NIST Contracts in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 145 166
Rank change year-on-year +42 +21 -5
Contract jobs citing NIST 12 19 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.56% 0.71% 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.09% 3.55% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 6
10th Percentile £324 £541 £511
25th Percentile £503 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £634
90th Percentile £788 £745 £664
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 388 535 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.11% 20.02% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 430 510
10th Percentile £182 £181 £225
25th Percentile £313 £395 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £523 £538 £545
90th Percentile £600 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 20
10th Percentile - £13.56 £12.28
25th Percentile £13.52 £14.17 £16.09
Median hourly rate £14.98 £18.13 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -17.35% -39.00% +32.07%
75th Percentile £19.79 £28.90 £44.63
90th Percentile £60.75 £40.20 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in Scotland

NIST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for NIST in Scotland

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in Scotland

NIST
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Glasgow +8 7 £537 -12.37% 3
Edinburgh +31 2 £775 +11.15% 2
South Lanarkshire - 2 - -
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Information Officer
2 2 (16.67%) Information Security Officer
2 2 (16.67%) Security Advisor
2 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Security Officer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Information Security Officer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Information Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (25.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (58.33%) Information Security
3 6 (50.00%) Information Security Management
3 6 (50.00%) ISMS
3 6 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (50.00%) Security Management
4 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 4 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 4 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Data Security
6 2 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
6 2 (16.67%) Key Management
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) SIEM
6 2 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) CISSP
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) CGEIT
2 4 (33.33%) CISA
2 4 (33.33%) CISM
2 4 (33.33%) CRISC
2 4 (33.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (25.00%) GDPR
2 3 (25.00%) NIST 800
3 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) F5
1 2 (16.67%) Qualys
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft