NIST Jobs in the UK excluding London

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 334 349 359
Rank change year-on-year +15 +10 +75
Permanent jobs citing NIST 559 487 701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.88% 0.92%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.58% 4.56% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 448 345 387
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,250 £38,775
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,728 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £92,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £68,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +7.69%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10,011 10,686 13,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.50% 19.34% 17.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,413 4,412 6,986
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £79,975 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in the UK excluding London

NIST
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the UK excluding London 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +57 156 £57,500 -4.17% 19
South East -2 154 £50,500 -20.78% 19
South West +8 109 £91,500 +30.71% 28
North West +9 95 £60,000 +20.00% 13
Midlands -74 80 £70,000 +21.74% 21
West Midlands -49 69 £72,500 +17.89% 15
Scotland -58 38 £61,250 +11.36% 10
Yorkshire +58 35 £50,000 -28.57% 6
North East +7 26 £42,500 -14.36%
East of England -17 17 £72,500 +3.57% 4
East Midlands -33 8 £47,500 -15.93% 6
Isle of Man -15 4 £46,500 -17.33%
Wales +9 1 £85,000 +54.55% 1
NIST
UK

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (2.15%) IIS
2 3 (0.54%) Confluence
2 3 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 132 (23.61%) Azure
2 115 (20.57%) AWS
3 59 (10.55%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (3.58%) Serverless
5 18 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (3.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 17 (3.04%) AWS CloudTrail
7 16 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 16 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (2.86%) Entra ID
7 16 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (2.33%) GCP
9 13 (2.33%) SaaS
10 9 (1.61%) IaaS
10 9 (1.61%) PaaS
11 7 (1.25%) AWS Control Tower
11 7 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 106 (18.96%) Network Security
2 76 (13.60%) Firewall
3 41 (7.33%) WAN
4 30 (5.37%) SD-WAN
5 24 (4.29%) VPN
6 20 (3.58%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (1.61%) Internet
7 9 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.43%) Wireshark
9 7 (1.25%) LAN
10 6 (1.07%) DMZ
11 4 (0.72%) DNS
11 4 (0.72%) tcpdump
12 3 (0.54%) HTTP
12 3 (0.54%) Modbus
12 3 (0.54%) PPP
12 3 (0.54%) VLAN
13 2 (0.36%) SAN
13 2 (0.36%) SMTP
13 2 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.72%) Power BI
3 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (2.50%) GitLab
2 13 (2.33%) JIRA
3 4 (0.72%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.72%) Metasploit
3 4 (0.72%) sqlmap
4 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.18%) Git
5 1 (0.18%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
General
1 118 (21.11%) Finance
2 109 (19.50%) Social Skills
3 72 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.69%) Retail
5 31 (5.55%) Legal
5 31 (5.55%) Military
6 28 (5.01%) Law
7 23 (4.11%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (3.40%) Aerospace
9 19 (3.40%) Marketing
10 10 (1.79%) Aviation
10 10 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.43%) Automotive
12 7 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.72%) Banking
14 3 (0.54%) Advertising
15 2 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (17.53%) Consultant
2 97 (17.35%) Analyst
2 97 (17.35%) Security Consultant
3 91 (16.28%) Security Specialist
4 86 (15.38%) Lead
5 75 (13.42%) Architect
6 74 (13.24%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 67 (11.99%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 65 (11.63%) Security Analyst
8 65 (11.63%) Senior
9 59 (10.55%) Security Architect
10 53 (9.48%) Security Engineer
11 46 (8.23%) Security Manager
12 36 (6.44%) Lead Architect
13 31 (5.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 23 (4.11%) Information Manager
14 23 (4.11%) Information Security Manager
14 23 (4.11%) Lead Security Architect
14 23 (4.11%) Senior Architect
15 19 (3.40%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (1.79%) SAML
3 8 (1.43%) OAuth
3 8 (1.43%) Web Services
4 3 (0.54%) REST
4 3 (0.54%) SOAP
5 2 (0.36%) OpenID
5 2 (0.36%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.18%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.18%) CSS
6 1 (0.18%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.18%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 123 (22.00%) Management Information System
2 60 (10.73%) Security Operations Centre
3 42 (7.51%) Security Posture
4 38 (6.80%) Cyber Threat
5 36 (6.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 34 (6.08%) Cyber Defence
7 30 (5.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 25 (4.47%) Operational Technology
9 21 (3.76%) Data Centre
10 18 (3.22%) Cyberattack
11 17 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (3.04%) Product Ownership
11 17 (3.04%) Public Cloud
12 16 (2.86%) CESG
13 14 (2.50%) Onboarding
14 12 (2.15%) Private Cloud
14 12 (2.15%) PropTech
14 12 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.97%) SCADA
16 7 (1.25%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.69%) Windows
2 21 (3.76%) Linux
3 17 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.97%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.43%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.72%) Android
6 4 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.36%) Unix
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (73.52%) Cybersecurity
2 281 (50.27%) Information Security
3 149 (26.65%) Risk Management
4 116 (20.75%) SIEM
5 110 (19.68%) Security Architecture
6 108 (19.32%) Security Operations
7 101 (18.07%) Incident Response
8 95 (16.99%) Vulnerability Management
9 88 (15.74%) Cloud Security
10 67 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
11 66 (11.81%) Security Management
12 64 (11.45%) OWASP
13 61 (10.91%) Application Security
14 60 (10.73%) Mentoring
15 56 (10.02%) Coaching
16 47 (8.41%) Computer Science
17 45 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
18 44 (7.87%) Agile
18 44 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 44 (7.87%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 39 (6.98%) Python
2 19 (3.40%) PowerShell
3 9 (1.61%) SQL
4 7 (1.25%) Java
5 6 (1.07%) C
5 6 (1.07%) R
5 6 (1.07%) Scala
6 3 (0.54%) Bash
6 3 (0.54%) Go
7 2 (0.36%) C++
7 2 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 183 (32.74%) CISSP
2 134 (23.97%) CISM
3 102 (18.25%) Security Cleared
4 99 (17.71%) Degree
5 61 (10.91%) AWS Certification
6 52 (9.30%) CISA
7 50 (8.94%) Cisco Certification
7 50 (8.94%) DV Cleared
8 48 (8.59%) CCSP
9 47 (8.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 43 (7.69%) CCSK
11 38 (6.80%) Azure Certification
12 32 (5.72%) CRISC
13 31 (5.55%) SC Cleared
14 20 (3.58%) CEH
15 19 (3.40%) CompTIA Security+
16 17 (3.04%) CISMP
17 15 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
18 14 (2.50%) PCI QSA
18 14 (2.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (46.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 109 (19.50%) GRC
3 89 (15.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 89 (15.92%) GDPR
4 85 (15.21%) PCI DSS
5 73 (13.06%) NIST 800
6 70 (12.52%) Def Stans
7 45 (8.05%) NCSC
8 29 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 27 (4.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 24 (4.29%) JSP 440
11 23 (4.11%) COBIT
12 20 (3.58%) RMADS
13 17 (3.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (2.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (1.61%) ISO 31000
16 8 (1.43%) SOC 2
17 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 6 (1.07%) COSO
18 6 (1.07%) HIPAA
System Software
1 32 (5.72%) Docker
2 18 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.86%) vSphere
4 4 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.54%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) Snort
Systems Management
1 41 (7.33%) Single Sign-On
2 38 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.22%) Terraform
4 9 (1.61%) CASB
4 9 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.43%) Nessus
6 6 (1.07%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 5 (0.89%) Suricata
8 4 (0.72%) Nmap
9 3 (0.54%) Ansible
9 3 (0.54%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.54%) SELinux
10 2 (0.36%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.18%) Kibana
11 1 (0.18%) logstash
Vendors
1 90 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.58%) Splunk
3 17 (3.04%) SolarWinds
3 17 (3.04%) Tanium
3 17 (3.04%) Tripwire
4 12 (2.15%) Cisco
4 12 (2.15%) Qualys
5 9 (1.61%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.07%) Rapid7
7 5 (0.89%) Intel
7 5 (0.89%) Juniper
7 5 (0.89%) Palo Alto
8 4 (0.72%) Citrix
8 4 (0.72%) Dell
8 4 (0.72%) Thycotic
8 4 (0.72%) VMware
9 3 (0.54%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.54%) Darktrace
9 3 (0.54%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.54%) Oracle