NIST Jobs in the Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 201 258
Rank change year-on-year -52 +57 -55
Permanent jobs citing NIST 74 120 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.57% 1.40% 0.88%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.09% 5.55% 4.52%
Number of salaries quoted 70 106 50
10th Percentile £36,217 £46,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,810 2,163 2,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.86% 25.28% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 888 1,337
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,000 £27,575
25th Percentile £31,651 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% -2.13%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the Midlands

NIST
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for NIST in the Midlands

NIST
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in the Midlands

NIST
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
West Midlands -59 63 £72,500 +16.94% 19
East Midlands -16 8 £47,500 -15.93% 6
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.38%) AWS
2 14 (18.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 14 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
2 14 (18.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 14 (18.92%) Amazon S3
2 14 (18.92%) AWS CloudFormation
2 14 (18.92%) AWS CloudTrail
2 14 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
2 14 (18.92%) Serverless
2 14 (18.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 9 (12.16%) Azure
4 6 (8.11%) AWS Control Tower
4 6 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.70%) GCP
7 1 (1.35%) IaaS
7 1 (1.35%) PaaS
7 1 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.92%) Firewall
2 9 (12.16%) VPN
2 9 (12.16%) WAN
3 4 (5.41%) LAN
4 3 (4.05%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.70%) SAN
6 1 (1.35%) Network Security
6 1 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.92%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.41%) Power BI
3 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Burp Suite
1 3 (4.05%) Metasploit
1 3 (4.05%) sqlmap
2 2 (2.70%) GitLab
General
1 22 (29.73%) Finance
2 18 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.51%) Retail
4 8 (10.81%) Automotive
5 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Legal
7 2 (2.70%) Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Advertising
8 1 (1.35%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Law
8 1 (1.35%) Local Government
8 1 (1.35%) Marketing
8 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (28.38%) Security Engineer
2 15 (20.27%) Analyst
3 13 (17.57%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (17.57%) Security Analyst
4 11 (14.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Security Manager
5 9 (12.16%) Lead
6 8 (10.81%) Operations Analyst
6 8 (10.81%) Security Operations Analyst
7 6 (8.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Information Manager
7 6 (8.11%) Information Security Manager
7 6 (8.11%) Python Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Consultant
8 5 (6.76%) Information Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) Information Security Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) Security Consultant
9 4 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 4 (5.41%) Head of Security
10 3 (4.05%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.57%) Operational Technology
2 11 (14.86%) PropTech
3 10 (13.51%) Management Information System
4 9 (12.16%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (9.46%) SCADA
6 6 (8.11%) Data Centre
7 5 (6.76%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (4.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (2.70%) Private Cloud
9 2 (2.70%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.35%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.86%) Windows
2 8 (10.81%) Linux
3 2 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (60.81%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (59.46%) Information Security
3 28 (37.84%) Risk Management
4 24 (32.43%) Incident Response
5 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (21.62%) Threat Modelling
7 14 (18.92%) Security Operations
8 12 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (14.86%) DevSecOps
9 11 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (13.51%) Risk Assessment
10 10 (13.51%) Vulnerability Management
11 8 (10.81%) Cloud Security
11 8 (10.81%) Data Security
11 8 (10.81%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 6 (8.11%) Computer Science
12 6 (8.11%) Data Protection
12 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (8.11%) Security Architecture
13 5 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (36.49%) CISM
1 27 (36.49%) CISSP
2 17 (22.97%) AWS Certification
2 17 (22.97%) Degree
3 10 (13.51%) CISA
3 10 (13.51%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.76%) CRISC
4 5 (6.76%) PCI QSA
4 5 (6.76%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.41%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (4.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.05%) CCSK
6 3 (4.05%) CCSP
6 3 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.05%) SSCP
7 2 (2.70%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.35%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (72.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (17.57%) GDPR
3 12 (16.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (13.51%) PCI DSS
5 7 (9.46%) NIST 800
6 6 (8.11%) GRC
7 5 (6.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (5.41%) NCSC
9 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (2.70%) COBIT
10 2 (2.70%) ISO 22301
10 2 (2.70%) ISO 31000
10 2 (2.70%) ISO 9001
11 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
11 1 (1.35%) JSP 440
11 1 (1.35%) SLA
11 1 (1.35%) SOC 2
11 1 (1.35%) TickIT
System Software
1 3 (4.05%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.70%) Fortinet
2 2 (2.70%) Google
2 2 (2.70%) Rapid7
3 1 (1.35%) Facebook