NIST Jobs in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for NIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NIST over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 157 204
Rank change year-on-year -36 +47 -44
Permanent jobs citing NIST 60 116 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.80% 1.86% 1.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.19% 6.47% 6.11%
Number of salaries quoted 57 96 39
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,875 £42,324
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% +1.20% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,900 £85,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,250 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.93% +3.70% +3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

NIST is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,155 1,794 1,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.42% 28.76% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 868 693 873
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,100 £27,664
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £51,201 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% +7.79% +1.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £78,003
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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

NIST
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for NIST in the West Midlands

NIST
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing NIST in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for NIST in the West Midlands

NIST
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Birmingham -15 25 £72,500 +3.57% 6
Staffordshire -15 16 £50,500 -22.31% 3
Warwickshire +21 5 £63,998 +16.36% 2
Solihull -1 5 £72,500 +28.89% 8
Worcestershire -16 1 £105,000 +78.72%
NIST
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 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.67%) AWS
2 10 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 10 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 10 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 10 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
2 10 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (16.67%) Serverless
2 10 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 8 (13.33%) Azure
4 4 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Control Tower
5 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.00%) Firewall
2 8 (13.33%) VPN
2 8 (13.33%) WAN
3 4 (6.67%) LAN
4 3 (5.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.33%) Wireless
6 1 (1.67%) Network Security
6 1 (1.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Burp Suite
1 3 (5.00%) Metasploit
1 3 (5.00%) sqlmap
2 2 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 17 (28.33%) Finance
2 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.67%) Retail
4 5 (8.33%) Automotive
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Fire and Rescue
5 2 (3.33%) Local Government
6 1 (1.67%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Law
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Security Engineer
2 11 (18.33%) Analyst
3 9 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Security Analyst
4 8 (13.33%) Operations Analyst
4 8 (13.33%) Security Manager
4 8 (13.33%) Security Operations Analyst
5 7 (11.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Lead
7 5 (8.33%) Python Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Consultant
8 4 (6.67%) Head of Security
8 4 (6.67%) Information Manager
8 4 (6.67%) Information Security Manager
8 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Security Consultant
9 3 (5.00%) Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Lead Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Operational Technology
2 9 (15.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 7 (11.67%) Management Information System
3 7 (11.67%) PropTech
3 7 (11.67%) SCADA
4 5 (8.33%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.67%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.00%) Windows
2 8 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Unix
3 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 35 (58.33%) Information Security
3 23 (38.33%) Risk Management
4 17 (28.33%) Incident Response
5 13 (21.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (21.67%) Security Operations
6 12 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
7 10 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
8 9 (15.00%) Risk Assessment
9 8 (13.33%) Data Security
9 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (11.67%) DevSecOps
10 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (10.00%) Cloud Security
11 6 (10.00%) Computer Science
11 6 (10.00%) Security Architecture
12 5 (8.33%) Business Development
12 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (8.33%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (36.67%) CISM
1 22 (36.67%) CISSP
2 13 (21.67%) AWS Certification
2 13 (21.67%) Degree
3 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 9 (15.00%) CISA
5 5 (8.33%) PCI QSA
5 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (5.00%) CCSK
7 3 (5.00%) CCSP
7 3 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (5.00%) CRISC
7 3 (5.00%) SSCP
8 1 (1.67%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (18.33%) GDPR
3 9 (15.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (13.33%) PCI DSS
5 6 (10.00%) NIST 800
6 5 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (6.67%) GRC
7 4 (6.67%) NCSC
8 2 (3.33%) ISO 22301
8 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (1.67%) ISO 31000
9 1 (1.67%) ISO 9001
9 1 (1.67%) JSP 440
9 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.33%) Fortinet
2 2 (3.33%) Google
2 2 (3.33%) Rapid7
3 1 (1.67%) Facebook