NIST Jobs in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for NIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 306 324 456
Rank change year-on-year +18 +132 +18
Permanent jobs citing NIST 795 937 1,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.92% 1.06% 0.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.68% 5.50% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 658 653 670
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £84,919 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -3.57% +1.82% +5.77%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

NIST is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,901 17,029 22,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.76% 19.25% 16.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8,299 7,895 11,911
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,080 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for NIST in England

NIST
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in England

NIST
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +15 272 £75,000 - 96
South East 0 161 £50,500 -22.31% 47
North of England +79 150 £57,500 -2.95% 25
South West +27 107 £65,000 +0.39% 21
North West +35 94 £60,000 +20.00% 15
Midlands -52 72 £68,750 +10.00% 25
West Midlands -36 60 £70,000 +10.67% 19
Yorkshire +71 32 £55,000 -15.38% 7
North East +20 24 £42,500 -14.36% 3
East of England +3 17 £72,500 +3.57% 10
East Midlands -14 9 £47,500 -15.93% 6
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 16 (2.01%) IIS
2 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.13%) Apache
3 1 (0.13%) Confluence
3 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 187 (23.52%) Azure
2 151 (18.99%) AWS
3 75 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
4 31 (3.90%) GCP
5 26 (3.27%) Azure Sentinel
6 23 (2.89%) Microsoft Purview
6 23 (2.89%) SaaS
7 22 (2.77%) IaaS
7 22 (2.77%) PaaS
8 19 (2.39%) Entra ID
9 17 (2.14%) Amazon S3
9 17 (2.14%) Serverless
10 15 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (1.51%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 151 (18.99%) Network Security
2 149 (18.74%) Firewall
3 63 (7.92%) WAN
4 36 (4.53%) SD-WAN
5 33 (4.15%) Intrusion Detection
6 27 (3.40%) TCP/IP
7 25 (3.14%) LAN
8 23 (2.89%) VPN
9 20 (2.52%) Wireshark
10 17 (2.14%) DNS
11 14 (1.76%) Internet
12 10 (1.26%) Wireless
13 7 (0.88%) VoIP
14 6 (0.75%) DMZ
15 5 (0.63%) 5G
15 5 (0.63%) SSL
16 4 (0.50%) tcpdump
16 4 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
17 3 (0.38%) HTTP
17 3 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (1.51%) Power BI
3 6 (0.75%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.13%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.13%) Redis
4 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.01%) GitLab
2 11 (1.38%) JIRA
3 3 (0.38%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.38%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.38%) sqlmap
4 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.13%) Git
4 1 (0.13%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 196 (24.65%) Finance
2 180 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 101 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (7.30%) Legal
5 48 (6.04%) Military
6 46 (5.79%) Retail
7 39 (4.91%) Law
8 32 (4.03%) Public Sector
9 27 (3.40%) Aerospace
10 25 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.77%) Telecoms
12 19 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.01%) Banking
13 16 (2.01%) Marketing
14 11 (1.38%) Aviation
15 9 (1.13%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.01%) Automotive
17 6 (0.75%) Advertising
18 4 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 157 (19.75%) Analyst
2 129 (16.23%) Consultant
3 123 (15.47%) Security Consultant
4 117 (14.72%) Security Analyst
5 107 (13.46%) Senior
6 99 (12.45%) Security Specialist
7 95 (11.95%) Architect
8 92 (11.57%) Lead
9 81 (10.19%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 76 (9.56%) Security Architect
11 75 (9.43%) Security Manager
12 74 (9.31%) Security Engineer
13 65 (8.18%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 53 (6.67%) Information Analyst
14 53 (6.67%) Information Security Analyst
15 48 (6.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 37 (4.65%) Information Manager
17 35 (4.40%) Information Security Manager
18 34 (4.28%) Lead Architect
19 28 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (1.76%) Web Services
3 6 (0.75%) Middleware
4 5 (0.63%) REST
4 5 (0.63%) SAML
5 4 (0.50%) Kafka
5 4 (0.50%) OAuth
5 4 (0.50%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.38%) AWS SAM
6 3 (0.38%) Sass
6 3 (0.38%) SOAP
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.13%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.13%) CSS
8 1 (0.13%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.13%) NestJS
8 1 (0.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 162 (20.38%) Management Information System
2 84 (10.57%) Security Posture
3 83 (10.44%) Security Operations Centre
4 67 (8.43%) Cyber Threat
5 56 (7.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 55 (6.92%) Cyber Defence
7 47 (5.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 37 (4.65%) Operational Technology
9 24 (3.02%) Cyberattack
10 23 (2.89%) Onboarding
11 22 (2.77%) Data Centre
12 21 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (2.26%) Product Ownership
14 17 (2.14%) Cloud Native
15 16 (2.01%) CESG
16 15 (1.89%) Public Cloud
17 14 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
18 12 (1.51%) Private Cloud
19 11 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
19 11 (1.38%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (8.55%) Windows
2 38 (4.78%) Linux
3 23 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.76%) Android
4 14 (1.76%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.64%) Unix
5 13 (1.64%) Windows 10
6 8 (1.01%) Kali Linux
7 7 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.63%) CentOS
10 4 (0.50%) Solaris
10 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.50%) zOS
11 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.25%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.13%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (69.69%) Cybersecurity
2 454 (57.11%) Information Security
3 205 (25.79%) Risk Management
4 191 (24.03%) SIEM
5 171 (21.51%) Security Architecture
6 164 (20.63%) Security Operations
7 145 (18.24%) Vulnerability Management
8 141 (17.74%) Cloud Security
9 137 (17.23%) Incident Response
10 115 (14.47%) Security Management
11 104 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (10.31%) OWASP
13 80 (10.06%) Agile
13 80 (10.06%) Application Security
14 78 (9.81%) Information Security Management
15 73 (9.18%) Incident Management
16 71 (8.93%) Mentoring
17 69 (8.68%) Threat Intelligence
18 68 (8.55%) Computer Science
19 67 (8.43%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 51 (6.42%) Python
2 30 (3.77%) PowerShell
3 10 (1.26%) SQL
4 7 (0.88%) Bash
5 6 (0.75%) C
5 6 (0.75%) Java
5 6 (0.75%) R
5 6 (0.75%) Scala
6 3 (0.38%) C++
7 1 (0.13%) Go
7 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 280 (35.22%) CISSP
2 189 (23.77%) CISM
3 132 (16.60%) Security Cleared
4 130 (16.35%) Degree
5 93 (11.70%) CISA
5 93 (11.70%) Cisco Certification
6 89 (11.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 82 (10.31%) CCSP
8 73 (9.18%) AWS Certification
9 56 (7.04%) Azure Certification
9 56 (7.04%) CCSK
9 56 (7.04%) CRISC
9 56 (7.04%) DV Cleared
10 51 (6.42%) SC Cleared
11 37 (4.65%) CEH
12 32 (4.03%) PCI QSA
13 30 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
14 27 (3.40%) SANS
15 25 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
15 25 (3.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 396 (49.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 176 (22.14%) GRC
3 137 (17.23%) PCI DSS
4 121 (15.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 113 (14.21%) GDPR
6 80 (10.06%) NIST 800
7 70 (8.81%) Def Stans
8 67 (8.43%) NCSC
9 47 (5.91%) COBIT
10 34 (4.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 32 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 31 (3.90%) JSP 440
13 27 (3.40%) RMADS
14 23 (2.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (2.39%) SOC 2
16 15 (1.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 10 (1.26%) ISO 31000
18 9 (1.13%) HIPAA
19 7 (0.88%) COSO
19 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 42 (5.28%) Docker
2 33 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 27 (3.40%) vSphere
4 14 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.38%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) Snort
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (6.29%) Single Sign-On
2 40 (5.03%) Kubernetes
3 25 (3.14%) Terraform
4 18 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.76%) Nmap
6 12 (1.51%) CASB
7 7 (0.88%) Nessus
8 6 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (0.63%) Suricata
10 4 (0.50%) Ansible
10 4 (0.50%) QRadar
11 3 (0.38%) SELinux
12 2 (0.25%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.25%) Packer
13 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.13%) SCOM
13 1 (0.13%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 146 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.65%) Splunk
3 31 (3.90%) Qualys
4 28 (3.52%) Tanium
4 28 (3.52%) Tripwire
5 26 (3.27%) SolarWinds
6 19 (2.39%) Cisco
7 17 (2.14%) Rapid7
8 14 (1.76%) Thycotic
9 12 (1.51%) Google
9 12 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.26%) VMware
11 7 (0.88%) CA
11 7 (0.88%) Fortinet
11 7 (0.88%) Juniper
12 5 (0.63%) IBM
12 5 (0.63%) Intel
12 5 (0.63%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.50%) Citrix
13 4 (0.50%) Oracle