NIST Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 326 345 354
Rank change year-on-year +19 +9 +65
Permanent jobs citing NIST 552 519 687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.88% 0.95%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.73% 4.28% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 444 339 385
10th Percentile £39,125 £44,750 £39,450
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,144 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +16.66%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,575 £92,500 £90,000
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
UK excluding 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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,628 12,130 12,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.44% 20.51% 17.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,308 4,563 6,971
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,603
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.04% +0.22%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £76,250
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 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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the UK excluding 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East 0 161 £50,500 -22.31% 46
North of England +79 150 £57,500 -2.95% 27
South West +27 107 £65,000 +0.39% 21
North West +35 94 £60,000 +20.00% 16
Midlands -52 72 £68,750 +10.00% 24
West Midlands -36 60 £70,000 +10.67% 19
Scotland -51 40 £60,000 +8.67% 2
Yorkshire +71 32 £55,000 -15.38% 8
North East +20 24 £42,500 -14.36% 3
East of England +3 17 £72,500 +3.57% 11
East Midlands -14 9 £47,500 -15.93% 5
Isle of Man -18 4 £46,500 -17.33% 2
Wales +7 1 £85,000 +54.55% 3
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 13 (2.36%) IIS
2 3 (0.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.18%) Apache
3 1 (0.18%) Confluence
3 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 136 (24.64%) Azure
2 106 (19.20%) AWS
3 67 (12.14%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (3.62%) Cloud Computing
5 19 (3.44%) SaaS
6 17 (3.08%) Entra ID
6 17 (3.08%) IaaS
6 17 (3.08%) PaaS
7 14 (2.54%) Serverless
8 12 (2.17%) GCP
9 11 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (1.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 10 (1.81%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (1.81%) AWS CloudTrail
10 10 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 109 (19.75%) Network Security
2 79 (14.31%) Firewall
3 45 (8.15%) WAN
4 30 (5.43%) SD-WAN
5 25 (4.53%) VPN
6 21 (3.80%) Intrusion Detection
7 12 (2.17%) TCP/IP
8 11 (1.99%) LAN
9 10 (1.81%) Wireshark
10 9 (1.63%) Internet
11 6 (1.09%) DMZ
12 4 (0.72%) tcpdump
12 4 (0.72%) Wireless
13 3 (0.54%) DNS
13 3 (0.54%) HTTP
13 3 (0.54%) Modbus
13 3 (0.54%) PPP
13 3 (0.54%) VLAN
14 2 (0.36%) SMTP
14 2 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.72%) Power BI
3 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (2.36%) GitLab
2 11 (1.99%) JIRA
3 3 (0.54%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.54%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.54%) sqlmap
4 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.18%) Git
4 1 (0.18%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
General
1 118 (21.38%) Finance
2 107 (19.38%) Social Skills
3 69 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.61%) Retail
5 31 (5.62%) Legal
6 29 (5.25%) Military
7 28 (5.07%) Law
8 24 (4.35%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.62%) Aerospace
9 20 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.44%) Marketing
11 11 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.81%) Aviation
13 8 (1.45%) Automotive
13 8 (1.45%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.72%) Banking
15 3 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.36%) Advertising
16 2 (0.36%) Local Government
16 2 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (17.21%) Consultant
2 93 (16.85%) Security Consultant
3 90 (16.30%) Security Specialist
4 89 (16.12%) Analyst
5 81 (14.67%) Lead
6 77 (13.95%) Architect
7 74 (13.41%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 66 (11.96%) Senior
9 62 (11.23%) Security Analyst
10 61 (11.05%) Security Architect
11 54 (9.78%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 53 (9.60%) Security Manager
13 50 (9.06%) Security Engineer
14 36 (6.52%) Lead Architect
15 29 (5.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 25 (4.53%) Information Manager
16 25 (4.53%) Information Security Manager
17 23 (4.17%) Lead Security Architect
17 23 (4.17%) Senior Architect
18 19 (3.44%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.54%) Web Services
2 11 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (1.63%) SAML
4 8 (1.45%) OAuth
5 6 (1.09%) Middleware
6 3 (0.54%) REST
6 3 (0.54%) SOAP
7 2 (0.36%) OpenID
7 2 (0.36%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.18%) CSS
8 1 (0.18%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.18%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 131 (23.73%) Management Information System
2 52 (9.42%) Security Operations Centre
3 45 (8.15%) Security Posture
4 37 (6.70%) Cyber Threat
4 37 (6.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 30 (5.43%) Cyber Defence
5 30 (5.43%) Operational Technology
6 23 (4.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 21 (3.80%) Data Centre
8 18 (3.26%) Cyberattack
9 17 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (3.08%) Product Ownership
9 17 (3.08%) Public Cloud
10 16 (2.90%) CESG
11 14 (2.54%) Onboarding
12 12 (2.17%) Private Cloud
12 12 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.81%) SCADA
14 7 (1.27%) Cloud Native
14 7 (1.27%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.15%) Windows
2 19 (3.44%) Linux
3 17 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.99%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.45%) Kali Linux
6 6 (1.09%) Android
6 6 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.72%) Unix
8 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (73.55%) Cybersecurity
2 289 (52.36%) Information Security
3 149 (26.99%) Risk Management
4 116 (21.01%) Security Architecture
5 108 (19.57%) SIEM
6 101 (18.30%) Security Operations
7 100 (18.12%) Vulnerability Management
8 89 (16.12%) Cloud Security
8 89 (16.12%) Incident Response
9 75 (13.59%) Security Management
10 67 (12.14%) OWASP
11 66 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
12 61 (11.05%) Application Security
13 60 (10.87%) Mentoring
14 57 (10.33%) Coaching
15 53 (9.60%) Information Assurance
16 49 (8.88%) Information Security Management
17 45 (8.15%) Computer Science
18 43 (7.79%) Project Management
19 42 (7.61%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 31 (5.62%) Python
2 20 (3.62%) PowerShell
3 9 (1.63%) SQL
4 6 (1.09%) C
4 6 (1.09%) Java
4 6 (1.09%) R
4 6 (1.09%) Scala
5 2 (0.36%) Bash
6 1 (0.18%) C++
6 1 (0.18%) Go
6 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 178 (32.25%) CISSP
2 128 (23.19%) CISM
3 98 (17.75%) Security Cleared
4 96 (17.39%) Degree
5 54 (9.78%) AWS Certification
6 53 (9.60%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (9.24%) CCSP
8 50 (9.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 50 (9.06%) CISA
9 44 (7.97%) CCSK
10 40 (7.25%) Azure Certification
11 39 (7.07%) DV Cleared
11 39 (7.07%) SC Cleared
12 28 (5.07%) CRISC
13 20 (3.62%) CEH
14 17 (3.08%) CISMP
15 16 (2.90%) CompTIA Security+
15 16 (2.90%) SANS
16 15 (2.72%) PCI QSA
17 14 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (48.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 109 (19.75%) GRC
3 90 (16.30%) GDPR
4 88 (15.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 87 (15.76%) PCI DSS
6 70 (12.68%) Def Stans
7 68 (12.32%) NIST 800
8 49 (8.88%) NCSC
9 30 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 30 (5.43%) JSP 440
10 29 (5.25%) COBIT
11 26 (4.71%) RMADS
12 25 (4.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 16 (2.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (2.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (1.63%) ISO 31000
16 7 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 7 (1.27%) SOC 2
17 6 (1.09%) COSO
17 6 (1.09%) HIPAA
System Software
1 31 (5.62%) Docker
2 21 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.99%) vSphere
4 6 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.54%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.18%) Snort
Systems Management
1 41 (7.43%) Single Sign-On
2 37 (6.70%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.72%) Terraform
4 11 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.63%) CASB
6 7 (1.27%) Nessus
7 6 (1.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (1.09%) Nmap
8 5 (0.91%) Suricata
9 3 (0.54%) SELinux
10 2 (0.36%) Ansible
10 2 (0.36%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 93 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.80%) Splunk
3 14 (2.54%) Qualys
4 13 (2.36%) Tanium
5 12 (2.17%) Cisco
5 12 (2.17%) Tripwire
6 11 (1.99%) SolarWinds
7 9 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.45%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.09%) Thycotic
10 5 (0.91%) Intel
10 5 (0.91%) Juniper
10 5 (0.91%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.72%) Citrix
11 4 (0.72%) Dell
11 4 (0.72%) VMware
12 3 (0.54%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.54%) Google
12 3 (0.54%) Oracle
13 2 (0.36%) ForgeRock