 (9.80%) Cisco Certification
6 52 (9.44%) AWS Certification
6 52 (9.44%) CCSP
7 51 (9.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 49 (8.89%) CISA
9 44 (7.99%) CCSK
10 41 (7.44%) Azure Certification
10 41 (7.44%) SC Cleared
11 38 (6.90%) DV Cleared
12 26 (4.72%) CRISC
13 20 (3.63%) CEH
14 17 (3.09%) CISMP
15 16 (2.90%) CompTIA Security+
15 16 (2.90%) SANS
16 15 (2.72%) PCI QSA
17 14 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (48.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 109 (19.78%) GRC
3 92 (16.70%) GDPR
4 87 (15.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 85 (15.43%) PCI DSS
6 70 (12.70%) Def Stans
7 68 (12.34%) NIST 800
8 52 (9.44%) NCSC
9 30 (5.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 29 (5.26%) COBIT
10 29 (5.26%) JSP 440
11 26 (4.72%) RMADS
12 24 (4.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 15 (2.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (2.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (1.63%) ISO 31000
15 9 (1.63%) SOC 2
16 7 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 5 (0.91%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.91%) TickIT
System Software
1 30 (5.44%) Docker
2 21 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.81%) vSphere
4 6 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.54%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.18%) Snort
Systems Management
1 40 (7.26%) Single Sign-On
2 36 (6.53%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.54%) Terraform
4 11 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.63%) CASB
6 8 (1.45%) Nessus
7 6 (1.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (1.09%) Nmap
8 5 (0.91%) Suricata
9 3 (0.54%) SELinux
10 2 (0.36%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.18%) Ansible
11 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 92 (16.70%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.81%) Splunk
3 15 (2.72%) Qualys
4 12 (2.18%) Cisco
4 12 (2.18%) Tanium
5 11 (2.00%) Tripwire
6 10 (1.81%) SolarWinds
7 9 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.45%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.09%) Thycotic
10 5 (0.91%) Intel
10 5 (0.91%) Juniper
10 5 (0.91%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.73%) Citrix
11 4 (0.73%) Dell
11 4 (0.73%) VMware
12 3 (0.54%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.54%) Google
12 3 (0.54%) Oracle
13 2 (0.36%) ForgeRock