NIST Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 83 72 155
Rank change year-on-year -11 +83 -33
Contract jobs citing NIST 28 57 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.37% 2.58% 0.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.36% 15.79% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 49 17
10th Percentile £406 £413 £413
25th Percentile £506 £510 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -17.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £575 £680 £800
90th Percentile £708 £738 £805
England median daily rate £625 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £68.42 £72.42
% change year-on-year -1.34% -5.53% +42.28%

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 contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 299 361 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.64% 16.31% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 231 370
10th Percentile £255 £270 £270
25th Percentile £338 £363 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year - +4.71% +15.76%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £575
90th Percentile £798 £680 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 6
10th Percentile £11.83 £11.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £13.20 £13.40 £12.54
Median hourly rate £14.60 £27.32 £14.83
Median % change year-on-year -46.55% +84.19% -4.32%
75th Percentile £49.73 £28.75 £19.38
90th Percentile £58.75 £30.00 £20.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in the West Midlands

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +14 12 £438 -12.50% 7
Herefordshire -11 7 £538 -17.23%
Worcestershire +5 5 £550 -15.38%
Warwickshire -23 2 £588 -13.60%
Staffordshire +5 1 - - 3
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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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (39.29%) Firewall
2 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
3 5 (17.86%) DHCP
3 5 (17.86%) DNS
4 1 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.57%) tcpdump
4 1 (3.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
1 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 10 (35.71%) Legal
2 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Electronics
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Law
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Analyst
2 10 (35.71%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (25.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Security Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Incident Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Junior
6 1 (3.57%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Programme Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Security Incident Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Kafka
1 1 (3.57%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 8 (28.57%) Cyber Defence
3 6 (21.43%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (21.43%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.57%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Linux
2 10 (35.71%) Mac OS X
3 8 (28.57%) Windows
4 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (17.86%) Unix
4 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (92.86%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (85.71%) SIEM
3 16 (57.14%) Incident Management
4 15 (53.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 12 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
6 11 (39.29%) Malware Reverse Engineering
6 11 (39.29%) Reverse Engineering
6 11 (39.29%) Risk Management
7 10 (35.71%) Computer Forensics
7 10 (35.71%) Incident Response
7 10 (35.71%) Purple Team
7 10 (35.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (35.71%) Threat Analysis
8 7 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (25.00%) Use Case
9 6 (21.43%) CRM
9 6 (21.43%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 6 (21.43%) Information Security
9 6 (21.43%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) C#
1 5 (17.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (32.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) CISSP
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (46.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (39.29%) GDPR
3 10 (35.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (35.71%) HIPAA
4 7 (25.00%) NIST 800
5 1 (3.57%) GRC
5 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (17.86%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.57%) Snort
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) SCCM
1 5 (17.86%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Veeam
2 5 (17.86%) VMware
3 2 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) F5
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Qualys
4 1 (3.57%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow