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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 230 376
Rank change year-on-year +43 +146 -40
Contract jobs citing NIST 214 289 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.22% 1.11% 0.64%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.65% 8.43% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 207 177
10th Percentile £375 £485 £449
25th Percentile £500 £588 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £775 £781 £738
90th Percentile £825 £850 £808
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +9.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England 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
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 2,475 3,430 5,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.16% 13.18% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,746 2,480 3,522
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £651
90th Percentile £800 £798 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 37 85
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.55 £20.00
25th Percentile £17.85 £21.24 £25.25
Median hourly rate £24.18 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% -21.35% +122.50%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £57.13 £81.00 £68.25
England median hourly rate £22.42 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -40.21% +31.58% +35.71%

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 20 May 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 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +29 44 £625 -5.66% 14
East London -9 5 £627 -16.40% 22
West London -4 2 £438 -46.97% 1
South London - 2 £475 -
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 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.93%) IIS
2 2 (0.93%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.47%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 46 (21.50%) Azure
2 33 (15.42%) AWS
3 21 (9.81%) SaaS
4 19 (8.88%) IaaS
5 17 (7.94%) GCP
6 15 (7.01%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (7.01%) PaaS
7 14 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (6.07%) Serverless
9 8 (3.74%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (3.74%) GitHub
10 7 (3.27%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 1 (0.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.47%) AWS IoT
13 1 (0.47%) AWS KMS
13 1 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.47%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.21%) Firewall
2 18 (8.41%) Network Security
3 9 (4.21%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.80%) DNS
5 3 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.40%) Wireless
6 2 (0.93%) DMZ
6 2 (0.93%) SNMP
6 2 (0.93%) VPN
7 1 (0.47%) DHCP
7 1 (0.47%) HTTP
7 1 (0.47%) Internet
7 1 (0.47%) Modbus
7 1 (0.47%) SMTP
7 1 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (0.93%) Big Data
1 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.47%) CouchDB
2 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.47%) MySQL
2 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.47%) Redis
2 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (2.80%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.34%) JIRA
3 3 (1.40%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.93%) Git
4 2 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.93%) RStudio
5 1 (0.47%) Darcs
5 1 (0.47%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.47%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.47%) Travis CI
General
1 56 (26.17%) Finance
2 40 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.48%) Banking
5 15 (7.01%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.80%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.40%) Retail
9 2 (0.93%) International Banking
9 2 (0.93%) Local Government
9 2 (0.93%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.47%) Advertising
10 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 79 (36.92%) Architect
2 58 (27.10%) Security Architect
3 35 (16.36%) Consultant
4 30 (14.02%) Analyst
5 28 (13.08%) Security Consultant
6 20 (9.35%) Senior
6 20 (9.35%) Technical Architect
7 16 (7.48%) Security Analyst
8 15 (7.01%) Lead
9 14 (6.54%) Senior Architect
9 14 (6.54%) Senior Security Architect
10 13 (6.07%) Security Manager
11 11 (5.14%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (5.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 11 (5.14%) Security Engineer
12 10 (4.67%) Project Manager
13 9 (4.21%) Cloud Security Architect
14 8 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 8 (3.74%) Security Project Manager
15 7 (3.27%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.40%) CSS
1 3 (1.40%) HTML
2 2 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.93%) SailPoint
2 2 (0.93%) XML
3 1 (0.47%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.47%) EDI
3 1 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.47%) React
3 1 (0.47%) REST
3 1 (0.47%) RESTful
3 1 (0.47%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.88%) Security Posture
2 18 (8.41%) IoT
2 18 (8.41%) Mobile App
3 14 (6.54%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (5.61%) Operational Technology
5 10 (4.67%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.80%) SCADA
6 6 (2.80%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.40%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.93%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.93%) CMDB
9 2 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.93%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.61%) Windows
2 10 (4.67%) Linux
3 4 (1.87%) Unix
4 3 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (52.34%) Cybersecurity
2 64 (29.91%) Information Security
3 53 (24.77%) Security Architecture
4 47 (21.96%) Cloud Security
5 46 (21.50%) Risk Management
6 38 (17.76%) SIEM
7 30 (14.02%) DevSecOps
7 30 (14.02%) Roadmaps
8 29 (13.55%) Use Case
9 27 (12.62%) Data Protection
10 25 (11.68%) Incident Response
10 25 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (11.21%) Identity Access Management
11 24 (11.21%) Risk Assessment
12 23 (10.75%) Architectural Patterns
13 21 (9.81%) Application Security
13 21 (9.81%) Security Management
14 20 (9.35%) DevOps
14 20 (9.35%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (9.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.67%) Python
2 8 (3.74%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.34%) C#
4 4 (1.87%) Go
5 3 (1.40%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.40%) SQL
6 2 (0.93%) Bash
6 2 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.93%) R
6 2 (0.93%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.47%) C
7 1 (0.47%) C++
7 1 (0.47%) Java
7 1 (0.47%) Ruby
7 1 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 61 (28.50%) CISSP
2 47 (21.96%) CISM
3 23 (10.75%) CISA
4 18 (8.41%) Security Cleared
5 15 (7.01%) Degree
5 15 (7.01%) SC Cleared
6 13 (6.07%) CREST Certified
7 12 (5.61%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (5.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 11 (5.14%) CRISC
9 9 (4.21%) GIAC
9 9 (4.21%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (3.74%) CCSK
11 7 (3.27%) CEH
12 6 (2.80%) DV Cleared
13 5 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (2.34%) FFIEC
13 5 (2.34%) Master's Degree
13 5 (2.34%) SANS
14 4 (1.87%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (41.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (11.68%) GRC
3 24 (11.21%) PCI DSS
4 23 (10.75%) NCSC
5 22 (10.28%) GDPR
6 16 (7.48%) NIST 800
7 10 (4.67%) COBIT
8 9 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (2.80%) ISO 22301
9 6 (2.80%) ISO 31000
9 6 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.87%) HIPAA
12 3 (1.40%) GPG13
12 3 (1.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (1.40%) ISA99
13 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.93%) ISAE 3402
13 2 (0.93%) QA
13 2 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (4.21%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.80%) Docker
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (9.81%) Terraform
2 7 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.80%) Nessus
4 5 (2.34%) Ansible
5 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.40%) Kibana
6 3 (1.40%) logstash
7 2 (0.93%) CASB
7 2 (0.93%) Grafana
7 2 (0.93%) Packer
7 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.47%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.47%) Puppet
8 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.67%) LogRhythm
3 9 (4.21%) Rapid7
4 5 (2.34%) Google
4 5 (2.34%) Okta
4 5 (2.34%) Qualys
4 5 (2.34%) Splunk
5 4 (1.87%) Cisco
6 3 (1.40%) Darktrace
6 3 (1.40%) IBM
6 3 (1.40%) Oracle
7 2 (0.93%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.93%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.93%) Varonis
8 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.47%) Citrix
8 1 (0.47%) Lotus
8 1 (0.47%) McAfee
8 1 (0.47%) SAP