Hybrid/Remote NIST Job Trends

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring NIST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 218 338
Rank change year-on-year +54 +120 -98
Permanent jobs citing NIST 388 240 177
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.71% 1.45% 0.71%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.11% 7.99% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 256 206 134
10th Percentile £49,000 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,544 £52,787 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,706 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% +3.85% -9.09%
75th Percentile £88,750 £89,688 £80,938
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £96,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -0.69% +3.57%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

NIST 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 3,839 3,005 3,318
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.91% 18.19% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,394 1,709 2,324
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,394 £60,000 £58,600
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% +2.39% -2.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,925 £92,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -5.58%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NIST and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

NIST job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

NIST
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NIST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NIST

NIST
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NIST over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

NIST salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

NIST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.55%) SAS
2 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 142 (36.60%) Azure
2 120 (30.93%) AWS
3 74 (19.07%) SaaS
4 39 (10.05%) GCP
5 31 (7.99%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (5.15%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.09%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (3.09%) Zapier
8 10 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (2.32%) IaaS
9 9 (2.32%) PaaS
10 6 (1.55%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.29%) Mimecast
11 5 (1.29%) Nutanix
12 4 (1.03%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.03%) Vertex AI
13 3 (0.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 66 (17.01%) Network Security
2 56 (14.43%) Firewall
3 26 (6.70%) VPN
4 19 (4.90%) DNS
5 16 (4.12%) WAN
6 14 (3.61%) DHCP
6 14 (3.61%) SD-WAN
6 14 (3.61%) SSH
6 14 (3.61%) SSL
7 13 (3.35%) VLAN
8 11 (2.84%) HTTP
8 11 (2.84%) MPLS
8 11 (2.84%) SNMP
9 10 (2.58%) BGP
9 10 (2.58%) FTP
9 10 (2.58%) ICMP
9 10 (2.58%) IPsec
10 9 (2.32%) CHAP
10 9 (2.32%) Intrusion Detection
11 8 (2.06%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.55%) Power BI
2 4 (1.03%) Tableau
3 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.52%) ZAP BI
4 1 (0.26%) Db2
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.80%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.03%) Git
3 3 (0.77%) JIRA
4 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.52%) GitLab
4 2 (0.52%) JUnit
4 2 (0.52%) NUnit
4 2 (0.52%) Postman
4 2 (0.52%) Selenium
4 2 (0.52%) Snyk
4 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.52%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 128 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.10%) Finance
3 67 (17.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 65 (16.75%) Law
5 55 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (9.28%) Legal
7 35 (9.02%) Public Sector
8 31 (7.99%) Banking
9 29 (7.47%) Retail
10 17 (4.38%) Financial Institution
11 14 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.32%) French Language
14 8 (2.06%) Aviation
14 8 (2.06%) German Language
15 7 (1.80%) Back Office
16 5 (1.29%) Aerospace
17 4 (1.03%) Military
17 4 (1.03%) Police
17 4 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (20.10%) Architect
2 64 (16.49%) Senior
3 62 (15.98%) Consultant
4 52 (13.40%) Security Consultant
5 50 (12.89%) IT Manager
6 48 (12.37%) IT Services Manager
6 48 (12.37%) Resilience Manager
6 48 (12.37%) Service Manager
7 43 (11.08%) Analyst
8 41 (10.57%) Security Architect
9 40 (10.31%) Security Analyst
10 36 (9.28%) Security Manager
11 26 (6.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 24 (6.19%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 23 (5.93%) Senior Consultant
14 21 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (4.64%) Security Engineer
15 18 (4.64%) Senior Security Consultant
16 17 (4.38%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 15 (3.87%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.63%) Middleware
2 16 (4.12%) OAuth
2 16 (4.12%) SAML
3 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (1.55%) ARM Templates
4 6 (1.55%) OpenID
4 6 (1.55%) RESTful
5 5 (1.29%) ModSecurity
5 5 (1.29%) REST
5 5 (1.29%) SOAP
6 4 (1.03%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.52%) .NET
7 2 (0.52%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.52%) LDAP
7 2 (0.52%) Node.js
7 2 (0.52%) pytest
7 2 (0.52%) React
7 2 (0.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 70 (18.04%) Cyber Threat
2 69 (17.78%) Security Posture
3 57 (14.69%) Management Information System
4 31 (7.99%) Cloud Native
4 31 (7.99%) Cyberattack
5 18 (4.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 16 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (3.61%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.61%) PKI
8 12 (3.09%) Cyber Defence
9 10 (2.58%) Blog
9 10 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.06%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.80%) Cloud Security Posture
11 7 (1.80%) Freedom of Information
11 7 (1.80%) Freedom of Information Act
12 6 (1.55%) Cyber Security Posture
12 6 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.38%) Windows
2 12 (3.09%) Linux
3 6 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) AIX
4 1 (0.26%) CentOS
4 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (56.44%) Cybersecurity
2 196 (50.52%) Information Security
3 127 (32.73%) Risk Management
4 116 (29.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 114 (29.38%) Agile
6 100 (25.77%) Incident Response
7 96 (24.74%) Cloud Security
7 96 (24.74%) Disaster Recovery
8 87 (22.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (22.42%) Vulnerability Management
9 84 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
10 81 (20.88%) Business Continuity
11 80 (20.62%) DevOps
12 79 (20.36%) ITIL
13 72 (18.56%) Enterprise Architecture
14 69 (17.78%) SIEM
15 67 (17.27%) Roadmaps
16 61 (15.72%) Test Automation
17 58 (14.95%) Threat Modelling
18 55 (14.18%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 33 (8.51%) PowerShell
2 26 (6.70%) Python
3 8 (2.06%) Java
4 7 (1.80%) Bash
5 6 (1.55%) Bicep
6 5 (1.29%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.03%) Go
8 3 (0.77%) C#
9 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.52%) SQL
9 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 191 (49.23%) CISSP
2 167 (43.04%) CISM
3 91 (23.45%) Security Cleared
4 71 (18.30%) Degree
4 71 (18.30%) SC Cleared
5 48 (12.37%) ITIL Certification
6 44 (11.34%) CRISC
7 36 (9.28%) CISA
8 22 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (5.41%) DV Cleared
10 19 (4.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 17 (4.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 14 (3.61%) CEH
12 14 (3.61%) SANS
13 12 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
13 12 (3.09%) FFIEC
13 12 (3.09%) GIAC
14 11 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (2.84%) CREST Certified
14 11 (2.84%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (66.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 98 (25.26%) GDPR
3 69 (17.78%) GRC
4 58 (14.95%) PCI DSS
5 57 (14.69%) ISO 22301
6 46 (11.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 46 (11.86%) NCSC
7 26 (6.70%) SOC 2
8 24 (6.19%) COBIT
9 23 (5.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 19 (4.90%) NIST 800
11 18 (4.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (4.38%) JSP 440
13 9 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 9 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (1.80%) SOC 1
15 6 (1.55%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (1.29%) QA
System Software
1 20 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.09%) Docker
3 4 (1.03%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.61%) CASB
3 12 (3.09%) Terraform
4 10 (2.58%) FortiGate
5 9 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.03%) Ansible
8 3 (0.77%) SCCM
9 2 (0.52%) Grafana
9 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.26%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.26%) Nessus
10 1 (0.26%) Nmap
10 1 (0.26%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.26%) OpenView
10 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.15%) Google
2 20 (5.15%) Palo Alto
3 19 (4.90%) Cisco
4 13 (3.35%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.09%) Splunk
6 9 (2.32%) Qualys
7 8 (2.06%) Tanium
8 7 (1.80%) VMware
9 5 (1.29%) Commvault
9 5 (1.29%) Okta
9 5 (1.29%) Sophos
10 4 (1.03%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.03%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.03%) Netskope
10 4 (1.03%) Oracle
10 4 (1.03%) Tenable
10 4 (1.03%) Thales
10 4 (1.03%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.77%) New Relic