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 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 384 563 611
Rank change year-on-year +179 +48 +212
Permanent jobs citing NIST 800 13 29 62
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.087% 0.086% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.48% 0.67% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4 14 49
10th Percentile - £54,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £76,250 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.58% -17.24% +7.41%
75th Percentile £96,375 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £103,350 £85,500 £95,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £73,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% +11.11%

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 2,731 4,300 6,301
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.26% 12.71% 14.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,721 3,268 4,262
10th Percentile £37,170 £34,675 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £95,000 £92,500
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 1 May 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 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Cloudflare
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
1 1 (7.69%) IaaS
1 1 (7.69%) PaaS
1 1 (7.69%) SaaS
1 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Banking
1 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Practitioner
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Response Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Information Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Junior
4 1 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Risk Management
3 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
4 5 (38.46%) Information Security
5 4 (30.77%) Business Case
5 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) SOA
5 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Security Architecture
6 3 (23.08%) SIEM
6 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
7 2 (15.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 2 (15.38%) Network Segmentation
7 2 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) CCIE
3 2 (15.38%) CCNP
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (15.38%) JNCIE
3 2 (15.38%) JNCIP
3 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (7.69%) CISM
4 1 (7.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (92.31%) NIST
2 4 (30.77%) JSP 440
3 3 (23.08%) GDPR
3 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (15.38%) HIPAA
5 1 (7.69%) GRC
5 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) MaaS360
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft