NIST 800 Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring NIST 800 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NIST 800 over the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 552 564
Rank change year-on-year +92 +12 +305
Permanent jobs citing NIST 800 15 17 42
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.052% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.45% 0.41% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 42
10th Percentile £81,250 - £60,000
25th Percentile £86,250 £57,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £63,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.73% -9.29% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £74,375 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,600 £90,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £88,750 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +22.41% +3.57% -

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,311 4,165 5,007
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.78% 12.66% 14.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,880 3,002 3,633
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,089 £37,397
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.14% -3.39% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NIST 800.

NIST 800 salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

NIST 800
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing NIST 800 over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

NIST 800 salary 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Cloudflare
1 1 (6.67%) GCP
1 1 (6.67%) IaaS
1 1 (6.67%) PaaS
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
1 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
General
1 8 (53.33%) Banking
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Security Specialist
2 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 4 (26.67%) IT Security Specialist
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Practitioner
5 1 (6.67%) Incident Response Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Junior
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Taxonomies
2 6 (40.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (73.33%) Information Security
3 10 (66.67%) Risk Management
4 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (53.33%) Incident Management
5 8 (53.33%) Risk Register
5 8 (53.33%) Vulnerability Management
6 7 (46.67%) Risk Assessment
7 6 (40.00%) Data Analysis
8 4 (26.67%) DevOps
9 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
9 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 3 (20.00%) Security Architecture
9 3 (20.00%) Security Testing
9 3 (20.00%) SIEM
10 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
10 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
10 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
10 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Degree
1 10 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 9 (60.00%) CISM
3 8 (53.33%) CRISC
4 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) CCIE
5 2 (13.33%) CCNP
5 2 (13.33%) CISA
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (13.33%) JNCIE
5 2 (13.33%) JNCIP
6 1 (6.67%) CISSP
6 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (93.33%) NIST
2 8 (53.33%) GRC
2 8 (53.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (53.33%) SOC 1
2 8 (53.33%) SOC 2
3 3 (20.00%) GDPR
4 2 (13.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (6.67%) JSP 440
5 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) RSA Archer
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) MaaS360
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft