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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 187 287
Rank change year-on-year +18 +100 -26
Permanent jobs citing NIST 382 266 192
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.52% 1.61% 0.92%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.51% 8.90% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 221 214 115
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 £77,625
90th Percentile £102,500 £107,500 £88,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.01% +1.07% -

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 4,015 2,990 3,094
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.97% 18.09% 14.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,486 1,631 1,716
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £35,375
25th Percentile £44,447 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% - +3.74%
75th Percentile £76,238 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £96,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,965
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.80% -3.39%

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 15 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 (1.57%) SAS
2 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 146 (38.22%) Azure
2 125 (32.72%) AWS
3 84 (21.99%) SaaS
4 44 (11.52%) GCP
5 35 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (8.90%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.14%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (3.14%) Zapier
8 11 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (2.88%) Mimecast
9 10 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (2.36%) IaaS
10 9 (2.36%) PaaS
11 8 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (2.09%) Google Compute Engine
11 8 (2.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (2.09%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 77 (20.16%) Network Security
2 67 (17.54%) Firewall
3 39 (10.21%) VPN
4 18 (4.71%) BGP
5 14 (3.66%) SD-WAN
5 14 (3.66%) SSH
5 14 (3.66%) SSL
5 14 (3.66%) WAN
6 11 (2.88%) DNS
6 11 (2.88%) HTTP
7 10 (2.62%) Cisco ISE
7 10 (2.62%) DHCP
7 10 (2.62%) FTP
7 10 (2.62%) ICMP
7 10 (2.62%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (2.62%) IPsec
7 10 (2.62%) MPLS
7 10 (2.62%) SNMP
7 10 (2.62%) VLAN
8 9 (2.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.83%) Power BI
3 4 (1.05%) Tableau
4 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.52%) Metadata
4 2 (0.52%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 12 (3.14%) TeamCity
2 6 (1.57%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.31%) JIRA
4 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.52%) GitLab
4 2 (0.52%) JUnit
4 2 (0.52%) MLflow
4 2 (0.52%) NUnit
4 2 (0.52%) Postman
4 2 (0.52%) Selenium
4 2 (0.52%) Snyk
4 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.52%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
General
1 135 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 71 (18.59%) Finance
3 66 (17.28%) Law
4 57 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (13.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (10.73%) Public Sector
7 27 (7.07%) Legal
7 27 (7.07%) Retail
8 21 (5.50%) Banking
9 17 (4.45%) Financial Institution
9 17 (4.45%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (3.66%) Aviation
10 14 (3.66%) Back Office
11 9 (2.36%) French Language
12 8 (2.09%) Aerospace
12 8 (2.09%) German Language
13 7 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.57%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.05%) Police
Job Titles
1 73 (19.11%) Consultant
2 65 (17.02%) Architect
3 61 (15.97%) Senior
4 56 (14.66%) Security Consultant
5 50 (13.09%) IT Manager
5 50 (13.09%) Security Architect
6 49 (12.83%) Resilience Manager
7 48 (12.57%) IT Services Manager
7 48 (12.57%) Service Manager
8 45 (11.78%) Analyst
9 42 (10.99%) Security Analyst
10 36 (9.42%) Security Engineer
11 29 (7.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 24 (6.28%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 19 (4.97%) Senior Consultant
14 18 (4.71%) Senior Security Consultant
15 17 (4.45%) Lead
15 17 (4.45%) Security Manager
16 16 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
17 15 (3.93%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.57%) Middleware
2 25 (6.54%) Terraform
3 14 (3.66%) OAuth
3 14 (3.66%) SAML
4 7 (1.83%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Graph
4 7 (1.83%) ModSecurity
5 6 (1.57%) REST
5 6 (1.57%) RESTful
5 6 (1.57%) SOAP
6 4 (1.05%) LDAP
6 4 (1.05%) OpenID
7 3 (0.79%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.52%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.52%) Node.js
8 2 (0.52%) pytest
8 2 (0.52%) React
8 2 (0.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 81 (21.20%) Security Posture
2 71 (18.59%) Cyber Threat
3 50 (13.09%) Management Information System
4 42 (10.99%) Cloud Native
5 22 (5.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 18 (4.71%) PKI
7 17 (4.45%) Operational Technology
8 15 (3.93%) Blog
9 14 (3.66%) Cyber Defence
10 13 (3.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 13 (3.40%) Onboarding
11 12 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (2.88%) Cloud Security Posture
12 11 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (2.09%) SCADA
14 6 (1.57%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.57%) Freedom of Information
14 6 (1.57%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.45%) Windows
2 8 (2.09%) Linux
3 6 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (60.73%) Cybersecurity
2 191 (50.00%) Information Security
3 119 (31.15%) Risk Management
4 111 (29.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 109 (28.53%) Cloud Security
6 105 (27.49%) Agile
7 94 (24.61%) Incident Response
8 88 (23.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 88 (23.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 87 (22.77%) Vulnerability Management
10 76 (19.90%) Business Continuity
11 74 (19.37%) Security Architecture
12 73 (19.11%) Enterprise Architecture
12 73 (19.11%) Threat Modelling
13 70 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (17.80%) DevOps
14 68 (17.80%) Identity Access Management
15 66 (17.28%) Security Operations
16 65 (17.02%) SIEM
17 63 (16.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.69%) Python
2 30 (7.85%) PowerShell
3 20 (5.24%) Java
4 15 (3.93%) Go
5 12 (3.14%) SQL
6 9 (2.36%) Bash
7 7 (1.83%) Bicep
8 5 (1.31%) C#
8 5 (1.31%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.52%) C
11 2 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 190 (49.74%) CISSP
2 166 (43.46%) CISM
3 95 (24.87%) Security Cleared
4 76 (19.90%) SC Cleared
5 61 (15.97%) Degree
6 50 (13.09%) ITIL Certification
7 42 (10.99%) CRISC
8 30 (7.85%) CISA
9 25 (6.54%) DV Cleared
10 22 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (4.45%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (4.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 14 (3.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (3.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 11 (2.88%) Azure Certification
14 11 (2.88%) CCSP
15 9 (2.36%) CEH
15 9 (2.36%) CREST Certified
15 9 (2.36%) GIAC
15 9 (2.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (69.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 86 (22.51%) GDPR
3 73 (19.11%) GRC
4 72 (18.85%) PCI DSS
5 59 (15.45%) NCSC
6 54 (14.14%) ISO 22301
7 45 (11.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 29 (7.59%) SOC 2
9 25 (6.54%) NIST 800
10 18 (4.71%) COBIT
10 18 (4.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 18 (4.71%) JSP 440
11 16 (4.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 10 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 9 (2.36%) Accessibility
15 7 (1.83%) QA
16 6 (1.57%) SOC 1
17 4 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (5.50%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.36%) Docker
3 4 (1.05%) Firmware
3 4 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (7.33%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (4.19%) CASB
4 11 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (2.62%) FortiGate
5 10 (2.62%) Grafana
6 8 (2.09%) Cilium
7 2 (0.52%) Ansible
7 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
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%) SCCM
Vendors
1 91 (23.82%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.81%) Cisco
3 24 (6.28%) Palo Alto
4 20 (5.24%) Google
5 12 (3.14%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.88%) CrowdStrike
6 11 (2.88%) Qualys
6 11 (2.88%) Splunk
7 8 (2.09%) Tanium
8 5 (1.31%) Netskope
8 5 (1.31%) Tenable
9 4 (1.05%) New Relic
9 4 (1.05%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.05%) Thales
9 4 (1.05%) Zerto
9 4 (1.05%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.79%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.79%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.79%) Forcepoint
10 3 (0.79%) Oracle