National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 330 326 459
Rank change year-on-year -4 +133 +26
Permanent jobs citing NIST 868 1,006 1,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 1.03% 0.79%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.37% 5.58% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 711 716 787
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,250 £42,650
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £84,919 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,629 18,029 28,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 18.52% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,164 8,543 13,451
10th Percentile £26,750 £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% +4.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,825
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.55% +0.68%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the UK

NIST
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for NIST in the UK

NIST
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in the UK

NIST
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the UK 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
England +17 799 £67,500 -3.57% 172
UK excluding London +21 548 £60,000 -4.00% 95
Work from Home -27 309 £67,000 -4.29% 69
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
Scotland -46 39 £60,000 +8.67% 5
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
Isle of Man -15 4 £46,500 -17.33% 1
Wales +1 1 £85,000 +54.55% 1

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.84%) IIS
2 4 (0.46%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.23%) Confluence
4 1 (0.12%) Apache
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.46%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 221 (25.46%) Azure
2 173 (19.93%) AWS
3 93 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (4.26%) GCP
5 31 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
6 28 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 28 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 28 (3.23%) SaaS
7 26 (3.00%) IaaS
7 26 (3.00%) PaaS
8 24 (2.76%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (2.19%) Amazon S3
9 19 (2.19%) Serverless
10 15 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (1.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 165 (19.01%) Firewall
2 160 (18.43%) Network Security
3 66 (7.60%) WAN
4 37 (4.26%) Intrusion Detection
5 36 (4.15%) SD-WAN
6 33 (3.80%) VPN
7 28 (3.23%) LAN
7 28 (3.23%) TCP/IP
8 23 (2.65%) Wireshark
9 20 (2.30%) Internet
10 18 (2.07%) DNS
11 10 (1.15%) Wireless
12 7 (0.81%) VoIP
13 6 (0.69%) DMZ
13 6 (0.69%) SSL
14 5 (0.58%) 5G
15 4 (0.46%) tcpdump
15 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
16 3 (0.35%) Modbus
16 3 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (1.50%) Power BI
3 6 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (0.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.12%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.12%) Redis
4 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (2.07%) GitLab
2 12 (1.38%) JIRA
3 4 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.35%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.35%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.35%) sqlmap
5 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.12%) Git
6 1 (0.12%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 219 (25.23%) Finance
2 203 (23.39%) Social Skills
3 106 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (7.83%) Legal
5 52 (5.99%) Law
6 49 (5.65%) Military
7 46 (5.30%) Retail
8 39 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (3.92%) Public Sector
10 28 (3.23%) Aerospace
11 26 (3.00%) Marketing
12 23 (2.65%) Telecoms
13 21 (2.42%) Banking
14 19 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.61%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.27%) Aviation
17 8 (0.92%) Advertising
17 8 (0.92%) Automotive
18 6 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
19 5 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 171 (19.70%) Analyst
2 141 (16.24%) Consultant
3 135 (15.55%) Security Consultant
4 126 (14.52%) Security Analyst
5 119 (13.71%) Senior
6 113 (13.02%) Architect
7 101 (11.64%) Lead
8 100 (11.52%) Security Specialist
9 88 (10.14%) Security Architect
10 86 (9.91%) Security Engineer
11 81 (9.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
12 74 (8.53%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 72 (8.29%) Security Manager
14 56 (6.45%) Information Analyst
14 56 (6.45%) Information Security Analyst
15 53 (6.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 40 (4.61%) Lead Architect
17 36 (4.15%) Information Manager
18 34 (3.92%) Information Security Manager
19 30 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (1.61%) SAML
2 14 (1.61%) Web Services
3 12 (1.38%) OAuth
4 11 (1.27%) REST
5 9 (1.04%) SOAP
6 4 (0.46%) Kafka
6 4 (0.46%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.35%) AWS SAM
7 3 (0.35%) Sass
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.23%) OpenID
9 1 (0.12%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.12%) CSS
9 1 (0.12%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.12%) NestJS
9 1 (0.12%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 170 (19.59%) Management Information System
2 93 (10.71%) Security Posture
3 85 (9.79%) Security Operations Centre
4 66 (7.60%) Cyber Threat
5 60 (6.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 56 (6.45%) Cyber Defence
7 49 (5.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 38 (4.38%) Operational Technology
9 29 (3.34%) Cyberattack
10 25 (2.88%) Onboarding
10 25 (2.88%) Public Cloud
11 23 (2.65%) Data Centre
12 22 (2.53%) Product Ownership
13 21 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (2.19%) Cloud Native
15 17 (1.96%) CESG
16 14 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
17 12 (1.38%) Cyber Security Posture
17 12 (1.38%) Private Cloud
18 11 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 75 (8.64%) Windows
2 40 (4.61%) Linux
3 27 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.96%) Unix
5 14 (1.61%) Android
5 14 (1.61%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.50%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.92%) Kali Linux
8 7 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.58%) CentOS
11 4 (0.46%) Solaris
11 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.46%) zOS
12 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.35%) Windows XP
13 2 (0.23%) AIX
13 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.12%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (68.89%) Cybersecurity
2 481 (55.41%) Information Security
3 230 (26.50%) Risk Management
4 200 (23.04%) SIEM
5 177 (20.39%) Security Architecture
6 171 (19.70%) Security Operations
7 163 (18.78%) Cloud Security
8 157 (18.09%) Incident Response
9 155 (17.86%) Vulnerability Management
10 120 (13.82%) Security Management
11 119 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
12 91 (10.48%) Application Security
12 91 (10.48%) OWASP
13 83 (9.56%) Agile
14 81 (9.33%) Incident Management
15 79 (9.10%) Identity Access Management
15 79 (9.10%) Information Security Management
16 78 (8.99%) Computer Science
17 73 (8.41%) Mentoring
17 73 (8.41%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 57 (6.57%) Python
2 33 (3.80%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.84%) SQL
4 7 (0.81%) Bash
4 7 (0.81%) Java
5 6 (0.69%) C
5 6 (0.69%) R
5 6 (0.69%) Scala
6 5 (0.58%) C++
7 2 (0.23%) Go
8 1 (0.12%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 319 (36.75%) CISSP
2 222 (25.58%) CISM
3 143 (16.47%) Degree
4 139 (16.01%) Security Cleared
5 104 (11.98%) CISA
6 99 (11.41%) Cisco Certification
7 95 (10.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 88 (10.14%) CCSP
9 76 (8.76%) AWS Certification
10 61 (7.03%) DV Cleared
11 57 (6.57%) Azure Certification
11 57 (6.57%) CCSK
11 57 (6.57%) CRISC
12 53 (6.11%) SC Cleared
13 39 (4.49%) CEH
14 33 (3.80%) SANS
15 32 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
16 31 (3.57%) PCI QSA
17 28 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
18 26 (3.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 422 (48.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 177 (20.39%) GRC
3 133 (15.32%) PCI DSS
4 129 (14.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 128 (14.75%) GDPR
6 86 (9.91%) NIST 800
7 76 (8.76%) NCSC
8 70 (8.06%) Def Stans
9 55 (6.34%) COBIT
10 38 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 34 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 31 (3.57%) JSP 440
13 25 (2.88%) RMADS
13 25 (2.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (2.07%) SOC 2
15 15 (1.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 14 (1.61%) ISO 31000
17 13 (1.50%) HIPAA
18 9 (1.04%) ISO 22301
19 8 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 44 (5.07%) Docker
2 35 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 28 (3.23%) vSphere
4 14 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.35%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) Snort
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (5.99%) Single Sign-On
2 47 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 27 (3.11%) Terraform
4 19 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.61%) Nmap
6 13 (1.50%) CASB
6 13 (1.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 10 (1.15%) Nessus
8 6 (0.69%) Ansible
9 5 (0.58%) Suricata
10 4 (0.46%) QRadar
11 3 (0.35%) SELinux
12 2 (0.23%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.23%) Packer
12 2 (0.23%) SCCM
13 1 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.12%) SCOM
13 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 158 (18.20%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.49%) Splunk
3 32 (3.69%) Qualys
4 31 (3.57%) Tripwire
5 28 (3.23%) Cisco
6 27 (3.11%) SolarWinds
6 27 (3.11%) Tanium
7 17 (1.96%) Rapid7
8 15 (1.73%) Fortinet
9 14 (1.61%) Thycotic
10 12 (1.38%) Google
10 12 (1.38%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.27%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.27%) VMware
12 8 (0.92%) CA
12 8 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (0.92%) Zscaler
13 7 (0.81%) Juniper
13 7 (0.81%) Symantec
14 6 (0.69%) CheckPoint