NIST Contracts in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 95 181
Rank change year-on-year -7 +86 -36
Contract jobs citing NIST 37 61 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.27% 1.89% 0.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.37% 12.66% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 51 21
10th Percentile £406 £413 £413
25th Percentile £503 £511 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £622 £680 £763
90th Percentile £785 £725 £800
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
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 395 482 708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.54% 14.96% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 305 512
10th Percentile £240 £263 £213
25th Percentile £313 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £557
90th Percentile £755 £678 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 22 14
10th Percentile £11.57 £12.50 £12.55
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.69 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.70 £27.50 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year -46.55% +58.94% +27.67%
75th Percentile £34.20 £31.32 £20.56
90th Percentile £58.75 £64.00 £25.63
England median hourly rate £23.80 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -44.00% +54.55% +32.21%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for NIST in the Midlands

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
West Midlands -11 29 £544 -5.39% 16
East Midlands +13 6 £723 +17.96% 7
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (2.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.11%) Azure
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.70%) AWS
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (35.14%) Firewall
2 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
3 5 (13.51%) DHCP
3 5 (13.51%) DNS
4 2 (5.41%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (5.41%) Network Security
5 1 (2.70%) tcpdump
5 1 (2.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Legal
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.41%) Automotive
5 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Electronics
6 1 (2.70%) Law
6 1 (2.70%) Local Government
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (54.05%) Analyst
2 10 (27.03%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (18.92%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Security Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Information Security Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Risk Officer
6 2 (5.41%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Security Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Security Officer
7 1 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Head of Security
7 1 (2.70%) Junior Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) Kafka
1 1 (2.70%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 9 (24.32%) Management Information System
2 8 (21.62%) Cyber Defence
3 6 (16.22%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (13.51%) Operational Technology
5 2 (5.41%) IoT
6 1 (2.70%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.70%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 17 (45.95%) Linux
2 10 (27.03%) Mac OS X
3 8 (21.62%) Windows
4 5 (13.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (13.51%) Unix
4 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (89.19%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (67.57%) SIEM
3 16 (43.24%) Incident Management
4 15 (40.54%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 15 (40.54%) Vulnerability Management
5 14 (37.84%) Information Security
6 13 (35.14%) Risk Management
7 11 (29.73%) Malware Reverse Engineering
7 11 (29.73%) Reverse Engineering
8 10 (27.03%) Computer Forensics
8 10 (27.03%) Incident Response
8 10 (27.03%) Purple Team
8 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (27.03%) Threat Analysis
9 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (18.92%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (18.92%) Use Case
11 6 (16.22%) CRM
11 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
11 6 (16.22%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) C#
1 5 (13.51%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (54.05%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (24.32%) DV Cleared
4 6 (16.22%) CISSP
5 5 (13.51%) Degree
6 3 (8.11%) CISM
6 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.70%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (45.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (29.73%) GDPR
3 10 (27.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (27.03%) HIPAA
4 8 (21.62%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.70%) GRC
5 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (13.51%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.70%) Snort
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) SCCM
1 5 (13.51%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Veeam
2 5 (13.51%) VMware
3 2 (5.41%) Splunk
4 1 (2.70%) Cadence
4 1 (2.70%) F5
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Qualys
4 1 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow