NIST Jobs in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 264 418
Rank change year-on-year +58 +154 +42
Permanent jobs citing NIST 910 612 953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.37% 1.21% 0.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.98% 8.32% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 394 500 764
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,188
25th Percentile £54,793 £55,000 £54,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £66,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10,129 7,358 20,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.20% 14.49% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,156 5,490 11,369
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,420 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +5.26% +3.64%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in England

NIST
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for NIST in England

NIST
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in England over the 6 months to 29 October 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in England

NIST
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the England region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
London +50 407 £76,500 +2.00% 75
North of England +60 152 £54,793 -10.18% 35
South East +29 124 £68,250 +11.43% 18
South West +63 112 £85,000 +31.35% 10
North West +33 95 £54,793 -0.38% 19
Midlands -10 90 £65,000 +15.04% 17
West Midlands -3 71 £65,000 +5.69% 11
Yorkshire +39 50 £52,500 -16.00% 9
East of England -62 18 £75,000 +7.14% 6
East Midlands -33 17 £57,500 +1.77% 6
North East - 7 £72,500 - 7
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 35 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.77%) Confluence
4 4 (0.44%) SAS
5 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.11%) CMS
5 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 231 (25.38%) Azure
2 178 (19.56%) AWS
3 135 (14.84%) GCP
4 113 (12.42%) Cloud Computing
5 63 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (4.62%) Entra ID
7 26 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 26 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (1.87%) SaaS
10 15 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (1.65%) Serverless
10 15 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (1.54%) Amazon S3
11 14 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (1.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 12 (1.32%) AWS CloudTrail
13 10 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 232 (25.49%) Broadband
2 219 (24.07%) Network Security
3 108 (11.87%) Firewall
4 33 (3.63%) Intrusion Detection
5 29 (3.19%) VPN
6 24 (2.64%) TCP/IP
7 20 (2.20%) DNS
8 19 (2.09%) Internet
9 18 (1.98%) VLAN
10 16 (1.76%) DHCP
11 15 (1.65%) WAN
12 13 (1.43%) Wireless
13 12 (1.32%) LAN
14 11 (1.21%) BGP
14 11 (1.21%) Wireshark
15 7 (0.77%) SAN
16 6 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 6 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 6 (0.66%) OSPF
16 6 (0.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (1.43%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.66%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.44%) Power BI
6 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.11%) MySQL
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (0.99%) GitLab
2 8 (0.88%) JIRA
3 7 (0.77%) Snyk
4 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.22%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.22%) LabVIEW
4 2 (0.22%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.22%) sqlmap
General
1 320 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 208 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 146 (16.04%) Finance
4 42 (4.62%) Legal
5 23 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (2.20%) Retail
7 19 (2.09%) Public Sector
8 16 (1.76%) Military
8 16 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.54%) Law
10 13 (1.43%) Back Office
10 13 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.32%) Banking
11 12 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.77%) Advertising
14 6 (0.66%) Avionics
14 6 (0.66%) French Language
14 6 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 286 (31.43%) Analyst
2 247 (27.14%) Security Analyst
3 170 (18.68%) Lead
4 149 (16.37%) Senior
5 125 (13.74%) Team Leader
6 110 (12.09%) Cloud Security Analyst
7 101 (11.10%) Architect
8 97 (10.66%) Consultant
8 97 (10.66%) Security Engineer
9 94 (10.33%) Senior Analyst
10 82 (9.01%) Senior Security Analyst
11 81 (8.90%) Security Consultant
12 74 (8.13%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 70 (7.69%) Security Architect
14 48 (5.27%) Information Analyst
14 48 (5.27%) Information Security Analyst
15 42 (4.62%) Security Manager
16 33 (3.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 29 (3.19%) Cybersecurity Engineer
18 26 (2.86%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (17.03%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (1.65%) SailPoint
3 5 (0.55%) AWS CDK
4 3 (0.33%) AWS SAM
4 3 (0.33%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (0.33%) SAML
4 3 (0.33%) Web Services
5 2 (0.22%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.11%) LDAP
6 1 (0.11%) OAuth
6 1 (0.11%) React
6 1 (0.11%) Sass
6 1 (0.11%) Spring
6 1 (0.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 162 (17.80%) Cyber Threat
2 137 (15.05%) Private Cloud
3 130 (14.29%) Cloud Native
4 120 (13.19%) Cyberattack
5 114 (12.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 111 (12.20%) Management Information System
7 109 (11.98%) Social Media
8 64 (7.03%) Security Posture
9 37 (4.07%) Security Operations Centre
10 27 (2.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 24 (2.64%) Operational Technology
12 17 (1.87%) Cyber Defence
12 17 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.87%) Public Cloud
13 16 (1.76%) Data Centre
14 15 (1.65%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.21%) PKI
15 11 (1.21%) Taxonomies
16 10 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 10 (1.10%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 170 (18.68%) Linux
2 70 (7.69%) Windows
3 25 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.43%) Unix
5 6 (0.66%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.44%) Windows XP
8 2 (0.22%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (61.10%) Cybersecurity
2 348 (38.24%) Information Security
3 260 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 232 (25.49%) Cloud Security
5 230 (25.27%) DevOps
6 227 (24.95%) Problem-Solving
7 211 (23.19%) Risk Management
8 187 (20.55%) Computer Science
9 177 (19.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 171 (18.79%) Roadmaps
11 155 (17.03%) Mentoring
12 154 (16.92%) Identity Access Management
13 150 (16.48%) CI/CD
14 146 (16.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 145 (15.93%) Disaster Recovery
16 131 (14.40%) SIEM
17 130 (14.29%) Validation
18 127 (13.96%) Continuous Integration
19 126 (13.85%) Configuration Management
19 126 (13.85%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 164 (18.02%) Python
2 128 (14.07%) Bash
3 123 (13.52%) Shell Script
4 29 (3.19%) PowerShell
5 11 (1.21%) Go
6 7 (0.77%) Java
7 6 (0.66%) C#
8 5 (0.55%) C++
8 5 (0.55%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.44%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.44%) SQL
10 1 (0.11%) C
10 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.11%) R
10 1 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 325 (35.71%) Degree
2 265 (29.12%) CISSP
3 223 (24.51%) CISM
4 158 (17.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 137 (15.05%) Master's Degree
6 123 (13.52%) LPIC
6 123 (13.52%) RHCSA
7 118 (12.97%) Security Cleared
8 74 (8.13%) CISA
9 60 (6.59%) DV Cleared
10 57 (6.26%) SC Cleared
11 55 (6.04%) CompTIA Security+
12 52 (5.71%) CRISC
13 37 (4.07%) CEH
13 37 (4.07%) CESG Certified Professional
14 33 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
15 32 (3.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 24 (2.64%) AWS Certification
16 24 (2.64%) GIAC
17 23 (2.53%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 496 (54.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 229 (25.16%) GDPR
3 158 (17.36%) SOC 2
4 117 (12.86%) HIPAA
5 109 (11.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 92 (10.11%) GRC
7 81 (8.90%) NIST 800
8 58 (6.37%) PCI DSS
9 46 (5.05%) COBIT
10 37 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 37 (4.07%) NCSC
11 34 (3.74%) JSP 440
11 34 (3.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 31 (3.41%) RMADS
13 29 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 15 (1.65%) Def Stans
15 11 (1.21%) IASME
16 10 (1.10%) COSO
17 9 (0.99%) ITGC
18 4 (0.44%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 206 (22.64%) Docker
2 27 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.09%) vSphere
4 9 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.22%) Firmware
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.11%) NFS
7 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 130 (14.29%) Ansible
2 123 (13.52%) Grafana
2 123 (13.52%) Prometheus
3 90 (9.89%) Kubernetes
4 37 (4.07%) Terraform
5 11 (1.21%) Nessus
6 9 (0.99%) CASB
7 7 (0.77%) CSIRT
8 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.66%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.55%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.44%) SCCM
10 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 3 (0.33%) Kibana
11 3 (0.33%) logstash
12 2 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.22%) Puppet
12 2 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 138 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.09%) SolarWinds
2 19 (2.09%) Tanium
3 18 (1.98%) Tripwire
4 17 (1.87%) Cisco
5 16 (1.76%) VMware
6 13 (1.43%) CyberArk
7 11 (1.21%) Splunk
8 10 (1.10%) Palo Alto
9 8 (0.88%) Fortinet
9 8 (0.88%) Google
9 8 (0.88%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.88%) Zscaler
10 7 (0.77%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.77%) Darktrace
10 7 (0.77%) Rapid7
11 6 (0.66%) Oracle
11 6 (0.66%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.55%) Proofpoint
12 5 (0.55%) SYSPRO