National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 331 471
Rank change year-on-year +4 +140 -2
Permanent jobs citing NIST 866 970 1,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 1.03% 0.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.25% 5.68% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 706 710 779
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £84,919 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,125 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,851 17,091 29,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.95% 18.21% 17.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9,243 8,393 13,532
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,000 £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% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the UK

NIST
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for NIST in the UK

NIST
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in the UK

NIST
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +4 799 £67,500 -3.57% 165
UK excluding London +16 552 £60,000 -4.00% 95
Work from Home -45 307 £67,000 -4.29% 72
London -1 279 £75,000 - 64
South East +12 156 £50,500 -22.31% 18
North of England +61 153 £57,500 -4.17% 16
South West +16 106 £90,000 +33.33% 25
North West +21 94 £60,000 +14.29% 11
Midlands -51 76 £70,000 +16.67% 24
West Midlands -64 65 £71,250 +14.00% 16
Scotland -61 39 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Yorkshire +60 34 £55,000 -21.43% 5
North East +6 25 £42,500 -14.36%
East of England -21 17 £72,500 +3.57% 5
East Midlands -23 8 £47,500 -15.93% 8
Isle of Man -16 4 £46,500 -17.33%
Wales +8 1 £85,000 +54.55% 1

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (1.73%) IIS
2 4 (0.46%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.23%) Confluence
4 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.46%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 218 (25.17%) Azure
2 178 (20.55%) AWS
3 85 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.50%) GCP
5 28 (3.23%) SaaS
6 27 (3.12%) Entra ID
7 25 (2.89%) Azure Sentinel
7 25 (2.89%) Cloud Computing
7 25 (2.89%) IaaS
7 25 (2.89%) PaaS
8 21 (2.42%) Amazon S3
8 21 (2.42%) Serverless
9 20 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
10 17 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (1.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 14 (1.62%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 159 (18.36%) Network Security
2 156 (18.01%) Firewall
3 63 (7.27%) WAN
4 36 (4.16%) SD-WAN
5 35 (4.04%) Intrusion Detection
6 30 (3.46%) VPN
7 25 (2.89%) LAN
8 24 (2.77%) TCP/IP
8 24 (2.77%) Wireshark
9 18 (2.08%) DNS
9 18 (2.08%) Internet
10 8 (0.92%) Wireless
11 7 (0.81%) SSL
11 7 (0.81%) VoIP
12 6 (0.69%) DMZ
13 5 (0.58%) 5G
13 5 (0.58%) BGP
13 5 (0.58%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 5 (0.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 5 (0.58%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (1.50%) Power BI
3 6 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (0.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.12%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.12%) Redis
4 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (2.08%) GitLab
2 12 (1.39%) JIRA
3 4 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.35%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.35%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.35%) sqlmap
5 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.12%) Git
6 1 (0.12%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 222 (25.64%) Finance
2 203 (23.44%) Social Skills
3 108 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.74%) Legal
5 51 (5.89%) Law
6 50 (5.77%) Military
7 46 (5.31%) Retail
8 42 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (3.46%) Public Sector
10 27 (3.12%) Aerospace
11 26 (3.00%) Marketing
12 24 (2.77%) Banking
13 22 (2.54%) Telecoms
14 19 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.50%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.27%) Aviation
17 8 (0.92%) Advertising
17 8 (0.92%) Automotive
18 7 (0.81%) Retail Banking
19 6 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (19.75%) Analyst
2 137 (15.82%) Consultant
3 131 (15.13%) Security Consultant
4 124 (14.32%) Security Analyst
5 119 (13.74%) Senior
6 113 (13.05%) Architect
7 102 (11.78%) Lead
8 100 (11.55%) Security Specialist
9 88 (10.16%) Security Engineer
10 86 (9.93%) Security Architect
11 81 (9.35%) Cybersecurity Specialist
12 80 (9.24%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 69 (7.97%) Security Manager
14 55 (6.35%) Information Analyst
14 55 (6.35%) Information Security Analyst
15 52 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 40 (4.62%) Lead Architect
17 34 (3.93%) Information Manager
18 33 (3.81%) Information Security Manager
19 30 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (1.62%) SAML
2 14 (1.62%) Web Services
3 12 (1.39%) OAuth
4 11 (1.27%) REST
5 9 (1.04%) SOAP
6 4 (0.46%) Kafka
6 4 (0.46%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.35%) AWS SAM
7 3 (0.35%) Sass
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.23%) OpenID
9 1 (0.12%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.12%) CSS
9 1 (0.12%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.12%) NestJS
9 1 (0.12%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 166 (19.17%) Management Information System
2 90 (10.39%) Security Posture
3 87 (10.05%) Security Operations Centre
4 64 (7.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 63 (7.27%) Cyber Threat
6 58 (6.70%) Cyber Defence
7 52 (6.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 39 (4.50%) Operational Technology
9 29 (3.35%) Cyberattack
10 25 (2.89%) Onboarding
10 25 (2.89%) Public Cloud
11 23 (2.66%) Data Centre
12 22 (2.54%) Product Ownership
13 20 (2.31%) Cloud Native
13 20 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.96%) CESG
15 14 (1.62%) Cyber Security Posture
15 14 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.39%) PropTech
16 12 (1.39%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 73 (8.43%) Windows
2 43 (4.97%) Linux
3 27 (3.12%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.96%) Unix
5 13 (1.50%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.27%) Android
6 11 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.92%) Kali Linux
8 7 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.58%) CentOS
11 4 (0.46%) Solaris
11 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.46%) Windows XP
11 4 (0.46%) zOS
12 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.23%) AIX
13 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.12%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (69.05%) Cybersecurity
2 471 (54.39%) Information Security
3 230 (26.56%) Risk Management
4 201 (23.21%) SIEM
5 177 (20.44%) Security Architecture
6 169 (19.52%) Security Operations
7 164 (18.94%) Incident Response
8 160 (18.48%) Cloud Security
9 155 (17.90%) Vulnerability Management
10 119 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
11 117 (13.51%) Security Management
12 92 (10.62%) OWASP
13 90 (10.39%) Application Security
14 83 (9.58%) Incident Management
15 82 (9.47%) Agile
16 78 (9.01%) Computer Science
17 76 (8.78%) Identity Access Management
17 76 (8.78%) Information Security Management
18 72 (8.31%) Mentoring
19 71 (8.20%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 56 (6.47%) Python
2 29 (3.35%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.85%) SQL
4 7 (0.81%) Bash
4 7 (0.81%) Java
5 6 (0.69%) C
5 6 (0.69%) R
5 6 (0.69%) Scala
6 5 (0.58%) C++
7 2 (0.23%) Go
8 1 (0.12%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 312 (36.03%) CISSP
2 224 (25.87%) CISM
3 143 (16.51%) Degree
4 138 (15.94%) Security Cleared
5 104 (12.01%) CISA
6 91 (10.51%) Cisco Certification
7 87 (10.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 80 (9.24%) AWS Certification
8 80 (9.24%) CCSP
9 65 (7.51%) DV Cleared
10 56 (6.47%) Azure Certification
10 56 (6.47%) CCSK
10 56 (6.47%) CRISC
11 48 (5.54%) SC Cleared
12 36 (4.16%) CEH
13 32 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
14 30 (3.46%) SANS
15 29 (3.35%) PCI QSA
16 27 (3.12%) CompTIA Security+
17 26 (3.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 416 (48.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 175 (20.21%) GRC
3 130 (15.01%) PCI DSS
4 127 (14.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 127 (14.67%) GDPR
5 88 (10.16%) NIST 800
6 75 (8.66%) NCSC
7 70 (8.08%) Def Stans
8 55 (6.35%) COBIT
9 37 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 34 (3.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 29 (3.35%) JSP 440
12 25 (2.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 23 (2.66%) RMADS
14 18 (2.08%) SOC 2
15 15 (1.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 14 (1.62%) ISO 31000
17 12 (1.39%) HIPAA
18 8 (0.92%) ISO 22301
18 8 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 46 (5.31%) Docker
2 32 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 30 (3.46%) vSphere
4 11 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.35%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) Snort
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
2 47 (5.43%) Kubernetes
3 29 (3.35%) Terraform
4 16 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (1.50%) CASB
5 13 (1.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 11 (1.27%) Nmap
7 10 (1.15%) Nessus
8 6 (0.69%) Ansible
9 5 (0.58%) Suricata
10 4 (0.46%) QRadar
11 3 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.35%) SELinux
12 2 (0.23%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.23%) Packer
12 2 (0.23%) SCCM
13 1 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 1 (0.12%) SCOM
13 1 (0.12%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 151 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.16%) Splunk
3 33 (3.81%) Tripwire
4 30 (3.46%) Tanium
5 29 (3.35%) Qualys
5 29 (3.35%) SolarWinds
6 27 (3.12%) Cisco
7 16 (1.85%) Fortinet
8 14 (1.62%) Rapid7
9 12 (1.39%) Google
9 12 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.39%) VMware
10 11 (1.27%) Thycotic
11 9 (1.04%) Palo Alto
12 8 (0.92%) CA
13 7 (0.81%) Juniper
14 6 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
14 6 (0.69%) Oracle
14 6 (0.69%) Zscaler
15 5 (0.58%) IBM