NIST Contracts with Work from Home Options

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NIST over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 226 336
Rank change year-on-year +35 +110 +21
Contract jobs citing NIST 171 282 302
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.11% 1.08% 0.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.54% 8.97% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 199 218
10th Percentile £483 £500 £463
25th Percentile £536 £553 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £629 £650 £616
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +5.48% +12.05%
75th Percentile £741 £725 £738
90th Percentile £825 £838 £770
UK median daily rate £625 £645 £625
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.12% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £42.00
25th Percentile - - £45.00
Median hourly rate - £39.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -20.80% -12.28%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £64.15 £65.79
% change year-on-year +3.28% -2.50% +31.58%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

NIST 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 2,269 3,143 5,887
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.71% 12.07% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,534 2,292 4,177
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £420 £419 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +3.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 64 117
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.56 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.16% -3.37% +119.54%
75th Percentile £40.00 £60.94 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.28 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £20.49 £37.75 £28.25
% change year-on-year -45.74% +33.63% +34.36%

NIST
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

NIST trend for jobs with a WFH option

NIST
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.

NIST daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing NIST over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

NIST daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NIST
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

NIST hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

NIST
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 7 (4.09%) Confluence
2 5 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.34%) Apache Solr
3 4 (2.34%) nginx
4 2 (1.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.58%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 34 (19.88%) AWS
2 32 (18.71%) Azure
3 15 (8.77%) GCP
4 8 (4.68%) GitHub
4 8 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.51%) SaaS
6 4 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (2.34%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.17%) IaaS
9 1 (0.58%) Akamai
9 1 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.58%) IBM Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) PaaS
9 1 (0.58%) Serverless
9 1 (0.58%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 32 (18.71%) Network Security
2 21 (12.28%) Firewall
3 12 (7.02%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (5.85%) TCP/IP
5 9 (5.26%) DNS
6 4 (2.34%) HTTPS
6 4 (2.34%) IPsec
6 4 (2.34%) tcpdump
6 4 (2.34%) Wireshark
7 3 (1.75%) Wireless
8 1 (0.58%) Broadband
8 1 (0.58%) DHCP
8 1 (0.58%) DMZ
8 1 (0.58%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.58%) HTTP
8 1 (0.58%) Internet
8 1 (0.58%) SMTP
8 1 (0.58%) VLAN
8 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.92%) MySQL
1 5 (2.92%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.34%) Apache Hive
2 4 (2.34%) Couchbase
2 4 (2.34%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.34%) Tableau
3 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.58%) Big Data
4 1 (0.58%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.58%) Redis
4 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (5.85%) JIRA
2 6 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.34%) IDA Disassembler
4 2 (1.17%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.17%) Git
4 2 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.58%) Darcs
5 1 (0.58%) GitLab
5 1 (0.58%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.58%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.58%) RStudio
5 1 (0.58%) Travis CI
General
1 40 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.54%) Finance
3 21 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.26%) Banking
6 6 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.51%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.92%) Legal
8 4 (2.34%) Retail
9 3 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.17%) Advertising
10 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.17%) Local Government
10 2 (1.17%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (39.18%) Architect
2 53 (30.99%) Security Architect
3 24 (14.04%) Consultant
4 21 (12.28%) Analyst
5 15 (8.77%) Security Consultant
5 15 (8.77%) Technical Architect
6 14 (8.19%) Security Analyst
7 12 (7.02%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 12 (7.02%) Security Engineer
8 10 (5.85%) Lead
9 8 (4.68%) Senior
10 7 (4.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 7 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) Security Manager
10 7 (4.09%) SIEM Architect
11 5 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (2.92%) Information Security Analyst
11 5 (2.92%) Risk Analyst
11 5 (2.92%) Security Technical Consultant
11 5 (2.92%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (2.34%) JSON
2 4 (2.34%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (2.34%) OLE
2 4 (2.34%) YAML
3 1 (0.58%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.58%) CSS
3 1 (0.58%) EDI
3 1 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.58%) HTML
3 1 (0.58%) React
3 1 (0.58%) REST
3 1 (0.58%) RESTful
3 1 (0.58%) SAML
3 1 (0.58%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.04%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.85%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 9 (5.26%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.68%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 6 (3.51%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.92%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.92%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.34%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.34%) SCADA
7 4 (2.34%) YARA
8 3 (1.75%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.17%) IoT
9 2 (1.17%) PKI
9 2 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.58%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.19%) Linux
2 13 (7.60%) Windows
3 4 (2.34%) CentOS
4 3 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.17%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.58%) Android
6 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.58%) MVS
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (57.31%) Cybersecurity
2 65 (38.01%) Information Security
3 48 (28.07%) Security Architecture
4 44 (25.73%) Risk Management
5 40 (23.39%) SIEM
6 26 (15.20%) Incident Response
7 23 (13.45%) Risk Assessment
7 23 (13.45%) Security Management
8 22 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (12.87%) Use Case
9 21 (12.28%) Roadmaps
10 20 (11.70%) Cloud Security
10 20 (11.70%) Information Security Management
10 20 (11.70%) Migration
10 20 (11.70%) Penetration Testing
11 19 (11.11%) DevOps
11 19 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
12 17 (9.94%) Data Protection
13 16 (9.36%) Agile
13 16 (9.36%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.68%) Python
2 6 (3.51%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.34%) C++
3 4 (2.34%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.34%) PHP
4 2 (1.17%) C#
4 2 (1.17%) Go
4 2 (1.17%) Java
5 1 (0.58%) Bash
5 1 (0.58%) C
5 1 (0.58%) R
5 1 (0.58%) Ruby
5 1 (0.58%) Rust
5 1 (0.58%) SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (29.24%) CISSP
2 46 (26.90%) Security Cleared
3 41 (23.98%) CISM
4 37 (21.64%) SC Cleared
5 26 (15.20%) CISA
6 17 (9.94%) DV Cleared
7 16 (9.36%) Degree
8 13 (7.60%) CREST Certified
9 11 (6.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 10 (5.85%) CRISC
11 9 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (3.51%) CEH
12 6 (3.51%) GIAC
12 6 (3.51%) Master's Degree
13 4 (2.34%) CGEIT
13 4 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (2.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 4 (2.34%) OSCP
14 3 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (1.75%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (56.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (14.62%) NCSC
3 23 (13.45%) GDPR
4 16 (9.36%) PCI DSS
5 14 (8.19%) GRC
6 9 (5.26%) NIST 800
7 8 (4.68%) COBIT
7 8 (4.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (2.92%) HIPAA
9 4 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (2.34%) QA
10 3 (1.75%) GPG13
10 3 (1.75%) ISA99
10 3 (1.75%) JSP 440
11 2 (1.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (1.17%) ISAE 3402
11 2 (1.17%) ISO 22301
11 2 (1.17%) ISO 31000
11 2 (1.17%) RMADS
11 2 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (4.68%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.34%) Docker
2 4 (2.34%) Snort
3 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (8.19%) Terraform
2 10 (5.85%) Ansible
3 8 (4.68%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.09%) Kibana
5 4 (2.34%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 3 (1.75%) logstash
6 3 (1.75%) Nessus
7 2 (1.17%) Grafana
7 2 (1.17%) Packer
7 2 (1.17%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.58%) CASB
8 1 (0.58%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.58%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.02%) LogRhythm
3 10 (5.85%) Google
3 10 (5.85%) Splunk
4 6 (3.51%) Rapid7
5 4 (2.34%) Sophos
6 3 (1.75%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.75%) IBM
7 2 (1.17%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.17%) Oracle
7 2 (1.17%) Qualys
7 2 (1.17%) SAP
7 2 (1.17%) VMware
8 1 (0.58%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.58%) Cadence
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco
8 1 (0.58%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.58%) Lotus
8 1 (0.58%) McAfee
8 1 (0.58%) Netskope