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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 189 309
Rank change year-on-year +19 +120 -49
Permanent jobs citing NIST 384 260 195
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.56% 1.59% 0.85%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.54% 8.61% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 238 213 122
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,638 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.09% +6.74% -9.72%
75th Percentile £88,438 £90,000 £78,500
90th Percentile £100,375 £107,500 £91,791
UK median annual salary £75,000 £71,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.72% +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 4,027 3,021 3,166
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.34% 18.47% 13.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,527 1,664 1,847
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,150 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,447 £47,500 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.85% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £76,201 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.17%

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

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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 24 September 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 (1.56%) SAS
2 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 142 (36.98%) Azure
2 120 (31.25%) AWS
3 75 (19.53%) SaaS
4 40 (10.42%) GCP
5 33 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (7.03%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.13%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (3.13%) Zapier
8 10 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.08%) IaaS
10 8 (2.08%) Mimecast
10 8 (2.08%) PaaS
11 7 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (1.82%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (1.30%) Serverless
14 4 (1.04%) Vertex AI
15 3 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
15 3 (0.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 71 (18.49%) Network Security
2 58 (15.10%) Firewall
3 29 (7.55%) VPN
4 15 (3.91%) WAN
5 14 (3.65%) DNS
5 14 (3.65%) SD-WAN
5 14 (3.65%) SSH
5 14 (3.65%) SSL
6 12 (3.13%) VLAN
7 11 (2.86%) BGP
7 11 (2.86%) HTTP
8 10 (2.60%) DHCP
8 10 (2.60%) FTP
8 10 (2.60%) ICMP
8 10 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
8 10 (2.60%) IPsec
8 10 (2.60%) MPLS
8 10 (2.60%) SNMP
9 7 (1.82%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (1.82%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.56%) Power BI
2 4 (1.04%) Tableau
3 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.52%) ZAP BI
4 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.26%) Metadata
4 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.30%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.04%) JIRA
2 4 (1.04%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.52%) GitLab
3 2 (0.52%) JUnit
3 2 (0.52%) NUnit
3 2 (0.52%) Postman
3 2 (0.52%) Selenium
3 2 (0.52%) Snyk
3 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.52%) Yeoman
4 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.26%) MLflow
General
1 133 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.41%) Finance
2 63 (16.41%) Law
3 62 (16.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 56 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (11.46%) Public Sector
6 27 (7.03%) Retail
7 26 (6.77%) Legal
8 24 (6.25%) Banking
9 19 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (3.65%) Aviation
11 11 (2.86%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.34%) French Language
13 8 (2.08%) Aerospace
13 8 (2.08%) Back Office
13 8 (2.08%) German Language
13 8 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.56%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.04%) Police
15 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (20.57%) Architect
2 72 (18.75%) Consultant
3 57 (14.84%) Security Consultant
3 57 (14.84%) Senior
4 50 (13.02%) IT Manager
4 50 (13.02%) Security Architect
5 49 (12.76%) Resilience Manager
6 48 (12.50%) IT Services Manager
6 48 (12.50%) Service Manager
7 42 (10.94%) Analyst
8 39 (10.16%) Security Analyst
9 28 (7.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 25 (6.51%) Security Engineer
11 23 (5.99%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 23 (5.99%) Security Manager
12 19 (4.95%) Senior Consultant
13 18 (4.69%) Senior Security Consultant
14 15 (3.91%) Senior Analyst
14 15 (3.91%) Senior Security Analyst
14 15 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.50%) Middleware
2 16 (4.17%) Terraform
3 12 (3.13%) OAuth
3 12 (3.13%) SAML
4 7 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
4 7 (1.82%) ModSecurity
5 6 (1.56%) ARM Templates
5 6 (1.56%) RESTful
6 5 (1.30%) REST
6 5 (1.30%) SOAP
7 3 (0.78%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.52%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.52%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.52%) LDAP
8 2 (0.52%) Node.js
8 2 (0.52%) OpenID
8 2 (0.52%) pytest
8 2 (0.52%) React
Miscellaneous
1 73 (19.01%) Security Posture
2 71 (18.49%) Cyber Threat
3 47 (12.24%) Management Information System
4 35 (9.11%) Cloud Native
5 21 (5.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 19 (4.95%) Cyberattack
7 17 (4.43%) PKI
8 16 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (4.17%) Operational Technology
9 14 (3.65%) Cyber Defence
10 13 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (3.13%) Onboarding
12 10 (2.60%) Cloud Security Posture
12 10 (2.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 7 (1.82%) Blog
13 7 (1.82%) Cyber Security Posture
13 7 (1.82%) Freedom of Information
13 7 (1.82%) Freedom of Information Act
13 7 (1.82%) SCADA
14 6 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.17%) Windows
2 8 (2.08%) Linux
3 6 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) CentOS
4 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (59.11%) Cybersecurity
2 189 (49.22%) Information Security
3 117 (30.47%) Risk Management
3 117 (30.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 109 (28.39%) Agile
5 104 (27.08%) Cloud Security
6 91 (23.70%) Incident Response
7 87 (22.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 87 (22.66%) Disaster Recovery
8 82 (21.35%) Vulnerability Management
9 75 (19.53%) Business Continuity
10 74 (19.27%) ITIL
10 74 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
11 73 (19.01%) DevOps
12 71 (18.49%) Enterprise Architecture
12 71 (18.49%) Threat Modelling
13 67 (17.45%) SIEM
14 65 (16.93%) Security Architecture
15 62 (16.15%) Security Operations
16 61 (15.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (7.29%) PowerShell
1 28 (7.29%) Python
2 12 (3.13%) Java
3 8 (2.08%) Bash
4 7 (1.82%) Go
5 6 (1.56%) Bicep
6 5 (1.30%) C#
6 5 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.78%) SQL
8 2 (0.52%) C
8 2 (0.52%) C++
8 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 188 (48.96%) CISSP
2 166 (43.23%) CISM
3 94 (24.48%) Security Cleared
4 76 (19.79%) SC Cleared
5 65 (16.93%) Degree
6 48 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
7 41 (10.68%) CRISC
8 32 (8.33%) CISA
9 23 (5.99%) DV Cleared
10 21 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (3.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 12 (3.13%) Azure Certification
12 12 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 11 (2.86%) CREST Certified
14 9 (2.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 9 (2.34%) CEH
14 9 (2.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (2.34%) GIAC
15 8 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (67.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 89 (23.18%) GDPR
3 71 (18.49%) GRC
4 62 (16.15%) PCI DSS
5 56 (14.58%) NCSC
6 54 (14.06%) ISO 22301
7 45 (11.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 25 (6.51%) SOC 2
9 24 (6.25%) NIST 800
10 20 (5.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 19 (4.95%) COBIT
12 16 (4.17%) JSP 440
12 16 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 10 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 9 (2.34%) Accessibility
15 9 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (1.82%) QA
16 7 (1.82%) SOC 1
17 4 (1.04%) Def Stans
System Software
1 18 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.08%) Docker
3 4 (1.04%) Firmware
4 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (5.21%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.17%) CASB
3 15 (3.91%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (2.60%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.78%) Grafana
7 2 (0.52%) Ansible
7 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.52%) SCCM
8 1 (0.26%) Cilium
8 1 (0.26%) Nessus
8 1 (0.26%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.26%) Nmap
8 1 (0.26%) OpenVAS
8 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 82 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.99%) Cisco
2 23 (5.99%) Palo Alto
3 14 (3.65%) Google
4 13 (3.39%) OpenAI
5 11 (2.86%) Qualys
5 11 (2.86%) Splunk
6 8 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (2.08%) Tanium
7 5 (1.30%) Netskope
7 5 (1.30%) Tenable
8 4 (1.04%) New Relic
8 4 (1.04%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.04%) Thales
8 4 (1.04%) Zerto
8 4 (1.04%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.78%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.78%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.78%) Oracle
9 3 (0.78%) Red Hat