NIST 800 Contracts with Work from Home Options

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for NIST 800 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NIST 800 over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 421 582
Rank change year-on-year +91 +161 -118
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 11 47 33
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.073% 0.19% 0.075%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.51% 1.53% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 32 23
10th Percentile £525 £563 £535
25th Percentile £544 £600 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £680 £760
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% -10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £750 £779
90th Percentile £624 - £867
UK median daily rate £566 £650 £750
% change year-on-year -12.92% -13.33% +11.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

NIST 800 is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,178 3,067 5,831
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.45% 12.22% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,506 2,244 4,151
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £419 £420 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +4.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 64 118
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.56 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £39.80 £42.73
Median % change year-on-year -40.95% -6.85% +112.19%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.94 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.28 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +26.13% +31.99%

NIST 800
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing NIST 800 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NIST 800 trend for jobs with a WFH option

NIST 800
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing NIST 800.

NIST 800 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NIST 800
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing NIST 800 over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

NIST 800 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NIST 800
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (45.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Consultant
1 4 (36.36%) Risk Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) IT Risk Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Risk Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Management Information System
2 3 (27.27%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (27.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (27.27%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Information Security
2 8 (72.73%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 6 (54.55%) Risk Management
4 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
4 5 (45.45%) Data Privacy
4 5 (45.45%) EBIOS
4 5 (45.45%) Impact Assessments
4 5 (45.45%) Information Security Management
4 5 (45.45%) Security Management
5 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (27.27%) CRM
6 3 (27.27%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
6 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
6 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
6 3 (27.27%) Protective Monitoring
6 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (27.27%) SIEM
6 3 (27.27%) SOAR
6 3 (27.27%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) CISSP
2 6 (54.55%) CISM
3 5 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (45.45%) Degree
3 5 (45.45%) Master's Degree
4 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
4 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (9.09%) CCSK
5 1 (9.09%) CCSP
5 1 (9.09%) CEH
5 1 (9.09%) CISA
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (9.09%) CRISC
5 1 (9.09%) FFIEC
5 1 (9.09%) GIAC
5 1 (9.09%) SANS
5 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (90.91%) NIST
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow