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

 6 months to
14 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 193 318
Rank change year-on-year +37 +125 -62
Permanent jobs citing NIST 396 254 183
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.66% 1.56% 0.79%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.00% 8.53% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 256 211 121
10th Percentile £47,783 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,544 £53,649 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,706 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% +6.74% -10.34%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,625 £107,500 £91,991
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,160
% change year-on-year +3.45% +0.47% +3.09%

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 3,961 2,979 3,150
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.57% 18.31% 13.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,496 1,663 1,939
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,447 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +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 £56,282
% change year-on-year - +2.17% -6.20%

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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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NIST over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

NIST salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 (1.52%) SAS
2 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 142 (35.86%) Azure
2 120 (30.30%) AWS
3 74 (18.69%) SaaS
4 39 (9.85%) GCP
5 32 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (6.82%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.03%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (3.03%) Zapier
8 10 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.02%) IaaS
10 8 (2.02%) Mimecast
10 8 (2.02%) PaaS
11 7 (1.77%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (1.01%) Serverless
14 4 (1.01%) Vertex AI
15 3 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
15 3 (0.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 73 (18.43%) Network Security
2 62 (15.66%) Firewall
3 29 (7.32%) VPN
4 16 (4.04%) DNS
5 15 (3.79%) WAN
6 14 (3.54%) SD-WAN
6 14 (3.54%) SSH
6 14 (3.54%) SSL
7 13 (3.28%) VLAN
8 12 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
9 11 (2.78%) DHCP
9 11 (2.78%) HTTP
10 10 (2.53%) BGP
10 10 (2.53%) FTP
10 10 (2.53%) ICMP
10 10 (2.53%) IPsec
10 10 (2.53%) MPLS
10 10 (2.53%) SNMP
11 7 (1.77%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (1.77%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.52%) Power BI
2 4 (1.01%) Tableau
3 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.51%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 5 (1.26%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.01%) JIRA
3 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.51%) GitLab
3 2 (0.51%) JUnit
3 2 (0.51%) NUnit
3 2 (0.51%) Postman
3 2 (0.51%) Selenium
3 2 (0.51%) Snyk
3 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.51%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.51%) Yeoman
4 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Git
4 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
General
1 139 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 68 (17.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 65 (16.41%) Finance
4 64 (16.16%) Law
5 58 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (10.86%) Public Sector
7 30 (7.58%) Legal
8 27 (6.82%) Retail
9 24 (6.06%) Banking
10 18 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (3.54%) Aviation
12 11 (2.78%) Financial Institution
13 9 (2.27%) French Language
13 9 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (2.02%) Aerospace
14 8 (2.02%) German Language
15 7 (1.77%) Back Office
16 6 (1.52%) Telecoms
17 4 (1.01%) Police
18 3 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 85 (21.46%) Architect
2 74 (18.69%) Consultant
3 60 (15.15%) Security Consultant
3 60 (15.15%) Senior
4 50 (12.63%) IT Manager
4 50 (12.63%) Security Architect
5 48 (12.12%) IT Services Manager
5 48 (12.12%) Resilience Manager
5 48 (12.12%) Service Manager
6 42 (10.61%) Analyst
7 39 (9.85%) Security Analyst
8 28 (7.07%) Security Manager
9 27 (6.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 24 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 24 (6.06%) Security Engineer
11 22 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
12 21 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (5.05%) Senior Security Consultant
14 19 (4.80%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 15 (3.79%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.12%) Middleware
2 14 (3.54%) Terraform
3 13 (3.28%) OAuth
3 13 (3.28%) SAML
4 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Graph
4 7 (1.77%) ModSecurity
5 6 (1.52%) ARM Templates
5 6 (1.52%) RESTful
6 5 (1.26%) REST
6 5 (1.26%) SOAP
7 3 (0.76%) GraphQL
7 3 (0.76%) OpenID
8 2 (0.51%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.51%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.51%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.51%) LDAP
8 2 (0.51%) Node.js
8 2 (0.51%) pytest
8 2 (0.51%) React
Miscellaneous
1 75 (18.94%) Security Posture
2 71 (17.93%) Cyber Threat
3 50 (12.63%) Management Information System
4 32 (8.08%) Cloud Native
5 26 (6.57%) Cyberattack
6 20 (5.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 16 (4.04%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (4.04%) Operational Technology
7 16 (4.04%) PKI
8 14 (3.54%) Cyber Defence
9 13 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (3.03%) Onboarding
11 10 (2.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 9 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
13 7 (1.77%) Blog
13 7 (1.77%) Cyber Security Posture
13 7 (1.77%) Freedom of Information
13 7 (1.77%) Freedom of Information Act
13 7 (1.77%) SCADA
14 5 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.79%) Windows
2 8 (2.02%) Linux
3 6 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.25%) CentOS
4 1 (0.25%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (59.34%) Cybersecurity
2 192 (48.48%) Information Security
3 124 (31.31%) Risk Management
4 122 (30.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 110 (27.78%) Agile
6 105 (26.52%) Cloud Security
7 97 (24.49%) Incident Response
8 90 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 89 (22.47%) Disaster Recovery
10 84 (21.21%) Vulnerability Management
11 81 (20.45%) ITIL
12 80 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
13 79 (19.95%) Business Continuity
14 77 (19.44%) DevOps
15 71 (17.93%) Enterprise Architecture
16 70 (17.68%) SIEM
17 68 (17.17%) Threat Modelling
18 65 (16.41%) Roadmaps
18 65 (16.41%) Security Architecture
19 62 (15.66%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 29 (7.32%) PowerShell
2 25 (6.31%) Python
3 9 (2.27%) Java
4 7 (1.77%) Bash
5 6 (1.52%) Bicep
6 5 (1.26%) Go
6 5 (1.26%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.01%) C#
8 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.51%) SQL
8 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.25%) C
9 1 (0.25%) C++
9 1 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 194 (48.99%) CISSP
2 172 (43.43%) CISM
3 97 (24.49%) Security Cleared
4 79 (19.95%) SC Cleared
5 70 (17.68%) Degree
6 48 (12.12%) ITIL Certification
7 43 (10.86%) CRISC
8 33 (8.33%) CISA
9 24 (6.06%) DV Cleared
10 21 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (4.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 14 (3.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 13 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (2.78%) Azure Certification
14 11 (2.78%) CEH
14 11 (2.78%) CREST Certified
15 10 (2.53%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (2.53%) GIAC
16 8 (2.02%) ISACA
16 8 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 93 (23.48%) GDPR
3 72 (18.18%) GRC
4 60 (15.15%) PCI DSS
5 53 (13.38%) ISO 22301
5 53 (13.38%) NCSC
6 50 (12.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (6.57%) SOC 2
8 23 (5.81%) NIST 800
9 22 (5.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 20 (5.05%) COBIT
11 18 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (4.29%) JSP 440
13 10 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 10 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 9 (2.27%) Accessibility
15 8 (2.02%) QA
16 7 (1.77%) SOC 1
17 5 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 19 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.27%) Docker
3 4 (1.01%) Firmware
4 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.04%) CASB
3 15 (3.79%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (2.53%) FortiGate
4 10 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.76%) Ansible
5 3 (0.76%) SCCM
6 2 (0.51%) Grafana
6 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) Nessus
7 1 (0.25%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.25%) Nmap
7 1 (0.25%) OpenVAS
7 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 82 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.06%) Cisco
2 24 (6.06%) Palo Alto
3 15 (3.79%) Google
4 13 (3.28%) OpenAI
5 11 (2.78%) Splunk
6 10 (2.53%) Qualys
7 8 (2.02%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (2.02%) Tanium
8 5 (1.26%) Netskope
9 4 (1.01%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.01%) New Relic
9 4 (1.01%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.01%) Sophos
9 4 (1.01%) Tenable
9 4 (1.01%) Thales
9 4 (1.01%) Zerto
9 4 (1.01%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.76%) Forcepoint
10 3 (0.76%) Red Hat
640 hybrid/remote NIST jobs