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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 191 294
Rank change year-on-year +19 +103 -39
Permanent jobs citing NIST 372 261 194
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.49% 1.58% 0.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.35% 8.78% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 214 212 117
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% -7.14%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £104,250 £107,500 £87,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.86% -

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 3,979 2,972 3,101
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.96% 17.98% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,459 1,624 1,722
10th Percentile £33,500 £33,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,447 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +0.81% +2.91%
75th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £96,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -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

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 12 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 (1.61%) SAS
2 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 144 (38.71%) Azure
2 123 (33.06%) AWS
3 82 (22.04%) SaaS
4 43 (11.56%) GCP
5 34 (9.14%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (8.33%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (3.23%) Zapier
8 10 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (2.69%) Mimecast
9 9 (2.42%) IaaS
9 9 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (2.42%) PaaS
10 8 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (2.15%) Power Platform
11 7 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.88%) Google Compute Engine
11 7 (1.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 74 (19.89%) Network Security
2 63 (16.94%) Firewall
3 36 (9.68%) VPN
4 17 (4.57%) BGP
5 14 (3.76%) SD-WAN
5 14 (3.76%) SSH
5 14 (3.76%) SSL
5 14 (3.76%) WAN
6 11 (2.96%) DNS
6 11 (2.96%) HTTP
7 10 (2.69%) DHCP
7 10 (2.69%) FTP
7 10 (2.69%) ICMP
7 10 (2.69%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (2.69%) IPsec
7 10 (2.69%) MPLS
7 10 (2.69%) SNMP
7 10 (2.69%) VLAN
8 9 (2.42%) Cisco ISE
9 8 (2.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (1.88%) Power BI
2 4 (1.08%) Tableau
3 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.54%) Metadata
3 2 (0.54%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 11 (2.96%) TeamCity
2 6 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.34%) JIRA
4 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.54%) GitLab
4 2 (0.54%) JUnit
4 2 (0.54%) MLflow
4 2 (0.54%) NUnit
4 2 (0.54%) Postman
4 2 (0.54%) Selenium
4 2 (0.54%) Snyk
4 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.54%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.27%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 132 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 67 (18.01%) Finance
3 65 (17.47%) Law
4 56 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (13.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (10.75%) Public Sector
7 27 (7.26%) Retail
8 26 (6.99%) Legal
9 21 (5.65%) Banking
10 17 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (4.30%) Financial Institution
12 14 (3.76%) Aviation
13 13 (3.49%) Back Office
14 9 (2.42%) French Language
15 8 (2.15%) Aerospace
15 8 (2.15%) German Language
16 7 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (1.61%) Telecoms
18 5 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
19 4 (1.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (19.35%) Consultant
2 63 (16.94%) Architect
3 60 (16.13%) Senior
4 56 (15.05%) Security Consultant
5 50 (13.44%) IT Manager
6 49 (13.17%) Resilience Manager
7 48 (12.90%) IT Services Manager
7 48 (12.90%) Security Architect
7 48 (12.90%) Service Manager
8 44 (11.83%) Analyst
9 41 (11.02%) Security Analyst
10 34 (9.14%) Security Engineer
11 29 (7.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 24 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 19 (5.11%) Senior Consultant
14 18 (4.84%) Senior Security Consultant
15 16 (4.30%) Security Manager
16 15 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
16 15 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
16 15 (4.03%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.90%) Middleware
2 24 (6.45%) Terraform
3 14 (3.76%) OAuth
3 14 (3.76%) SAML
4 7 (1.88%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 7 (1.88%) ModSecurity
5 6 (1.61%) REST
5 6 (1.61%) RESTful
5 6 (1.61%) SOAP
6 4 (1.08%) LDAP
6 4 (1.08%) OpenID
7 3 (0.81%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.54%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.54%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.54%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.54%) pytest
8 2 (0.54%) React
8 2 (0.54%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 77 (20.70%) Security Posture
2 70 (18.82%) Cyber Threat
3 48 (12.90%) Management Information System
4 40 (10.75%) Cloud Native
5 21 (5.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 17 (4.57%) Operational Technology
6 17 (4.57%) PKI
7 14 (3.76%) Cyber Defence
8 13 (3.49%) Blog
8 13 (3.49%) Onboarding
9 12 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 11 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.69%) Cloud Security Posture
12 8 (2.15%) SCADA
13 7 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (1.61%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.61%) Freedom of Information
14 6 (1.61%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.57%) Windows
2 8 (2.15%) Linux
3 6 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.27%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (60.22%) Cybersecurity
2 188 (50.54%) Information Security
3 113 (30.38%) Risk Management
4 110 (29.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 106 (28.49%) Cloud Security
6 104 (27.96%) Agile
7 90 (24.19%) Incident Response
8 87 (23.39%) Disaster Recovery
9 86 (23.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 84 (22.58%) Vulnerability Management
11 75 (20.16%) Business Continuity
12 72 (19.35%) Enterprise Architecture
13 71 (19.09%) Threat Modelling
14 70 (18.82%) Security Architecture
15 68 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
16 67 (18.01%) DevOps
17 65 (17.47%) Identity Access Management
17 65 (17.47%) Security Operations
18 63 (16.94%) SIEM
19 61 (16.40%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 36 (9.68%) Python
2 30 (8.06%) PowerShell
3 19 (5.11%) Java
4 14 (3.76%) Go
5 11 (2.96%) SQL
6 9 (2.42%) Bash
7 7 (1.88%) Bicep
8 5 (1.34%) C#
8 5 (1.34%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.54%) C
11 2 (0.54%) C++
12 1 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 186 (50.00%) CISSP
2 164 (44.09%) CISM
3 93 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 75 (20.16%) SC Cleared
5 60 (16.13%) Degree
6 49 (13.17%) ITIL Certification
7 42 (11.29%) CRISC
8 30 (8.06%) CISA
9 24 (6.45%) DV Cleared
10 22 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (4.30%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (4.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 14 (3.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 13 (3.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (2.96%) Azure Certification
15 10 (2.69%) CCSP
16 9 (2.42%) CEH
16 9 (2.42%) CompTIA Security+
16 9 (2.42%) CREST Certified
16 9 (2.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (69.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 83 (22.31%) GDPR
3 71 (19.09%) GRC
4 69 (18.55%) PCI DSS
5 56 (15.05%) NCSC
6 54 (14.52%) ISO 22301
7 42 (11.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (7.53%) SOC 2
9 25 (6.72%) NIST 800
10 18 (4.84%) COBIT
10 18 (4.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 17 (4.57%) JSP 440
12 16 (4.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 10 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 9 (2.42%) Accessibility
16 8 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (1.88%) QA
18 6 (1.61%) SOC 1
19 4 (1.08%) Def Stans
System Software
1 20 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.42%) Docker
3 4 (1.08%) Firmware
3 4 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (7.26%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.57%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (4.30%) CASB
4 11 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (2.69%) FortiGate
6 9 (2.42%) Grafana
7 7 (1.88%) Cilium
8 2 (0.54%) Ansible
8 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.27%) Nessus
9 1 (0.27%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.27%) Nmap
9 1 (0.27%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 88 (23.66%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.72%) Cisco
3 23 (6.18%) Palo Alto
4 19 (5.11%) Google
5 12 (3.23%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.96%) Qualys
6 11 (2.96%) Splunk
7 10 (2.69%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (2.15%) Tanium
9 5 (1.34%) Netskope
9 5 (1.34%) Tenable
10 4 (1.08%) New Relic
10 4 (1.08%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.08%) Thales
10 4 (1.08%) Zerto
10 4 (1.08%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.81%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.81%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.81%) Forcepoint
11 3 (0.81%) Oracle