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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 219 321
Rank change year-on-year +57 +102 -73
Permanent jobs citing NIST 386 237 195
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.71% 1.44% 0.77%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.17% 7.95% 5.75%
Number of salaries quoted 254 203 153
10th Percentile £48,700 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,658 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,706 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £88,750 £89,375 £81,250
90th Percentile £104,250 £107,500 £95,000
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 3,796 2,982 3,393
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.84% 18.10% 13.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,374 1,696 2,392
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,764 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.54%

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 6 August 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 (1.55%) SAS
2 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 142 (36.79%) Azure
2 119 (30.83%) AWS
3 75 (19.43%) SaaS
4 39 (10.10%) GCP
5 32 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (5.96%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.11%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (3.11%) Zapier
8 10 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (2.59%) IaaS
8 10 (2.59%) PaaS
9 9 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.55%) Google Workspace
10 6 (1.55%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.30%) Nutanix
12 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.04%) Mimecast
12 4 (1.04%) Vertex AI
13 3 (0.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 64 (16.58%) Network Security
2 53 (13.73%) Firewall
3 25 (6.48%) VPN
4 20 (5.18%) DNS
5 16 (4.15%) WAN
6 14 (3.63%) DHCP
6 14 (3.63%) SD-WAN
6 14 (3.63%) SSH
6 14 (3.63%) SSL
7 13 (3.37%) VLAN
8 11 (2.85%) HTTP
8 11 (2.85%) MPLS
8 11 (2.85%) SNMP
9 10 (2.59%) BGP
9 10 (2.59%) Broadband
9 10 (2.59%) FTP
9 10 (2.59%) ICMP
9 10 (2.59%) IPsec
10 9 (2.33%) CHAP
11 8 (2.07%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.55%) Power BI
2 4 (1.04%) Tableau
3 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.52%) ZAP BI
4 1 (0.26%) Db2
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.04%) Git
3 3 (0.78%) JIRA
4 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.52%) GitLab
4 2 (0.52%) JUnit
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%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 127 (32.90%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.21%) Finance
3 66 (17.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 64 (16.58%) Law
5 55 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (8.81%) Legal
6 34 (8.81%) Public Sector
7 31 (8.03%) Banking
8 29 (7.51%) Retail
9 17 (4.40%) Financial Institution
10 16 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.33%) French Language
13 8 (2.07%) Aviation
13 8 (2.07%) German Language
14 7 (1.81%) Back Office
15 4 (1.04%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.04%) Military
16 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (19.95%) Architect
2 64 (16.58%) Senior
3 59 (15.28%) Consultant
4 50 (12.95%) IT Manager
5 49 (12.69%) Security Consultant
6 48 (12.44%) IT Services Manager
6 48 (12.44%) Resilience Manager
6 48 (12.44%) Service Manager
7 43 (11.14%) Analyst
8 40 (10.36%) Security Analyst
8 40 (10.36%) Security Architect
9 37 (9.59%) Security Manager
10 26 (6.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 25 (6.48%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 22 (5.70%) Senior Consultant
13 21 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (4.40%) Security Engineer
14 17 (4.40%) Senior Security Consultant
15 16 (4.15%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 15 (3.89%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.69%) Middleware
2 18 (4.66%) OAuth
2 18 (4.66%) SAML
3 8 (2.07%) OpenID
4 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Graph
4 7 (1.81%) REST
4 7 (1.81%) SOAP
5 6 (1.55%) ARM Templates
5 6 (1.55%) GraphQL
5 6 (1.55%) RESTful
6 5 (1.30%) ModSecurity
7 4 (1.04%) LDAP
8 2 (0.52%) .NET
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 72 (18.65%) Cyber Threat
2 69 (17.88%) Security Posture
3 56 (14.51%) Management Information System
4 33 (8.55%) Cyberattack
5 30 (7.77%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 16 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (3.63%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (3.63%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.37%) PKI
10 12 (3.11%) Cyber Defence
11 10 (2.59%) Blog
11 10 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (2.07%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.81%) Cloud Security Posture
13 7 (1.81%) Freedom of Information
13 7 (1.81%) Freedom of Information Act
14 6 (1.55%) Cyber Security Posture
14 6 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 5 (1.30%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.40%) Windows
2 12 (3.11%) Linux
3 6 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) AIX
4 1 (0.26%) CentOS
4 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (56.48%) Cybersecurity
2 194 (50.26%) Information Security
3 126 (32.64%) Risk Management
4 115 (29.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 112 (29.02%) Agile
6 99 (25.65%) Incident Response
7 96 (24.87%) Disaster Recovery
8 95 (24.61%) Cloud Security
9 87 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 87 (22.54%) Vulnerability Management
10 84 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
11 81 (20.98%) Business Continuity
12 80 (20.73%) DevOps
13 79 (20.47%) ITIL
14 71 (18.39%) Enterprise Architecture
15 68 (17.62%) Roadmaps
16 67 (17.36%) SIEM
17 61 (15.80%) Test Automation
18 57 (14.77%) Threat Modelling
19 56 (14.51%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 35 (9.07%) PowerShell
2 24 (6.22%) Python
3 9 (2.33%) Bash
4 7 (1.81%) Java
5 6 (1.55%) Bicep
6 4 (1.04%) Go
6 4 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.04%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.78%) SQL
8 2 (0.52%) C#
8 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 188 (48.70%) CISSP
2 165 (42.75%) CISM
3 88 (22.80%) Security Cleared
4 69 (17.88%) Degree
4 69 (17.88%) SC Cleared
5 48 (12.44%) ITIL Certification
6 43 (11.14%) CRISC
7 36 (9.33%) CISA
8 20 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (5.18%) DV Cleared
9 18 (4.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 16 (4.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 14 (3.63%) CEH
11 14 (3.63%) SANS
12 12 (3.11%) CompTIA Security+
12 12 (3.11%) FFIEC
12 12 (3.11%) GIAC
13 11 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (2.85%) CREST Certified
13 11 (2.85%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (66.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 97 (25.13%) GDPR
3 68 (17.62%) GRC
4 58 (15.03%) PCI DSS
5 57 (14.77%) ISO 22301
6 48 (12.44%) NCSC
7 45 (11.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (6.74%) SOC 2
9 24 (6.22%) COBIT
10 22 (5.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 18 (4.66%) NIST 800
11 18 (4.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (4.15%) JSP 440
13 9 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 9 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (1.81%) SOC 1
15 6 (1.55%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (1.04%) Def Stans
System Software
1 22 (5.70%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.11%) Docker
3 3 (0.78%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.63%) CASB
3 11 (2.85%) Terraform
4 10 (2.59%) FortiGate
5 9 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.04%) Ansible
8 3 (0.78%) SCCM
9 2 (0.52%) Grafana
9 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.26%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.26%) Nessus
10 1 (0.26%) Nmap
10 1 (0.26%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.26%) OpenView
10 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (19.95%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.18%) Cisco
2 20 (5.18%) Google
2 20 (5.18%) Palo Alto
3 13 (3.37%) OpenAI
4 12 (3.11%) Splunk
5 9 (2.33%) Qualys
6 8 (2.07%) Tanium
7 7 (1.81%) VMware
8 5 (1.30%) Commvault
8 5 (1.30%) Okta
9 4 (1.04%) ForgeRock
9 4 (1.04%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.04%) Netskope
9 4 (1.04%) Oracle
9 4 (1.04%) Sophos
9 4 (1.04%) Tenable
9 4 (1.04%) Thales
9 4 (1.04%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.78%) New Relic