NIST Contracts in Central London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 124 167
Rank change year-on-year +28 +43 -19
Contract jobs citing NIST 41 53 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.69% 1.44% 0.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.98% 10.50% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 36 19
10th Percentile £340 £481 £350
25th Percentile £553 £561 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £623
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.42% -0.40%
75th Percentile £775 £763 £676
90th Percentile £875 £850 £808
London median daily rate £675 £688 £638
% change year-on-year -1.82% +7.84% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

NIST falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 411 505 657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.99% 13.76% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 369 414
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £564
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.43% +7.38%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £675
90th Percentile £765 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £17.96 - £20.88
25th Percentile £20.44 - £29.31
Median hourly rate £23.40 £25.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -50.98% +155.00%
75th Percentile £25.92 - £62.31
90th Percentile £35.16 - £64.13
London median hourly rate £24.18 £26.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -7.00% -41.57% +121.89%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Central London

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in Central London

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Central London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Central London

NIST
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 12 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
City of London +26 40 £625 -3.85% 15
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - -
NIST
London

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (2.44%) Confluence
1 1 (2.44%) IIS
1 1 (2.44%) Jupyter
1 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.51%) Azure
2 5 (12.20%) AWS
3 4 (9.76%) GCP
3 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.32%) GitHub
5 2 (4.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) DHCP
2 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (2.44%) Big Data
1 1 (2.44%) CouchDB
1 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.44%) MySQL
1 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.44%) Redis
1 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) CircleCI
1 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.88%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Darcs
2 1 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.44%) Mercurial
2 1 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.44%) RStudio
2 1 (2.44%) Travis CI
General
1 20 (48.78%) Finance
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.88%) International Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Consultant
2 8 (19.51%) Security Consultant
3 6 (14.63%) Lead
4 5 (12.20%) Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Information Security Consultant
5 4 (9.76%) Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Security Manager
6 3 (7.32%) IT Security Specialist
6 3 (7.32%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.32%) Risk Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Security Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Security Specialist
6 3 (7.32%) Senior
6 3 (7.32%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 2 (4.88%) IT Manager
7 2 (4.88%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Security Operations Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.44%) CSS
1 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.44%) HTML
1 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.44%) React
1 1 (2.44%) REST
1 1 (2.44%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.32%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.88%) PKI
4 2 (4.88%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.44%) CBDC
5 1 (2.44%) Digital Currency
5 1 (2.44%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
1 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
1 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (68.29%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (39.02%) Information Security
3 14 (34.15%) Risk Management
4 9 (21.95%) Identity Access Management
4 9 (21.95%) Validation
5 8 (19.51%) Due Diligence
5 8 (19.51%) Risk Assessment
6 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (14.63%) Data Protection
7 6 (14.63%) Performance Management
7 6 (14.63%) Security Architecture
8 5 (12.20%) Cyber Resilience
9 4 (9.76%) Coaching
9 4 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (9.76%) Incident Management
9 4 (9.76%) Information Security Governance
9 4 (9.76%) OWASP
10 3 (7.32%) Data Privacy
10 3 (7.32%) Mentoring
10 3 (7.32%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.44%) C
1 1 (2.44%) C#
1 1 (2.44%) C++
1 1 (2.44%) Go
1 1 (2.44%) Java
1 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
1 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.44%) Python
1 1 (2.44%) R
1 1 (2.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) CISSP
2 10 (24.39%) CISM
3 5 (12.20%) CRISC
3 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) CISA
4 2 (4.88%) Degree
4 2 (4.88%) FFIEC
5 1 (2.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.44%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (56.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (17.07%) PCI DSS
3 4 (9.76%) GRC
3 4 (9.76%) NIST 800
4 3 (7.32%) GDPR
4 3 (7.32%) ISO 31000
5 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.44%) ISAE 3402
5 1 (2.44%) ISO 20022
5 1 (2.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Terraform
2 2 (4.88%) Ansible
2 2 (4.88%) Kibana
2 2 (4.88%) logstash
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
3 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.44%) Packer
3 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Google
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.44%) Citrix
4 1 (2.44%) IBM
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Splunk
4 1 (2.44%) VMware