NIST Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 204 218 383
Rank change year-on-year +14 +165 +20
Contract jobs citing NIST 437 581 489
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.17% 1.24% 0.70%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.62% 9.14% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 408 348
10th Percentile £475 £458 £462
25th Percentile £525 £548 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% +6.25%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £738
90th Percentile £825 £838 £800
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 6
10th Percentile £45.09 £53.69 £63.17
25th Percentile £62.50 £59.73 £67.62
Median hourly rate £67.50 £68.42 £72.42
Median % change year-on-year -1.34% -5.53% +42.28%
75th Percentile £78.00 £74.09 £80.68
90th Percentile £79.20 £78.20 £82.77
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £71.08
% change year-on-year +5.23% -9.76% +39.65%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,067 6,357 9,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.51% 13.52% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,193 4,313 6,338
10th Percentile £300 £300 £290
25th Percentile £406 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 229 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.17 £12.56
25th Percentile £12.88 £20.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%
75th Percentile £51.31 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in England

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in England

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for NIST in England

NIST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NIST in England.

Hourly rate trend for NIST in England

NIST
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NIST in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for NIST in England

NIST
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the England 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
London +22 197 £675 -1.82% 105
South West +37 94 £600 -7.69% 27
North of England +13 73 £600 +4.35% 18
South East -11 53 £650 -7.14% 19
North West +13 44 £650 +18.18% 13
Midlands -7 37 £550 -4.35% 22
West Midlands -11 28 £550 -4.35% 15
Yorkshire +8 25 £582 -3.00% 5
East Midlands +10 7 £723 +17.96% 6
North East +12 4 £575 -4.17%
East of England -1 2 £400 -24.53% 4
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.14%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.92%) Apache Solr
2 4 (0.92%) Confluence
2 4 (0.92%) nginx
3 2 (0.46%) IIS
3 2 (0.46%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.23%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 72 (16.48%) Azure
2 62 (14.19%) AWS
3 28 (6.41%) SaaS
4 24 (5.49%) GCP
5 22 (5.03%) IaaS
6 18 (4.12%) PaaS
7 17 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (2.97%) Serverless
10 12 (2.75%) Azure Sentinel
10 12 (2.75%) Entra ID
11 11 (2.52%) GitHub
12 5 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.14%) AWS CloudTrail
12 5 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (0.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
15 2 (0.46%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 57 (13.04%) Network Security
2 43 (9.84%) Firewall
3 22 (5.03%) DNS
4 18 (4.12%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.29%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (1.83%) DHCP
6 8 (1.83%) Wireless
7 5 (1.14%) VPN
8 4 (0.92%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.92%) IPsec
9 2 (0.46%) Internet
9 2 (0.46%) PPP
9 2 (0.46%) SNMP
10 1 (0.23%) HTTP
10 1 (0.23%) Modbus
10 1 (0.23%) SMTP
10 1 (0.23%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.23%) VLAN
10 1 (0.23%) WAN
10 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.14%) MySQL
1 5 (1.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (0.92%) Couchbase
3 3 (0.69%) Big Data
4 2 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.46%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.23%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.23%) Redis
5 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.23%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.23%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (2.52%) JIRA
2 7 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.14%) Git
4 3 (0.69%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.46%) GitLab
5 2 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.46%) RStudio
6 1 (0.23%) Darcs
6 1 (0.23%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.23%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.23%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.23%) Travis CI
General
1 133 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 83 (18.99%) Finance
3 47 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.78%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.72%) Legal
6 24 (5.49%) Banking
7 17 (3.89%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.20%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.29%) Military
10 7 (1.60%) Retail
11 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.92%) Electronics
13 3 (0.69%) Marketing
14 2 (0.46%) Automotive
14 2 (0.46%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.46%) International Banking
14 2 (0.46%) Multimedia
14 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 115 (26.32%) Architect
2 81 (18.54%) Security Architect
3 72 (16.48%) Analyst
4 66 (15.10%) Consultant
5 52 (11.90%) Security Consultant
6 45 (10.30%) Lead
7 32 (7.32%) Security Engineer
8 26 (5.95%) Senior
9 24 (5.49%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 22 (5.03%) Security Manager
11 20 (4.58%) Project Manager
12 18 (4.12%) Technical Architect
13 17 (3.89%) Cyber Defence Analyst
13 17 (3.89%) Security Analyst
14 15 (3.43%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 15 (3.43%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 15 (3.43%) Senior Architect
15 14 (3.20%) Cloud Architect
15 14 (3.20%) SOC Analyst
16 13 (2.97%) Information Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (0.92%) JSON
3 4 (0.92%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (0.92%) YAML
4 3 (0.69%) CSS
4 3 (0.69%) Google JAX
4 3 (0.69%) HTML
4 3 (0.69%) PyTorch
4 3 (0.69%) SailPoint
4 3 (0.69%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.69%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.46%) EDI
5 2 (0.46%) Kafka
5 2 (0.46%) SAML
5 2 (0.46%) XML
6 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.23%) React
6 1 (0.23%) REST
6 1 (0.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 86 (19.68%) Cyber Threat
2 72 (16.48%) Management Information System
3 70 (16.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 63 (14.42%) Cyber Defence
5 45 (10.30%) Security Posture
6 26 (5.95%) Operational Technology
7 24 (5.49%) Security Operations Centre
8 23 (5.26%) Mobile App
9 20 (4.58%) IoT
10 12 (2.75%) Cloud Native
10 12 (2.75%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.75%) Product Ownership
11 11 (2.52%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.60%) CESG
12 7 (1.60%) Cyberattack
13 6 (1.37%) Cyber Security Posture
13 6 (1.37%) SCADA
14 4 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.69%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.61%) Linux
2 31 (7.09%) Windows
3 10 (2.29%) Mac OS X
3 10 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.06%) Unix
5 4 (0.92%) CentOS
6 2 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.46%) zOS
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (65.22%) Cybersecurity
2 178 (40.73%) Information Security
3 144 (32.95%) SIEM
4 97 (22.20%) Risk Management
5 92 (21.05%) Incident Response
6 89 (20.37%) Security Architecture
6 89 (20.37%) Use Case
7 85 (19.45%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 71 (16.25%) Incident Management
9 70 (16.02%) Cloud Security
10 67 (15.33%) Threat Intelligence
11 65 (14.87%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 60 (13.73%) Mentoring
13 58 (13.27%) SOAR
14 55 (12.59%) Vulnerability Management
15 54 (12.36%) Protective Monitoring
16 53 (12.13%) Roadmaps
16 53 (12.13%) Root Cause Analysis
17 51 (11.67%) Case Management
18 49 (11.21%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 25 (5.72%) Python
2 15 (3.43%) PowerShell
3 13 (2.97%) C#
4 12 (2.75%) Java
5 10 (2.29%) C++
6 9 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.14%) Go
7 5 (1.14%) R
8 4 (0.92%) C
8 4 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.92%) PHP
8 4 (0.92%) Search Processing Language
8 4 (0.92%) SQL
9 2 (0.46%) Bash
9 2 (0.46%) Bicep
10 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 161 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 100 (22.88%) CISSP
3 89 (20.37%) DV Cleared
4 81 (18.54%) CISM
5 74 (16.93%) SC Cleared
6 35 (8.01%) CISA
7 33 (7.55%) Degree
8 22 (5.03%) CEH
9 18 (4.12%) CREST Certified
10 17 (3.89%) GIAC
11 15 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (3.20%) ISACA
13 13 (2.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 13 (2.97%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (2.52%) CRISC
15 10 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
16 9 (2.06%) OSCP
16 9 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (1.83%) CCSK
17 8 (1.83%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (38.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 95 (21.74%) NIST 800
3 70 (16.02%) GDPR
4 47 (10.76%) PCI DSS
5 31 (7.09%) NCSC
6 29 (6.64%) HIPAA
7 27 (6.18%) GRC
8 20 (4.58%) COBIT
9 15 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 14 (3.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (2.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (1.60%) JSP 440
13 6 (1.37%) ISA99
13 6 (1.37%) QA
14 5 (1.14%) ISO 31000
14 5 (1.14%) RMADS
15 4 (0.92%) COSO
15 4 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.92%) SLA
16 3 (0.69%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 18 (4.12%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.75%) Docker
3 9 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.60%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.69%) Snort
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (7.78%) Terraform
2 20 (4.58%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.43%) logstash
4 14 (3.20%) Kibana
5 10 (2.29%) Ansible
6 7 (1.60%) SCCM
6 7 (1.60%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.14%) Nessus
8 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.92%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 2 (0.46%) CASB
9 2 (0.46%) Grafana
9 2 (0.46%) Packer
9 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.23%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 114 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.66%) Splunk
3 14 (3.20%) VMware
4 11 (2.52%) Google
4 11 (2.52%) LogRhythm
4 11 (2.52%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.29%) Rapid7
5 10 (2.29%) Tanium
6 7 (1.60%) Qualys
6 7 (1.60%) Veeam
7 6 (1.37%) SAP
8 5 (1.14%) Cisco
8 5 (1.14%) Okta
8 5 (1.14%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.92%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.92%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.69%) Darktrace
10 3 (0.69%) IBM
10 3 (0.69%) Oracle