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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 333 464
Rank change year-on-year -2 +131 +10
Permanent jobs citing NIST 863 1,027 1,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 1.04% 0.79%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.35% 5.48% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 701 719 765
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,250 £42,500
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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +18.18%

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 13,596 18,747 27,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.61% 18.90% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,193 8,688 13,219
10th Percentile £27,000 £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% +3.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,626
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.98% +0.27%

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 18 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 18 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 +14 793 £67,000 -4.29% 190
UK excluding London +9 550 £60,000 -4.00% 118
Work from Home -40 307 £67,000 -4.29% 86
London +18 272 £75,000 - 81
South East -7 161 £50,500 -22.31% 36
North of England +95 149 £57,500 -2.95% 23
South West +23 107 £65,000 +0.39% 17
North West +41 93 £60,000 +20.00% 15
Midlands -55 70 £67,000 +7.20% 25
West Midlands -43 58 £70,000 +9.38% 19
Scotland -49 40 £60,000 +8.67% 5
Yorkshire +72 32 £55,000 -15.38% 5
North East +15 24 £42,500 -14.36% 3
East of England +2 18 £72,500 +3.57% 10
East Midlands -4 9 £47,500 -15.93% 6
Isle of Man -18 4 £46,500 -17.33% 2
Wales +5 1 £85,000 +54.55% 2

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 (1.85%) IIS
2 4 (0.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.12%) Apache
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.46%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 218 (25.26%) Azure
2 167 (19.35%) AWS
3 95 (11.01%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (4.06%) SaaS
5 34 (3.94%) GCP
6 33 (3.82%) IaaS
6 33 (3.82%) PaaS
7 31 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
8 28 (3.24%) Azure Sentinel
8 28 (3.24%) Entra ID
9 25 (2.90%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (1.85%) Amazon S3
10 16 (1.85%) Serverless
11 14 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (1.51%) Power Platform
13 12 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 163 (18.89%) Firewall
1 163 (18.89%) Network Security
2 64 (7.42%) WAN
3 39 (4.52%) Intrusion Detection
4 36 (4.17%) SD-WAN
5 33 (3.82%) VPN
6 28 (3.24%) TCP/IP
7 26 (3.01%) LAN
8 20 (2.32%) Internet
8 20 (2.32%) Wireshark
9 16 (1.85%) DNS
10 10 (1.16%) Wireless
11 7 (0.81%) VoIP
12 6 (0.70%) DMZ
13 5 (0.58%) 5G
13 5 (0.58%) SSL
14 4 (0.46%) tcpdump
14 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
15 3 (0.35%) Modbus
15 3 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.51%) Power BI
2 12 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (0.70%) 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 15 (1.74%) GitLab
2 10 (1.16%) JIRA
3 3 (0.35%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.35%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.35%) sqlmap
4 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.12%) Git
4 1 (0.12%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 215 (24.91%) Finance
2 200 (23.17%) Social Skills
3 106 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (7.65%) Legal
5 51 (5.91%) Law
6 49 (5.68%) Military
7 46 (5.33%) Retail
8 38 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (3.71%) Public Sector
10 28 (3.24%) Aerospace
11 26 (3.01%) Marketing
12 23 (2.67%) Telecoms
13 19 (2.20%) Banking
13 19 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.51%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.27%) Aviation
16 8 (0.93%) Automotive
17 6 (0.70%) Advertising
17 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 170 (19.70%) Analyst
2 142 (16.45%) Consultant
3 136 (15.76%) Security Consultant
4 126 (14.60%) Security Analyst
5 118 (13.67%) Senior
6 112 (12.98%) Architect
7 100 (11.59%) Security Specialist
8 98 (11.36%) Lead
9 87 (10.08%) Security Architect
10 81 (9.39%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 81 (9.39%) Security Engineer
11 76 (8.81%) Security Manager
12 72 (8.34%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 55 (6.37%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 53 (6.14%) Information Analyst
14 53 (6.14%) Information Security Analyst
15 40 (4.63%) Lead Architect
16 37 (4.29%) Information Manager
17 35 (4.06%) Information Security Manager
18 30 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.36%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (2.32%) Web Services
3 12 (1.39%) OAuth
3 12 (1.39%) SAML
4 11 (1.27%) REST
5 9 (1.04%) SOAP
6 6 (0.70%) Middleware
7 4 (0.46%) Kafka
7 4 (0.46%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.35%) AWS SAM
8 3 (0.35%) Sass
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.23%) OpenID
10 1 (0.12%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.12%) CSS
10 1 (0.12%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.12%) NestJS
10 1 (0.12%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 175 (20.28%) Management Information System
2 92 (10.66%) Security Posture
3 85 (9.85%) Security Operations Centre
4 70 (8.11%) Cyber Threat
5 57 (6.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 55 (6.37%) Cyber Defence
7 49 (5.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 44 (5.10%) Operational Technology
9 28 (3.24%) Cyberattack
10 25 (2.90%) Public Cloud
11 23 (2.67%) Data Centre
11 23 (2.67%) Onboarding
12 21 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (2.43%) Product Ownership
13 18 (2.09%) Cloud Native
14 17 (1.97%) CESG
15 14 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.39%) Private Cloud
17 11 (1.27%) IoT
17 11 (1.27%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 74 (8.57%) Windows
2 40 (4.63%) Linux
3 26 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.74%) Unix
5 14 (1.62%) Android
5 14 (1.62%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.51%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.93%) Kali Linux
8 7 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.70%) 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
13 2 (0.23%) AIX
13 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.23%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.12%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 601 (69.64%) Cybersecurity
2 484 (56.08%) Information Security
3 228 (26.42%) Risk Management
4 199 (23.06%) SIEM
5 184 (21.32%) Security Architecture
6 173 (20.05%) Security Operations
7 160 (18.54%) Vulnerability Management
8 157 (18.19%) Cloud Security
9 150 (17.38%) Incident Response
10 126 (14.60%) Security Management
11 117 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
12 94 (10.89%) Application Security
12 94 (10.89%) OWASP
13 86 (9.97%) Information Security Management
14 80 (9.27%) Agile
14 80 (9.27%) Computer Science
15 79 (9.15%) Identity Access Management
16 78 (9.04%) Incident Management
17 75 (8.69%) Mentoring
18 74 (8.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 50 (5.79%) Python
2 32 (3.71%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.85%) SQL
4 7 (0.81%) Bash
5 6 (0.70%) C
5 6 (0.70%) Java
5 6 (0.70%) R
5 6 (0.70%) Scala
6 4 (0.46%) C++
7 1 (0.12%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 317 (36.73%) CISSP
2 217 (25.14%) CISM
3 144 (16.69%) Degree
4 137 (15.87%) Security Cleared
5 102 (11.82%) CISA
5 102 (11.82%) Cisco Certification
6 98 (11.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 91 (10.54%) CCSP
8 72 (8.34%) AWS Certification
9 58 (6.72%) Azure Certification
9 58 (6.72%) CRISC
10 57 (6.60%) CCSK
11 56 (6.49%) DV Cleared
11 56 (6.49%) SC Cleared
12 38 (4.40%) CEH
13 33 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
13 33 (3.82%) SANS
14 32 (3.71%) PCI QSA
15 30 (3.48%) CompTIA Security+
16 25 (2.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 424 (49.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 176 (20.39%) GRC
3 137 (15.87%) PCI DSS
4 129 (14.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 128 (14.83%) GDPR
6 84 (9.73%) NIST 800
7 77 (8.92%) NCSC
8 70 (8.11%) Def Stans
9 58 (6.72%) COBIT
10 37 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 34 (3.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 32 (3.71%) JSP 440
13 27 (3.13%) RMADS
14 23 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 21 (2.43%) SOC 2
16 15 (1.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 14 (1.62%) ISO 31000
18 11 (1.27%) HIPAA
19 8 (0.93%) ISO 22301
19 8 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 41 (4.75%) Docker
2 35 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 27 (3.13%) vSphere
4 14 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.93%) 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 (6.03%) Single Sign-On
2 45 (5.21%) Kubernetes
3 24 (2.78%) Terraform
4 19 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.62%) Nmap
6 13 (1.51%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 12 (1.39%) CASB
8 10 (1.16%) Nessus
9 5 (0.58%) Suricata
10 4 (0.46%) QRadar
11 3 (0.35%) Ansible
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%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.12%) SCOM
13 1 (0.12%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 158 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.52%) Splunk
3 33 (3.82%) Qualys
4 30 (3.48%) Tripwire
5 28 (3.24%) Tanium
6 27 (3.13%) Cisco
7 26 (3.01%) SolarWinds
8 17 (1.97%) Rapid7
9 14 (1.62%) Thycotic
10 13 (1.51%) Fortinet
11 12 (1.39%) Google
11 12 (1.39%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 10 (1.16%) VMware
14 8 (0.93%) CA
14 8 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.93%) Zscaler
15 7 (0.81%) Juniper
15 7 (0.81%) Symantec
16 6 (0.70%) Blue Coat