NIST Contracts in London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for NIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates 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 200 232 370
Rank change year-on-year +32 +138 -42
Contract jobs citing NIST 202 289 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.15% 1.14% 0.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.27% 8.52% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 209 178
10th Percentile £375 £473 £450
25th Percentile £513 £588 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £775 £800 £738
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £72.42
% change year-on-year +5.23% -11.43% +42.28%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,444 3,392 4,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.96% 13.34% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,722 2,466 3,472
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +9.89%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £656
90th Percentile £800 £798 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 38 84
10th Percentile £13.29 £19.33 £20.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.24 £25.11
Median hourly rate £24.18 £26.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -41.01% +122.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.81 £49.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £80.75 £68.38
England median hourly rate £23.80 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -44.00% +54.55% +33.92%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in London

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in London.

Daily rate trend for NIST in London

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in London

NIST
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +24 41 £625 -7.41% 11
East London -13 4 £629 -16.20% 2
West London -3 2 £438 -46.97%
South London - 1 - -
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.99%) IIS
2 2 (0.99%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.50%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 41 (20.30%) Azure
2 33 (16.34%) AWS
3 22 (10.89%) SaaS
4 20 (9.90%) IaaS
5 16 (7.92%) GCP
5 16 (7.92%) PaaS
6 14 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (6.44%) Serverless
8 8 (3.96%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.96%) GitHub
9 7 (3.47%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (0.50%) AWS IoT
13 1 (0.50%) AWS KMS
13 1 (0.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 1 (0.50%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.89%) Firewall
2 19 (9.41%) Network Security
3 6 (2.97%) DNS
3 6 (2.97%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.49%) VPN
5 2 (0.99%) SNMP
5 2 (0.99%) Wireless
6 1 (0.50%) DHCP
6 1 (0.50%) HTTP
6 1 (0.50%) Internet
6 1 (0.50%) Modbus
6 1 (0.50%) SMTP
6 1 (0.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (0.99%) Big Data
1 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.50%) CouchDB
2 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.50%) MySQL
2 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.50%) Redis
2 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.48%) JIRA
3 3 (1.49%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.99%) Git
4 2 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.99%) RStudio
5 1 (0.50%) Darcs
5 1 (0.50%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.50%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.50%) Travis CI
General
1 52 (25.74%) Finance
2 39 (19.31%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.92%) Banking
5 10 (4.95%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.98%) Retail
8 3 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Advertising
9 2 (0.99%) International Banking
9 2 (0.99%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (35.64%) Architect
2 52 (25.74%) Security Architect
3 32 (15.84%) Consultant
4 26 (12.87%) Security Consultant
5 25 (12.38%) Analyst
6 18 (8.91%) Senior
6 18 (8.91%) Technical Architect
7 15 (7.43%) Security Manager
8 14 (6.93%) Security Engineer
9 13 (6.44%) Lead
10 12 (5.94%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 12 (5.94%) Senior Architect
10 12 (5.94%) Senior Security Architect
11 11 (5.45%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (5.45%) Project Manager
11 11 (5.45%) Security Analyst
12 9 (4.46%) Cloud Security Architect
13 8 (3.96%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 8 (3.96%) Security Project Manager
14 7 (3.47%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.49%) CSS
1 3 (1.49%) HTML
2 2 (0.99%) EDI
2 2 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.99%) SailPoint
2 2 (0.99%) XML
3 1 (0.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.50%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.50%) React
3 1 (0.50%) REST
3 1 (0.50%) RESTful
3 1 (0.50%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.91%) Security Posture
2 17 (8.42%) IoT
2 17 (8.42%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.94%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (4.95%) Operational Technology
5 9 (4.46%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.46%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.47%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.98%) SCADA
8 3 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.99%) CMDB
9 2 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (0.99%) Industry 4.0
9 2 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.46%) Windows
2 7 (3.47%) Linux
3 3 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.99%) Unix
4 2 (0.99%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (53.47%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (28.71%) Information Security
3 51 (25.25%) Security Architecture
4 45 (22.28%) Cloud Security
5 42 (20.79%) Risk Management
6 35 (17.33%) SIEM
7 30 (14.85%) DevSecOps
8 27 (13.37%) Data Protection
8 27 (13.37%) Roadmaps
8 27 (13.37%) Use Case
9 24 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (11.39%) Architectural Patterns
10 23 (11.39%) Identity Access Management
10 23 (11.39%) Incident Response
10 23 (11.39%) Risk Assessment
11 21 (10.40%) Application Security
11 21 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (9.41%) DevOps
13 18 (8.91%) Security Operations
13 18 (8.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.95%) Python
2 9 (4.46%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.98%) C#
4 3 (1.49%) Go
4 3 (1.49%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.49%) SQL
5 2 (0.99%) Bash
5 2 (0.99%) Bicep
5 2 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.99%) R
5 2 (0.99%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (0.50%) C
6 1 (0.50%) C++
6 1 (0.50%) Java
6 1 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (29.70%) CISSP
2 46 (22.77%) CISM
3 23 (11.39%) Security Cleared
4 21 (10.40%) CISA
5 20 (9.90%) SC Cleared
6 13 (6.44%) Degree
7 12 (5.94%) CREST Certified
8 11 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (5.45%) CRISC
9 10 (4.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (4.46%) GIAC
10 9 (4.46%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (3.47%) CCSK
11 7 (3.47%) CEH
12 6 (2.97%) DV Cleared
12 6 (2.97%) SANS
13 5 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (2.48%) FFIEC
13 5 (2.48%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.98%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (40.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (11.39%) GDPR
2 23 (11.39%) PCI DSS
3 20 (9.90%) GRC
3 20 (9.90%) NCSC
4 16 (7.92%) NIST 800
5 7 (3.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.97%) COBIT
6 6 (2.97%) ISO 31000
6 6 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.98%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.98%) ISO 22301
8 3 (1.49%) GPG13
8 3 (1.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (1.49%) ISA99
9 2 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.99%) ISAE 3402
9 2 (0.99%) QA
9 2 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (4.95%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.48%) Docker
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (10.89%) Terraform
2 6 (2.97%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.48%) Nessus
4 4 (1.98%) Ansible
4 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.49%) Kibana
5 3 (1.49%) logstash
6 2 (0.99%) CASB
6 2 (0.99%) Grafana
6 2 (0.99%) Packer
6 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.50%) Puppet
7 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (15.35%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.96%) LogRhythm
2 8 (3.96%) Rapid7
3 6 (2.97%) Google
4 5 (2.48%) Okta
4 5 (2.48%) Qualys
5 4 (1.98%) Cisco
5 4 (1.98%) Splunk
6 3 (1.49%) IBM
6 3 (1.49%) Oracle
7 2 (0.99%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.99%) Darktrace
7 2 (0.99%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.99%) Varonis
8 1 (0.50%) Databricks
8 1 (0.50%) ForeScout
8 1 (0.50%) Netskope
8 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.50%) Workday