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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 193 305
Rank change year-on-year +25 +112 -44
Permanent jobs citing NIST 390 264 200
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.56% 1.56% 0.89%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.69% 8.75% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 237 213 122
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £88,750 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,500 £107,500 £89,500
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 4,026 3,018 3,173
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.15% 17.89% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,513 1,640 1,799
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,447 £47,500 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £76,388 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £95,100 £105,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% - -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 2 October 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 (1.54%) SAS
2 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 146 (37.44%) Azure
2 121 (31.03%) AWS
3 77 (19.74%) SaaS
4 43 (11.03%) GCP
5 35 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (7.95%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.08%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (3.08%) Zapier
8 11 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (2.56%) IaaS
9 10 (2.56%) PaaS
10 9 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (2.31%) Mimecast
11 8 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (1.79%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.28%) Serverless
14 4 (1.03%) Vertex AI
15 3 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (0.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 73 (18.72%) Network Security
2 60 (15.38%) Firewall
3 32 (8.21%) VPN
4 15 (3.85%) WAN
5 14 (3.59%) SD-WAN
5 14 (3.59%) SSH
5 14 (3.59%) SSL
6 13 (3.33%) BGP
7 12 (3.08%) DNS
8 11 (2.82%) HTTP
9 10 (2.56%) DHCP
9 10 (2.56%) FTP
9 10 (2.56%) ICMP
9 10 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
9 10 (2.56%) IPsec
9 10 (2.56%) MPLS
9 10 (2.56%) SNMP
9 10 (2.56%) VLAN
10 8 (2.05%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (1.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.54%) Power BI
2 4 (1.03%) Tableau
3 3 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.51%) Metadata
4 2 (0.51%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 7 (1.79%) TeamCity
2 6 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.03%) JIRA
4 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.51%) GitLab
4 2 (0.51%) JUnit
4 2 (0.51%) MLflow
4 2 (0.51%) NUnit
4 2 (0.51%) Postman
4 2 (0.51%) Selenium
4 2 (0.51%) Snyk
4 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.51%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
General
1 138 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 68 (17.44%) Finance
3 65 (16.67%) Law
4 61 (15.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (11.03%) Public Sector
7 28 (7.18%) Retail
8 26 (6.67%) Legal
9 25 (6.41%) Banking
10 19 (4.87%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (3.59%) Aviation
12 13 (3.33%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.56%) Back Office
14 9 (2.31%) French Language
15 8 (2.05%) Aerospace
15 8 (2.05%) German Language
15 8 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.54%) Telecoms
17 4 (1.03%) Police
17 4 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (19.74%) Architect
2 72 (18.46%) Consultant
3 59 (15.13%) Senior
4 56 (14.36%) Security Consultant
5 51 (13.08%) Security Architect
6 50 (12.82%) IT Manager
7 49 (12.56%) Resilience Manager
8 48 (12.31%) IT Services Manager
8 48 (12.31%) Service Manager
9 44 (11.28%) Analyst
10 41 (10.51%) Security Analyst
11 29 (7.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 28 (7.18%) Security Engineer
13 23 (5.90%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 23 (5.90%) Security Manager
14 18 (4.62%) Senior Consultant
15 17 (4.36%) Senior Security Consultant
16 15 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 15 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
16 15 (3.85%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.31%) Middleware
2 21 (5.38%) Terraform
3 13 (3.33%) OAuth
3 13 (3.33%) SAML
4 8 (2.05%) ARM Templates
5 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (1.79%) ModSecurity
6 6 (1.54%) REST
6 6 (1.54%) RESTful
6 6 (1.54%) SOAP
7 3 (0.77%) GraphQL
7 3 (0.77%) LDAP
7 3 (0.77%) OpenID
8 2 (0.51%) .NET
8 2 (0.51%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.51%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.51%) Node.js
8 2 (0.51%) pytest
8 2 (0.51%) React
Miscellaneous
1 78 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 72 (18.46%) Cyber Threat
3 48 (12.31%) Management Information System
4 40 (10.26%) Cloud Native
5 21 (5.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 17 (4.36%) PKI
7 16 (4.10%) Cyberattack
7 16 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (4.10%) Operational Technology
8 14 (3.59%) Cyber Defence
9 13 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (3.08%) Onboarding
11 11 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 10 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
13 9 (2.31%) Blog
14 7 (1.79%) Cyber Security Posture
14 7 (1.79%) Freedom of Information
14 7 (1.79%) Freedom of Information Act
14 7 (1.79%) SCADA
15 6 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.36%) Windows
2 9 (2.31%) Linux
3 6 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) CentOS
4 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (58.46%) Cybersecurity
2 192 (49.23%) Information Security
3 117 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 117 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 110 (28.21%) Agile
5 107 (27.44%) Cloud Security
6 93 (23.85%) Incident Response
7 90 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 89 (22.82%) Disaster Recovery
9 85 (21.79%) Vulnerability Management
10 76 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
11 75 (19.23%) Business Continuity
12 74 (18.97%) DevOps
13 73 (18.72%) Enterprise Architecture
13 73 (18.72%) Threat Modelling
14 71 (18.21%) ITIL
15 69 (17.69%) SIEM
16 68 (17.44%) Security Architecture
17 67 (17.18%) Security Operations
18 64 (16.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (8.46%) Python
2 31 (7.95%) PowerShell
3 15 (3.85%) Java
4 10 (2.56%) Go
5 9 (2.31%) Bash
6 8 (2.05%) Bicep
7 6 (1.54%) SQL
8 5 (1.28%) C#
8 5 (1.28%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.51%) C
11 2 (0.51%) C++
12 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 188 (48.21%) CISSP
2 166 (42.56%) CISM
3 95 (24.36%) Security Cleared
4 77 (19.74%) SC Cleared
5 67 (17.18%) Degree
6 48 (12.31%) ITIL Certification
7 41 (10.51%) CRISC
8 32 (8.21%) CISA
9 23 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (5.90%) DV Cleared
10 14 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (3.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 13 (3.33%) Azure Certification
12 12 (3.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 11 (2.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (2.56%) CREST Certified
15 9 (2.31%) CEH
15 9 (2.31%) CompTIA Security+
15 9 (2.31%) GIAC
16 8 (2.05%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (66.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (23.08%) GDPR
3 71 (18.21%) GRC
4 67 (17.18%) PCI DSS
5 57 (14.62%) NCSC
6 54 (13.85%) ISO 22301
7 44 (11.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (6.67%) SOC 2
9 24 (6.15%) NIST 800
10 20 (5.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 19 (4.87%) COBIT
12 16 (4.10%) JSP 440
12 16 (4.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 10 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 9 (2.31%) Accessibility
15 9 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (1.79%) QA
16 7 (1.79%) SOC 1
17 4 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.56%) Docker
3 4 (1.03%) Firmware
3 4 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (6.41%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.10%) CASB
2 16 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (2.56%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.28%) Grafana
6 3 (0.77%) Cilium
7 2 (0.51%) Ansible
7 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.51%) SCCM
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 87 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.15%) Cisco
3 22 (5.64%) Palo Alto
4 16 (4.10%) Google
5 13 (3.33%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.82%) Qualys
6 11 (2.82%) Splunk
7 9 (2.31%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (2.05%) Tanium
9 5 (1.28%) Netskope
9 5 (1.28%) Tenable
10 4 (1.03%) New Relic
10 4 (1.03%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.03%) Thales
10 4 (1.03%) Zerto
10 4 (1.03%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.77%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.77%) Forcepoint
11 3 (0.77%) Oracle
11 3 (0.77%) Red Hat