NIST Contracts in the UK excluding London

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 186 176 318
Rank change year-on-year -10 +142 +37
Contract jobs citing NIST 237 304 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.11% 1.34% 0.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.93% 9.05% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 219 146
10th Percentile £500 £462 £483
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £629
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.56% +11.73%
75th Percentile £674 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £803 £800
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile £45.09 £49.66 £63.17
25th Percentile £62.50 £59.73 £67.62
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £72.42
Median % change year-on-year +5.23% -11.43% +42.28%
75th Percentile £78.00 £71.88 £80.68
90th Percentile £79.20 £72.98 £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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,989 3,358 4,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.02% 14.80% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,712 2,194 3,095
10th Percentile £250 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 198 198
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.72 £18.02 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.18 £37.50 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.87% +67.45% +7.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.69 £48.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.18 £68.75
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
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
Scotland +42 12 £550 -12.00% 9
East Midlands +10 7 £723 +17.96% 6
North East +12 4 £575 -4.17%
Wales +17 2 £781 +35.87% 1
East of England -1 2 £400 -24.53% 4
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (1.69%) Apache Solr
1 4 (1.69%) Confluence
1 4 (1.69%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (10.97%) Azure
2 23 (9.70%) AWS
3 9 (3.80%) GCP
4 6 (2.53%) SaaS
5 5 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (1.69%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (1.69%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.27%) GitHub
7 3 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.84%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.84%) IaaS
8 2 (0.84%) PaaS
9 1 (0.42%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 37 (15.61%) Network Security
2 17 (7.17%) Firewall
3 16 (6.75%) DNS
4 15 (6.33%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.95%) DHCP
6 6 (2.53%) Wireless
7 4 (1.69%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.69%) IPsec
8 2 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.84%) PPP
8 2 (0.84%) VPN
9 1 (0.42%) Internet
9 1 (0.42%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.42%) WAN
9 1 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.69%) Couchbase
1 4 (1.69%) MySQL
1 4 (1.69%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.84%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.42%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.42%) Big Data
3 1 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (2.95%) JIRA
2 3 (1.27%) Git
3 2 (0.84%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.84%) GitLab
4 1 (0.42%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
General
1 94 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.50%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (10.13%) Finance
3 24 (10.13%) Legal
4 15 (6.33%) Telecoms
5 12 (5.06%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.80%) Military
7 6 (2.53%) Banking
8 5 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.69%) Electronics
10 3 (1.27%) Marketing
10 3 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Automotive
11 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.42%) French Language
12 1 (0.42%) German Language
12 1 (0.42%) Law
12 1 (0.42%) Local Government
12 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (21.10%) Analyst
2 41 (17.30%) Architect
3 37 (15.61%) Consultant
4 33 (13.92%) Lead
5 28 (11.81%) Security Architect
5 28 (11.81%) Security Consultant
6 17 (7.17%) Security Engineer
7 15 (6.33%) Cyber Defence Analyst
8 13 (5.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 12 (5.06%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 12 (5.06%) SOC Analyst
10 10 (4.22%) Senior
11 9 (3.80%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.80%) Security Analyst
12 8 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.38%) Information Security Consultant
12 8 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.38%) SOC Manager
12 8 (3.38%) Test Analyst
13 7 (2.95%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.69%) JSON
2 4 (1.69%) Kafka
2 4 (1.69%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.69%) YAML
3 3 (1.27%) Google JAX
3 3 (1.27%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.27%) scikit-learn
3 3 (1.27%) TensorFlow
4 2 (0.84%) SAML
5 1 (0.42%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.42%) OLE
5 1 (0.42%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 67 (28.27%) Management Information System
2 65 (27.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 65 (27.43%) Cyber Threat
3 58 (24.47%) Cyber Defence
4 28 (11.81%) Security Posture
5 18 (7.59%) Operational Technology
6 15 (6.33%) Security Operations Centre
7 11 (4.64%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.80%) Cloud Native
8 9 (3.80%) Data Centre
9 8 (3.38%) Cyber Security Posture
10 7 (2.95%) CESG
11 6 (2.53%) Cyberattack
11 6 (2.53%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.27%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.27%) IoT
12 3 (1.27%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.27%) SCADA
13 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.77%) Linux
2 23 (9.70%) Windows
3 10 (4.22%) Mac OS X
4 7 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.95%) Unix
4 7 (2.95%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.69%) CentOS
5 4 (1.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (75.53%) Cybersecurity
2 124 (52.32%) Information Security
3 101 (42.62%) SIEM
4 69 (29.11%) Incident Response
5 68 (28.69%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 64 (27.00%) Risk Management
7 60 (25.32%) Incident Management
8 59 (24.89%) Use Case
9 55 (23.21%) Mentoring
10 53 (22.36%) SOAR
10 53 (22.36%) Threat Intelligence
11 52 (21.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 50 (21.10%) Protective Monitoring
12 50 (21.10%) Root Cause Analysis
13 48 (20.25%) Case Management
14 45 (18.99%) CRM
15 39 (16.46%) Security Architecture
16 38 (16.03%) Vulnerability Management
17 27 (11.39%) Roadmaps
18 25 (10.55%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.49%) Python
2 11 (4.64%) Java
3 9 (3.80%) C#
3 9 (3.80%) C++
4 6 (2.53%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.69%) PHP
5 4 (1.69%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.27%) C
6 3 (1.27%) R
7 2 (0.84%) Go
7 2 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.84%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 136 (57.38%) Security Cleared
2 79 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 57 (24.05%) SC Cleared
4 50 (21.10%) CISSP
5 42 (17.72%) CISM
6 20 (8.44%) CISA
6 20 (8.44%) Degree
7 15 (6.33%) CEH
8 14 (5.91%) ISACA
9 10 (4.22%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (3.38%) CISMP
10 8 (3.38%) SSCP
11 7 (2.95%) CRISC
12 6 (2.53%) CESG Certified Professional
12 6 (2.53%) CREST Certified
12 6 (2.53%) GIAC
12 6 (2.53%) GPEN
12 6 (2.53%) OSCP
13 4 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.69%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (39.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 75 (31.65%) NIST 800
3 47 (19.83%) GDPR
4 23 (9.70%) HIPAA
5 21 (8.86%) PCI DSS
6 16 (6.75%) COBIT
7 14 (5.91%) NCSC
8 11 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 10 (4.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (4.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (3.38%) GRC
11 7 (2.95%) JSP 440
12 5 (2.11%) RMADS
13 4 (1.69%) COSO
13 4 (1.69%) QA
14 3 (1.27%) ISA99
14 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 2 (0.84%) ISO 31000
15 2 (0.84%) SLA
16 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (3.38%) Active Directory
1 8 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.95%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (2.95%) VMware NSX
3 5 (2.11%) Docker
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Snort
Systems Management
1 12 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.64%) Kibana
3 10 (4.22%) logstash
3 10 (4.22%) Terraform
4 7 (2.95%) SCCM
4 7 (2.95%) vCenter Server
5 6 (2.53%) Ansible
6 4 (1.69%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (32.49%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.06%) Splunk
3 11 (4.64%) VMware
4 10 (4.22%) Tanium
5 9 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.95%) Veeam
7 6 (2.53%) Google
8 5 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.11%) SAP
9 4 (1.69%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.69%) F5
9 4 (1.69%) Qualys
10 3 (1.27%) LogRhythm
11 2 (0.84%) Rapid7
12 1 (0.42%) Cadence
12 1 (0.42%) Cisco
12 1 (0.42%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.42%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.42%) Sophos
12 1 (0.42%) Teradata