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

 6 months to
11 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 208 327
Rank change year-on-year +46 +119 -82
Permanent jobs citing NIST 397 252 183
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.66% 1.55% 0.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.93% 8.42% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 258 209 122
10th Percentile £47,896 £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% -9.72%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £78,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £91,991
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - +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 4,000 2,994 3,168
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.68% 18.43% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,541 1,672 1,957
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £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 £55,500
% change year-on-year - +3.60% -7.50%

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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 11 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 (1.51%) SAS
2 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 142 (35.77%) Azure
2 119 (29.97%) AWS
3 74 (18.64%) SaaS
4 38 (9.57%) GCP
5 32 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (6.80%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.02%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (3.02%) Zapier
8 10 (2.52%) 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 (1.76%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (1.01%) Vertex AI
15 3 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
15 3 (0.76%) OCI
15 3 (0.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 74 (18.64%) Network Security
2 63 (15.87%) Firewall
3 29 (7.30%) VPN
4 16 (4.03%) DNS
5 15 (3.78%) WAN
6 14 (3.53%) SD-WAN
6 14 (3.53%) SSH
6 14 (3.53%) SSL
7 13 (3.27%) VLAN
8 12 (3.02%) Intrusion Detection
9 11 (2.77%) DHCP
9 11 (2.77%) HTTP
10 10 (2.52%) BGP
10 10 (2.52%) FTP
10 10 (2.52%) ICMP
10 10 (2.52%) IPsec
10 10 (2.52%) MPLS
10 10 (2.52%) SNMP
11 7 (1.76%) Broadband
11 7 (1.76%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.51%) Power BI
2 4 (1.01%) Tableau
3 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.50%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Jenkins
1 4 (1.01%) JIRA
2 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.50%) GitLab
2 2 (0.50%) JUnit
2 2 (0.50%) NUnit
2 2 (0.50%) Postman
2 2 (0.50%) Selenium
2 2 (0.50%) Snyk
2 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
2 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.50%) Yeoman
3 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.25%) Git
3 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 136 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 68 (17.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 66 (16.62%) Finance
4 63 (15.87%) Law
5 57 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (10.83%) Public Sector
7 30 (7.56%) Legal
8 26 (6.55%) Retail
9 23 (5.79%) Banking
10 19 (4.79%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (3.27%) Aviation
12 11 (2.77%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (2.27%) French Language
15 8 (2.02%) Aerospace
15 8 (2.02%) German Language
16 7 (1.76%) Back Office
17 6 (1.51%) Telecoms
18 4 (1.01%) Police
19 3 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (21.16%) Architect
2 73 (18.39%) Consultant
3 62 (15.62%) Senior
4 60 (15.11%) Security Consultant
5 50 (12.59%) IT Manager
6 49 (12.34%) Security Architect
7 48 (12.09%) IT Services Manager
7 48 (12.09%) Resilience Manager
7 48 (12.09%) Service Manager
8 41 (10.33%) Analyst
9 38 (9.57%) Security Analyst
10 30 (7.56%) Security Manager
11 27 (6.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 24 (6.05%) Security Engineer
13 23 (5.79%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 22 (5.54%) Senior Consultant
15 21 (5.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 21 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (5.04%) Senior Security Consultant
17 15 (3.78%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.09%) Middleware
2 13 (3.27%) OAuth
2 13 (3.27%) SAML
2 13 (3.27%) Terraform
3 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (1.76%) ModSecurity
4 6 (1.51%) ARM Templates
4 6 (1.51%) RESTful
5 5 (1.26%) REST
5 5 (1.26%) SOAP
6 3 (0.76%) GraphQL
6 3 (0.76%) OpenID
7 2 (0.50%) .NET
7 2 (0.50%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.50%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.50%) LDAP
7 2 (0.50%) Node.js
7 2 (0.50%) pytest
7 2 (0.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 77 (19.40%) Security Posture
2 71 (17.88%) Cyber Threat
3 51 (12.85%) Management Information System
4 30 (7.56%) Cloud Native
5 26 (6.55%) Cyberattack
6 20 (5.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 16 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (4.03%) PKI
8 15 (3.78%) Operational Technology
9 14 (3.53%) Cyber Defence
10 13 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (3.02%) Onboarding
12 10 (2.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 9 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
14 8 (2.02%) Blog
15 7 (1.76%) Cyber Security Posture
15 7 (1.76%) Freedom of Information
15 7 (1.76%) Freedom of Information Act
16 6 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
16 6 (1.51%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.78%) Windows
2 8 (2.02%) Linux
3 6 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.25%) CentOS
4 1 (0.25%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (59.70%) Cybersecurity
2 192 (48.36%) Information Security
3 127 (31.99%) Risk Management
4 121 (30.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 110 (27.71%) Agile
6 104 (26.20%) Cloud Security
7 98 (24.69%) Incident Response
8 91 (22.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 90 (22.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 85 (21.41%) Vulnerability Management
11 81 (20.40%) ITIL
12 80 (20.15%) Business Continuity
13 79 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
14 77 (19.40%) DevOps
15 72 (18.14%) SIEM
16 71 (17.88%) Enterprise Architecture
17 67 (16.88%) Threat Modelling
18 65 (16.37%) Roadmaps
19 64 (16.12%) Security Architecture
20 63 (15.87%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 30 (7.56%) PowerShell
2 24 (6.05%) Python
3 7 (1.76%) Java
4 6 (1.51%) Bash
4 6 (1.51%) Bicep
5 5 (1.26%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.01%) Go
7 3 (0.76%) C#
8 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.50%) SQL
8 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 196 (49.37%) CISSP
2 174 (43.83%) CISM
3 98 (24.69%) Security Cleared
4 80 (20.15%) SC Cleared
5 68 (17.13%) Degree
6 48 (12.09%) ITIL Certification
7 45 (11.34%) CRISC
8 34 (8.56%) CISA
9 25 (6.30%) DV Cleared
10 20 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (4.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 14 (3.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 13 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (3.02%) CEH
15 11 (2.77%) CREST Certified
16 10 (2.52%) Azure Certification
16 10 (2.52%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (2.52%) GIAC
17 8 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (2.02%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (66.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 92 (23.17%) GDPR
3 73 (18.39%) GRC
4 59 (14.86%) PCI DSS
5 54 (13.60%) ISO 22301
6 53 (13.35%) NCSC
7 51 (12.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (6.55%) SOC 2
9 23 (5.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 23 (5.79%) NIST 800
10 21 (5.29%) COBIT
11 18 (4.53%) JSP 440
11 18 (4.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 10 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 8 (2.02%) Accessibility
13 8 (2.02%) QA
14 7 (1.76%) SOC 1
15 5 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 19 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.27%) Docker
3 4 (1.01%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.03%) CASB
3 15 (3.78%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (2.52%) FortiGate
4 10 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.76%) Ansible
5 3 (0.76%) SCCM
6 2 (0.50%) Grafana
6 2 (0.50%) 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 80 (20.15%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.05%) Cisco
2 24 (6.05%) Palo Alto
3 15 (3.78%) Google
4 13 (3.27%) OpenAI
5 11 (2.77%) Splunk
6 10 (2.52%) 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
253 hybrid/remote NIST jobs