NIST Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 101 156
Rank change year-on-year +6 +55 -36
Contract jobs citing NIST 46 52 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.66% 1.71% 0.69%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.60% 11.38% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 26 27
10th Percentile £544 £406 £580
25th Percentile £560 £408 £639
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £541 £725
Median % change year-on-year +20.09% -25.34% +26.09%
75th Percentile £675 £633 £763
90th Percentile £756 £675 -
England median daily rate £625 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.48 - -
Median hourly rate £35.95 £39.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% - -
75th Percentile £38.43 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £72.42
% change year-on-year +5.23% -11.43% +31.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 434 457 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.65% 15.05% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 281 427
10th Percentile £325 £300 £207
25th Percentile £415 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £465
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +4.30% +8.64%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 36 33
10th Percentile - £19.38 £10.21
25th Percentile £10.95 £29.83 £12.02
Median hourly rate £11.89 £37.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.31% -34.78% +202.63%
75th Percentile £25.11 £47.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £73.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £24.00 £40.32 £27.00
% change year-on-year -40.48% +49.33% +28.57%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in the North West.

Daily rate trend for NIST in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in the North West over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NIST in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for NIST in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Cheshire +11 19 £570 +3.64% 3
Manchester +6 12 £663 +9.28% 4
Cumbria -11 12 £669 +25.63% 1
Lancashire +5 2 £975 +153.25% 1
Merseyside +8 1 £650 +57.58%
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) SaaS
4 3 (6.52%) GCP
4 3 (6.52%) GitHub
5 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.35%) IaaS
5 2 (4.35%) PaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (30.43%) Network Security
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) Firewall
3 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.17%) PPP
3 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.17%) Big Data
1 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (30.43%) Finance
2 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Architect
2 14 (30.43%) Security Architect
3 12 (26.09%) Consultant
4 9 (19.57%) Analyst
5 8 (17.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 8 (17.39%) Test Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Integration Consultant
6 4 (8.70%) SaaS Consultant
6 4 (8.70%) Security Consultant
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Security Architect
7 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Lead
7 3 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Compliance Consultant
9 1 (2.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 1 (2.17%) Principal Security Consultant
9 1 (2.17%) Security Manager
9 1 (2.17%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) SAML
2 1 (2.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Security Posture
2 9 (19.57%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (15.22%) Public Cloud
4 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
5 4 (8.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (6.52%) Cyberattack
7 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
7 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
7 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (43.48%) Information Security
3 19 (41.30%) Risk Management
4 18 (39.13%) Business Strategy
4 18 (39.13%) IT Strategy
5 14 (30.43%) Cryptography
5 14 (30.43%) Roadmaps
6 13 (28.26%) Penetration Testing
7 12 (26.09%) Security Architecture
8 11 (23.91%) Project Delivery
8 11 (23.91%) Strategic Roadmap
9 10 (21.74%) Service Delivery
9 10 (21.74%) SIEM
9 10 (21.74%) Technology Strategy
10 9 (19.57%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (17.39%) Business Continuity
11 8 (17.39%) Cyber Resilience
11 8 (17.39%) Data Protection
11 8 (17.39%) Use Case
11 8 (17.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
1 4 (8.70%) Python
2 2 (4.35%) Go
3 1 (2.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) CISSP
4 2 (4.35%) CISM
4 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) CRISC
5 1 (2.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (47.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (26.09%) PCI DSS
3 3 (6.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (6.52%) GRC
3 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (4.35%) GDPR
5 1 (2.17%) COBIT
5 1 (2.17%) COSO
5 1 (2.17%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.17%) ISO 31000
5 1 (2.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Terraform
2 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) Salesforce
2 6 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.35%) Databricks
3 2 (4.35%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco
4 1 (2.17%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.17%) F5
4 1 (2.17%) Qualys
4 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.17%) Sophos
4 1 (2.17%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) Teradata
4 1 (2.17%) VMware