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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 328 423
Rank change year-on-year +40 +95 +156
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 19 19 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.15% 0.95% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 24
10th Percentile £413 £525 £536
25th Percentile £450 £550 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £690 £680
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% +1.47% -7.01%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £750
90th Percentile £795 £729 -
UK median daily rate £563 £582 £613
% change year-on-year -3.35% -4.98% -16.24%

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 1,649 1,994 3,001
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.55% 13.60% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 1,404 2,180
10th Percentile £311 £300 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
75th Percentile £603 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 70 76
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.97 £14.00 £20.78
Median hourly rate £34.48 £24.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.73% -30.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.81 £58.88
90th Percentile £70.16 £67.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £38.00
% change year-on-year +26.05% -37.37% +40.74%

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 2 July 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 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (10.53%) AWS KMS
3 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) SSL
1 2 (10.53%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Architect
1 4 (21.05%) Consultant
1 4 (21.05%) Risk Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Risk Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Security Tester
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Compliance Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.26%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Security Compliance Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Security Risk Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Technology Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) SOC Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.26%) FIDO
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) OpenID
2 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) SAML
2 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Operational Technology
2 3 (15.79%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.79%) SCADA
3 2 (10.53%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.53%) PKI
4 1 (5.26%) BYOD
4 1 (5.26%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (31.58%) Cloud Security
3 5 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (26.32%) Information Security
3 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
4 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Data-Driven Testing
5 3 (15.79%) GAP Analysis
5 3 (15.79%) IT Audit
5 3 (15.79%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (15.79%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.79%) Security Architecture
5 3 (15.79%) Security Operations
5 3 (15.79%) SIEM
5 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) CISSP
2 7 (36.84%) CISM
3 6 (31.58%) CISA
4 4 (21.05%) Degree
4 4 (21.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
5 2 (10.53%) GIAC
5 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
5 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
6 1 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (5.26%) CCSP
6 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.26%) GCIA
6 1 (5.26%) GCIH
6 1 (5.26%) SANS
6 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (100.00%) NIST
2 9 (47.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (21.05%) GDPR
3 4 (21.05%) GRC
4 3 (15.79%) COBIT
4 3 (15.79%) SOC 2
5 2 (10.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (10.53%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (5.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (5.26%) Istio
2 1 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (5.26%) linkerd
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) QRadar
2 1 (5.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Rapid7
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Zscaler