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 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 336 358 342
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 +92
Permanent jobs citing NIST 550 491 704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.87% 0.95%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.62% 4.36% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 446 342 391
10th Percentile £39,375 £43,875 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,375 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £92,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%

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 9,782 11,254 12,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.88% 19.90% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,364 4,460 7,033
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,220 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £62,827
90th Percentile £76,250 £79,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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 1 June 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 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
South East -4 155 £50,500 -22.31% 25
North of England +79 153 £57,500 -4.17% 19
South West +25 107 £80,000 +18.52% 17
North West +31 95 £60,000 +20.00% 12
Midlands -52 74 £70,000 +16.67% 25
West Midlands -59 63 £72,500 +16.94% 19
Scotland -52 39 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Yorkshire +54 34 £55,000 -21.43% 6
North East +12 24 £42,500 -14.36% 1
East of England -6 17 £72,500 +3.57% 5
East Midlands -16 8 £47,500 -15.93% 6
Isle of Man -17 4 £46,500 -17.33% 1
Wales +7 1 £85,000 +54.55% 1
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 (0.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) Apache
4 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 135 (24.55%) Azure
2 111 (20.18%) AWS
3 62 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
4 18 (3.27%) Serverless
5 16 (2.91%) Entra ID
6 14 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (2.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 14 (2.55%) Amazon S3
6 14 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (2.55%) AWS CloudTrail
6 14 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (2.36%) GCP
8 11 (2.00%) SaaS
9 9 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (1.64%) IaaS
9 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (1.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (19.09%) Network Security
2 78 (14.18%) Firewall
3 44 (8.00%) WAN
4 30 (5.45%) SD-WAN
5 25 (4.55%) VPN
6 21 (3.82%) Intrusion Detection
7 12 (2.18%) TCP/IP
8 10 (1.82%) LAN
8 10 (1.82%) Wireshark
9 9 (1.64%) Internet
10 6 (1.09%) DMZ
11 4 (0.73%) DNS
11 4 (0.73%) tcpdump
12 3 (0.55%) HTTP
12 3 (0.55%) Modbus
12 3 (0.55%) PPP
12 3 (0.55%) VLAN
12 3 (0.55%) Wireless
13 2 (0.36%) SMTP
13 2 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.55%) 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 14 (2.55%) GitLab
2 12 (2.18%) JIRA
3 3 (0.55%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.55%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.55%) sqlmap
4 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.18%) Git
5 1 (0.18%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
General
1 120 (21.82%) Finance
2 107 (19.45%) Social Skills
3 69 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.64%) Retail
5 30 (5.45%) Legal
6 29 (5.27%) Military
7 27 (4.91%) Law
8 24 (4.36%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.64%) Aerospace
9 20 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.45%) Marketing
11 11 (2.00%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.82%) Aviation
13 8 (1.45%) Automotive
13 8 (1.45%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.73%) Banking
15 3 (0.55%) Advertising
15 3 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (17.45%) Consultant
2 94 (17.09%) Security Consultant
3 93 (16.91%) Analyst
4 90 (16.36%) Security Specialist
5 85 (15.45%) Lead
6 75 (13.64%) Architect
7 74 (13.45%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 66 (12.00%) Senior
9 62 (11.27%) Security Analyst
10 59 (10.73%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 59 (10.73%) Security Architect
11 54 (9.82%) Security Engineer
12 48 (8.73%) Security Manager
13 36 (6.55%) Lead Architect
14 29 (5.27%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 24 (4.36%) Information Manager
15 24 (4.36%) Information Security Manager
16 23 (4.18%) Lead Security Architect
16 23 (4.18%) Senior Architect
17 19 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (1.82%) SAML
3 8 (1.45%) OAuth
3 8 (1.45%) Web Services
4 3 (0.55%) REST
4 3 (0.55%) SOAP
5 2 (0.36%) OpenID
5 2 (0.36%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.18%) CSS
6 1 (0.18%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.18%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 127 (23.09%) Management Information System
2 54 (9.82%) Security Operations Centre
3 42 (7.64%) Security Posture
4 38 (6.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 36 (6.55%) Cyber Threat
6 32 (5.82%) Cyber Defence
7 27 (4.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 24 (4.36%) Operational Technology
9 21 (3.82%) Data Centre
10 18 (3.27%) Cyberattack
11 17 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (3.09%) Product Ownership
11 17 (3.09%) Public Cloud
12 16 (2.91%) CESG
13 14 (2.55%) Onboarding
14 12 (2.18%) Private Cloud
14 12 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (2.00%) PropTech
16 10 (1.82%) SCADA
17 6 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.82%) Windows
2 19 (3.45%) Linux
3 16 (2.91%) 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 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.55%) Unix
7 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (73.09%) Cybersecurity
2 281 (51.09%) Information Security
3 148 (26.91%) Risk Management
4 111 (20.18%) SIEM
5 108 (19.64%) Security Architecture
6 101 (18.36%) Security Operations
7 94 (17.09%) Vulnerability Management
8 92 (16.73%) Incident Response
9 89 (16.18%) Cloud Security
10 67 (12.18%) Security Management
11 66 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (11.64%) OWASP
13 62 (11.27%) Application Security
14 58 (10.55%) Mentoring
15 56 (10.18%) Coaching
16 51 (9.27%) Information Assurance
17 46 (8.36%) Computer Science
18 44 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
19 43 (7.82%) Project Management
20 42 (7.64%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (6.73%) Python
2 19 (3.45%) PowerShell
3 9 (1.64%) SQL
4 7 (1.27%) Java
5 6 (1.09%) C
5 6 (1.09%) R
5 6 (1.09%) Scala
6 2 (0.36%) Bash
6 2 (0.36%) C++
6 2 (0.36%) Go
7 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 178 (32.36%) CISSP
2 128 (23.27%) CISM
3 101 (18.36%) Security Cleared
4 97 (17.64%) Degree
5 58 (10.55%) AWS Certification
6 52 (9.45%) Cisco Certification
7 50 (9.09%) CCSP
7 50 (9.09%) CISA
8 49 (8.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 45 (8.18%) DV Cleared
10 43 (7.82%) CCSK
11 38 (6.91%) Azure Certification
12 36 (6.55%) SC Cleared
13 30 (5.45%) CRISC
14 21 (3.82%) CEH
15 17 (3.09%) CISMP
15 17 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
16 16 (2.91%) SANS
17 14 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
17 14 (2.55%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (46.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 108 (19.64%) GRC
3 88 (16.00%) GDPR
4 85 (15.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 82 (14.91%) PCI DSS
6 70 (12.73%) Def Stans
6 70 (12.73%) NIST 800
7 48 (8.73%) NCSC
8 29 (5.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 28 (5.09%) JSP 440
10 25 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 24 (4.36%) RMADS
12 23 (4.18%) COBIT
13 18 (3.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (2.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (1.64%) ISO 31000
15 9 (1.64%) SOC 2
16 7 (1.27%) HIPAA
16 7 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 6 (1.09%) COSO
System Software
1 32 (5.82%) Docker
2 19 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.36%) vSphere
4 6 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.55%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.18%) Snort
Systems Management
1 41 (7.45%) Single Sign-On
2 38 (6.91%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.91%) Terraform
4 11 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.64%) CASB
6 7 (1.27%) Nessus
7 6 (1.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (1.09%) Nmap
8 5 (0.91%) Suricata
9 3 (0.55%) Ansible
9 3 (0.55%) SELinux
10 2 (0.36%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.18%) Kibana
11 1 (0.18%) logstash
Vendors
1 92 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.82%) Splunk
3 14 (2.55%) Qualys
3 14 (2.55%) Tanium
3 14 (2.55%) Tripwire
4 13 (2.36%) SolarWinds
5 12 (2.18%) Cisco
6 9 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.45%) Rapid7
8 6 (1.09%) Thycotic
9 5 (0.91%) Intel
9 5 (0.91%) Juniper
9 5 (0.91%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.73%) Citrix
10 4 (0.73%) Dell
10 4 (0.73%) VMware
11 3 (0.55%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.55%) Google
11 3 (0.55%) Oracle
12 2 (0.36%) Atlassian