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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 231 324
Rank change year-on-year +71 +93 -77
Permanent jobs citing NIST 395 232 207
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.78% 1.41% 0.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.61% 7.83% 5.88%
Number of salaries quoted 257 198 168
10th Percentile £49,150 £47,500 £47,850
25th Percentile £56,000 £51,500 £57,444
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,706 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £103,500 £107,500 £95,750
UK median annual salary £74,000 £72,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -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 3,722 2,964 3,522
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.80% 17.98% 13.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,346 1,685 2,516
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,900 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%

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 31 July 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 (1.52%) SAS
2 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 149 (37.72%) Azure
2 116 (29.37%) AWS
3 75 (18.99%) SaaS
4 38 (9.62%) GCP
5 31 (7.85%) Entra ID
5 31 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (3.54%) Google Workspace
7 12 (3.04%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (3.04%) Zapier
8 11 (2.78%) IaaS
8 11 (2.78%) PaaS
9 10 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.52%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.27%) Nutanix
13 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.01%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.01%) Vertex AI
14 3 (0.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 63 (15.95%) Network Security
2 52 (13.16%) Firewall
3 26 (6.58%) VPN
4 20 (5.06%) DNS
5 18 (4.56%) Broadband
6 15 (3.80%) WAN
7 14 (3.54%) DHCP
7 14 (3.54%) SSH
7 14 (3.54%) SSL
8 13 (3.29%) SD-WAN
8 13 (3.29%) VLAN
9 11 (2.78%) HTTP
9 11 (2.78%) MPLS
9 11 (2.78%) SNMP
10 10 (2.53%) BGP
10 10 (2.53%) CHAP
10 10 (2.53%) FTP
10 10 (2.53%) ICMP
10 10 (2.53%) IPsec
11 8 (2.03%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.52%) Power BI
2 4 (1.01%) Tableau
3 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.25%) Db2
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.25%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.01%) Git
3 3 (0.76%) JIRA
4 2 (0.51%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.25%) GitLab
5 1 (0.25%) JUnit
5 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.25%) NUnit
5 1 (0.25%) Postman
5 1 (0.25%) Selenium
5 1 (0.25%) Snyk
5 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 130 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 80 (20.25%) Finance
3 65 (16.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 63 (15.95%) Law
5 54 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (8.61%) Legal
6 34 (8.61%) Public Sector
7 32 (8.10%) Banking
8 29 (7.34%) Retail
9 25 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (4.30%) Financial Institution
11 12 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.03%) Aviation
12 8 (2.03%) French Language
13 7 (1.77%) Back Office
13 7 (1.77%) German Language
14 6 (1.52%) Games
15 4 (1.01%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.76%) Military
16 3 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (19.75%) Architect
2 67 (16.96%) Senior
3 59 (14.94%) Consultant
4 50 (12.66%) IT Manager
5 49 (12.41%) Security Consultant
6 48 (12.15%) IT Services Manager
6 48 (12.15%) Resilience Manager
6 48 (12.15%) Service Manager
7 43 (10.89%) Analyst
8 41 (10.38%) Security Architect
9 40 (10.13%) Security Analyst
10 38 (9.62%) Security Manager
11 26 (6.58%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 26 (6.58%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 22 (5.57%) Senior Consultant
13 21 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (4.30%) Senior Security Consultant
15 16 (4.05%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 16 (4.05%) Security Engineer
16 15 (3.80%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.41%) Middleware
2 26 (6.58%) OAuth
2 26 (6.58%) SAML
3 16 (4.05%) OpenID
4 15 (3.80%) REST
4 15 (3.80%) SOAP
5 14 (3.54%) GraphQL
6 12 (3.04%) LDAP
7 7 (1.77%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (1.27%) ModSecurity
8 5 (1.27%) RESTful
9 2 (0.51%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.25%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.25%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.25%) Node.js
10 1 (0.25%) pytest
10 1 (0.25%) React
10 1 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 68 (17.22%) Security Posture
3 56 (14.18%) Management Information System
4 41 (10.38%) Cyberattack
5 30 (7.59%) Cloud Native
6 17 (4.30%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 16 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (3.54%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.29%) PKI
10 11 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
11 10 (2.53%) Blog
11 10 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (2.03%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.77%) Cloud Security Posture
13 7 (1.77%) Freedom of Information
13 7 (1.77%) Freedom of Information Act
14 6 (1.52%) Cyber Security Posture
15 5 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 4 (1.01%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.05%) Windows
2 11 (2.78%) Linux
3 5 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.25%) AIX
4 1 (0.25%) CentOS
4 1 (0.25%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (57.97%) Cybersecurity
2 194 (49.11%) Information Security
3 126 (31.90%) Risk Management
4 116 (29.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 112 (28.35%) Agile
6 98 (24.81%) Incident Response
7 96 (24.30%) Disaster Recovery
8 95 (24.05%) Cloud Security
9 86 (21.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 86 (21.77%) Vulnerability Management
10 85 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
11 80 (20.25%) Business Continuity
11 80 (20.25%) DevOps
12 79 (20.00%) ITIL
13 76 (19.24%) Roadmaps
14 73 (18.48%) Enterprise Architecture
15 66 (16.71%) SIEM
16 60 (15.19%) Test Automation
17 57 (14.43%) Threat Modelling
18 56 (14.18%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 43 (10.89%) PowerShell
2 23 (5.82%) Python
3 17 (4.30%) Bash
4 12 (3.04%) T-SQL
5 7 (1.77%) Bicep
5 7 (1.77%) SQL
6 6 (1.52%) Java
7 3 (0.76%) Go
7 3 (0.76%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.51%) C#
8 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 188 (47.59%) CISSP
2 166 (42.03%) CISM
3 87 (22.03%) Security Cleared
4 69 (17.47%) Degree
5 68 (17.22%) SC Cleared
6 48 (12.15%) ITIL Certification
7 42 (10.63%) CRISC
8 37 (9.37%) CISA
9 21 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (5.06%) DV Cleared
11 18 (4.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 16 (4.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 15 (3.80%) SANS
14 13 (3.29%) CEH
14 13 (3.29%) FFIEC
15 12 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (3.04%) CREST Certified
16 11 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
16 11 (2.78%) GIAC
16 11 (2.78%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (65.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 99 (25.06%) GDPR
3 66 (16.71%) GRC
4 59 (14.94%) PCI DSS
5 57 (14.43%) ISO 22301
5 57 (14.43%) NCSC
6 44 (11.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (6.58%) SOC 2
8 25 (6.33%) COBIT
9 22 (5.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 18 (4.56%) NIST 800
10 18 (4.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (4.05%) JSP 440
12 9 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 9 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 7 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (1.77%) SOC 1
14 6 (1.52%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (1.01%) Def Stans
System Software
1 30 (7.59%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.04%) Docker
3 3 (0.76%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.29%) CASB
3 11 (2.78%) Terraform
4 10 (2.53%) FortiGate
5 9 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.01%) Ansible
8 3 (0.76%) SCCM
9 1 (0.25%) Grafana
9 1 (0.25%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.25%) Nessus
9 1 (0.25%) Nmap
9 1 (0.25%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.25%) OpenView
9 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.25%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 78 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.06%) Google
3 19 (4.81%) Cisco
3 19 (4.81%) Palo Alto
4 13 (3.29%) OpenAI
5 11 (2.78%) Splunk
6 8 (2.03%) Qualys
6 8 (2.03%) Tanium
7 7 (1.77%) VMware
8 5 (1.27%) Commvault
8 5 (1.27%) Okta
9 4 (1.01%) ForgeRock
9 4 (1.01%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.01%) Oracle
9 4 (1.01%) Sophos
9 4 (1.01%) Tenable
9 4 (1.01%) Thales
10 3 (0.76%) New Relic
10 3 (0.76%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.76%) Zerto