NIST 800 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring NIST 800 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST 800 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 334 432
Rank change year-on-year +47 +98 +168
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 17 11 45
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.072% 0.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.14% 0.49% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 30
10th Percentile £460 £525 £559
25th Percentile £525 £544 £602
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £680
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -19.12% -10.53%
75th Percentile £645 £594 £750
90th Percentile £855 £676 -
UK median daily rate £600 £582 £650
% change year-on-year +3.09% -10.46% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +52.38% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

NIST 800 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,488 2,240 3,140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.02% 14.60% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,532 2,292
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 79 63
10th Percentile £17.98 £12.75 £18.54
25th Percentile £23.13 £14.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £22.87 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.53% -46.81% -2.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £87.15 £65.00 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

NIST 800
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing NIST 800 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NIST 800 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

NIST 800
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing NIST 800 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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:

Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (11.76%) AWS KMS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) SSL
1 2 (11.76%) X.509
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.76%) Military
2 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Auditor
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) IT Auditor
3 2 (11.76%) Risk Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Security Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Auditor
3 2 (11.76%) Senior IT Auditor
4 1 (5.88%) Audit Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Compliance Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Information Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Security Advisor
4 1 (5.88%) Security Compliance Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Operational Technology
2 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) PKI
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) SCADA
4 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (29.41%) Security Architecture
2 5 (29.41%) Security Operations
3 4 (23.53%) GAP Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
4 3 (17.65%) Cyber Assurance
4 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
4 3 (17.65%) Information Security
4 3 (17.65%) Key Management
4 3 (17.65%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (17.65%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
4 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
4 3 (17.65%) SIEM
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.76%) Information Assurance
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CISA
1 4 (23.53%) CISM
1 4 (23.53%) CISSP
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CEH
4 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) GCIA
4 1 (5.88%) GCIH
4 1 (5.88%) GIAC
4 1 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (5.88%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (100.00%) NIST
2 6 (35.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (17.65%) GDPR
3 3 (17.65%) GRC
4 2 (11.76%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (11.76%) NCSC
4 2 (11.76%) SOC 2
5 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (5.88%) JSP 440
5 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk