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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 250 325
Rank change year-on-year +104 +75 -72
Permanent jobs citing NIST 386 200 267
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.82% 1.21% 0.83%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.86% 6.84% 6.43%
Number of salaries quoted 259 172 222
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £57,331
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £67,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.63% -5.26% +1.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,437 £84,919
90th Percentile £112,500 £106,365 £94,699
UK median annual salary £73,706 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.66% - +5.84%

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 3,553 2,925 4,150
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.74% 17.76% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,280 1,641 3,054
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% +9.52% -8.70%

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 10 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 5 (1.30%) SAS
2 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 152 (39.38%) Azure
2 98 (25.39%) AWS
3 58 (15.03%) SaaS
4 46 (11.92%) Entra ID
5 38 (9.84%) GCP
6 31 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (7.77%) Google Workspace
8 12 (3.11%) Anthropic Claude
8 12 (3.11%) IaaS
8 12 (3.11%) PaaS
8 12 (3.11%) Zapier
9 9 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (2.33%) Nutanix
10 6 (1.55%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.04%) Mimecast
12 4 (1.04%) Vertex AI
13 3 (0.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 60 (15.54%) Network Security
2 48 (12.44%) Firewall
3 32 (8.29%) Broadband
4 26 (6.74%) VPN
5 21 (5.44%) DNS
6 15 (3.89%) DHCP
7 14 (3.63%) SSH
7 14 (3.63%) SSL
8 13 (3.37%) CHAP
8 13 (3.37%) VLAN
9 12 (3.11%) WAN
10 11 (2.85%) HTTP
10 11 (2.85%) MPLS
10 11 (2.85%) SNMP
11 10 (2.59%) BGP
11 10 (2.59%) FTP
11 10 (2.59%) ICMP
11 10 (2.59%) IPsec
11 10 (2.59%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.81%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.55%) Power BI
2 4 (1.04%) Tableau
3 1 (0.26%) Db2
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (1.30%) Git
1 5 (1.30%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.78%) JIRA
3 2 (0.52%) Yeoman
4 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
General
1 131 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 87 (22.54%) Finance
3 61 (15.80%) Law
4 58 (15.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (10.62%) Organisational Skills
7 35 (9.07%) Legal
8 34 (8.81%) Banking
9 30 (7.77%) Retail
10 29 (7.51%) Public Sector
11 17 (4.40%) Financial Institution
12 14 (3.63%) Games
13 10 (2.59%) Aviation
14 7 (1.81%) Back Office
15 6 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (1.04%) French Language
16 4 (1.04%) German Language
17 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.52%) Social Housing
18 1 (0.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 82 (21.24%) Architect
2 69 (17.88%) Senior
3 50 (12.95%) Consultant
4 44 (11.40%) Analyst
5 42 (10.88%) Security Architect
6 41 (10.62%) Security Analyst
7 39 (10.10%) Security Consultant
8 38 (9.84%) Security Manager
9 33 (8.55%) IT Manager
10 29 (7.51%) IT Services Manager
10 29 (7.51%) Resilience Manager
10 29 (7.51%) Service Manager
11 26 (6.74%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 25 (6.48%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 21 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (4.40%) Information Manager
14 17 (4.40%) Senior Consultant
15 15 (3.89%) Auditor
15 15 (3.89%) Security Specialist
15 15 (3.89%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.14%) OAuth
1 43 (11.14%) SAML
2 33 (8.55%) OpenID
3 30 (7.77%) Middleware
4 29 (7.51%) REST
4 29 (7.51%) SOAP
5 28 (7.25%) GraphQL
5 28 (7.25%) LDAP
6 7 (1.81%) ARM Templates
6 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.30%) ModSecurity
8 4 (1.04%) RESTful
9 2 (0.52%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.26%) CSS
10 1 (0.26%) HTML
10 1 (0.26%) LangChain
10 1 (0.26%) LlamaIndex
10 1 (0.26%) pgvector
10 1 (0.26%) Semantic Kernel
10 1 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 71 (18.39%) Cyber Threat
2 65 (16.84%) Security Posture
3 58 (15.03%) Cyberattack
4 52 (13.47%) Management Information System
5 27 (6.99%) Cloud Native
6 17 (4.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 14 (3.63%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (3.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (3.63%) PKI
7 14 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.37%) Cyber Defence
8 13 (3.37%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.85%) Blog
10 8 (2.07%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.81%) Cloud Security Posture
11 7 (1.81%) Cyber Security Posture
11 7 (1.81%) Freedom of Information
11 7 (1.81%) Freedom of Information Act
12 6 (1.55%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
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
1 232 (60.10%) Cybersecurity
2 171 (44.30%) Information Security
3 121 (31.35%) Risk Management
4 96 (24.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 95 (24.61%) Incident Response
6 88 (22.80%) Vulnerability Management
7 87 (22.54%) Agile
8 86 (22.28%) Cloud Security
9 84 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (21.76%) Roadmaps
10 80 (20.73%) Disaster Recovery
11 76 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 66 (17.10%) Identity Access Management
13 64 (16.58%) SIEM
14 63 (16.32%) Business Continuity
14 63 (16.32%) Programme Delivery
15 61 (15.80%) DevOps
16 57 (14.77%) ITIL
17 54 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
18 53 (13.73%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 63 (16.32%) PowerShell
2 30 (7.77%) Bash
3 28 (7.25%) T-SQL
4 23 (5.96%) Python
5 16 (4.15%) SQL
6 8 (2.07%) Bicep
7 2 (0.52%) Java
7 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.26%) Go
8 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 174 (45.08%) CISSP
2 158 (40.93%) CISM
3 74 (19.17%) Security Cleared
4 66 (17.10%) Degree
5 62 (16.06%) SC Cleared
6 48 (12.44%) CISA
7 43 (11.14%) CRISC
8 29 (7.51%) ITIL Certification
9 26 (6.74%) SANS
10 23 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (5.44%) DV Cleared
12 19 (4.92%) ISACA
13 16 (4.15%) FFIEC
14 15 (3.89%) CEH
14 15 (3.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 14 (3.63%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (3.37%) CGEIT
16 13 (3.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 12 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
17 12 (3.11%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (69.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 99 (25.65%) GDPR
3 64 (16.58%) NCSC
4 62 (16.06%) GRC
5 57 (14.77%) PCI DSS
6 47 (12.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 39 (10.10%) ISO 22301
8 31 (8.03%) COBIT
9 25 (6.48%) SOC 2
10 21 (5.44%) NIST 800
11 19 (4.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 18 (4.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (4.40%) JSP 440
14 9 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 9 (2.33%) SOC 1
15 8 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 7 (1.81%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
18 5 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 5 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 46 (11.92%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.37%) Docker
3 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.85%) Terraform
3 10 (2.59%) CASB
3 10 (2.59%) FortiGate
4 9 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.07%) RSA Archer
6 7 (1.81%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (1.55%) Ansible
8 4 (1.04%) SCCM
9 1 (0.26%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.26%) Nessus
9 1 (0.26%) Nmap
9 1 (0.26%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.26%) OpenView
9 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (19.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.70%) Google
3 17 (4.40%) Palo Alto
4 16 (4.15%) Cisco
5 13 (3.37%) OpenAI
6 12 (3.11%) VMware
7 9 (2.33%) Commvault
7 9 (2.33%) Splunk
8 8 (2.07%) Qualys
9 7 (1.81%) Tanium
10 6 (1.55%) Okta
10 6 (1.55%) Oracle
11 5 (1.30%) ForgeRock
12 4 (1.04%) Sophos
12 4 (1.04%) Tenable
12 4 (1.04%) Thales
13 3 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.78%) Forcepoint
13 3 (0.78%) New Relic
13 3 (0.78%) Zerto