NIST Jobs in the West Midlands

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 141 226
Rank change year-on-year -21 +85 -9
Permanent jobs citing NIST 54 56 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.89% 1.45% 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.13% 9.51% 4.97%
Number of salaries quoted 43 53 56
10th Percentile £52,750 £38,750 £42,163
25th Percentile £54,125 £48,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £61,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -5.38% +21.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,125
90th Percentile £98,250 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +3.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

NIST falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 881 589 1,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.56% 15.23% 19.00%
Number of salaries quoted 479 470 906
10th Percentile £28,119 £26,960 £29,256
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +8.89%
75th Percentile £64,054 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% +2.27%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the West Midlands

NIST
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for NIST in the West Midlands

NIST
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in the West Midlands

NIST
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Birmingham -15 24 £72,500 +31.82% 10
Solihull +9 10 £72,500 -
Staffordshire -19 7 £57,500 -9.80% 3
Warwickshire -21 6 £63,998 +16.36% 4
Coventry +4 1 - - 1
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 15 (27.78%) AWS
1 15 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
1 15 (27.78%) AWS CloudTrail
2 14 (25.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 14 (25.93%) Amazon EC2
2 14 (25.93%) Amazon S3
2 14 (25.93%) AWS Lambda
2 14 (25.93%) Serverless
2 14 (25.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (12.96%) AWS Control Tower
4 5 (9.26%) Azure
5 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.85%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Firewall
2 3 (5.56%) WAN
3 2 (3.70%) LAN
4 1 (1.85%) Internet
4 1 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.85%) Network Security
4 1 (1.85%) NGFW
4 1 (1.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.93%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.56%) Power BI
3 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Burp Suite
1 3 (5.56%) Metasploit
1 3 (5.56%) sqlmap
General
1 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Legal
3 7 (12.96%) Finance
4 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Law
4 3 (5.56%) Retail
5 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.85%) Marketing
6 1 (1.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (40.74%) Security Engineer
2 13 (24.07%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (22.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Analyst
5 8 (14.81%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) Security Analyst
6 6 (11.11%) Information Analyst
6 6 (11.11%) Information Security Analyst
7 5 (9.26%) Head of Security
7 5 (9.26%) Information Officer
7 5 (9.26%) Information Security Officer
7 5 (9.26%) Python Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Security Officer
8 4 (7.41%) Head of Information
8 4 (7.41%) Head of Information Security
9 3 (5.56%) Consultant
9 3 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 3 (5.56%) Security Assurance Coordinator
9 3 (5.56%) Security Manager
9 3 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.85%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Operational Technology
2 11 (20.37%) Management Information System
2 11 (20.37%) PropTech
3 8 (14.81%) SCADA
4 2 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.70%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (3.70%) IoT
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) PKI
5 1 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (42.59%) Information Security
2 21 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (38.89%) Incident Response
3 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (25.93%) Threat Modelling
5 12 (22.22%) DevSecOps
6 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 9 (16.67%) Security Management
7 9 (16.67%) SIEM
8 8 (14.81%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 7 (12.96%) Cloud Security
9 7 (12.96%) Computer Science
9 7 (12.96%) Incident Management
9 7 (12.96%) Information Security Management
9 7 (12.96%) ISMS
10 6 (11.11%) Business Development
10 6 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
10 6 (11.11%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.78%) Python
2 1 (1.85%) Bash
2 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (42.59%) CISSP
2 19 (35.19%) CISM
3 16 (29.63%) Degree
4 15 (27.78%) AWS Certification
5 13 (24.07%) CISA
5 13 (24.07%) Security Cleared
6 9 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (12.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared
8 6 (11.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 5 (9.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 4 (7.41%) SSCP
11 3 (5.56%) DV Cleared
12 2 (3.70%) CRISC
12 2 (3.70%) GIAC
12 2 (3.70%) SANS
13 1 (1.85%) CEH
13 1 (1.85%) CESG Certified Professional
13 1 (1.85%) ISACA
13 1 (1.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (90.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (25.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (18.52%) GDPR
4 8 (14.81%) NIST 800
5 6 (11.11%) PCI DSS
6 5 (9.26%) NCSC
7 4 (7.41%) JSP 440
8 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.85%) Def Stans
9 1 (1.85%) FedRAMP
9 1 (1.85%) GPG13
9 1 (1.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (1.85%) ISO 22301
9 1 (1.85%) ISO 31000
9 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.85%) RMADS
9 1 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (1.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Nessus
1 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) Rapid7
3 2 (3.70%) CyberArk
3 2 (3.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.85%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (1.85%) CA
4 1 (1.85%) Okta
4 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.85%) Thycotic