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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 241 266
Rank change year-on-year +143 +25 +23
Permanent jobs citing NIST 420 210 306
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.62% 1.32% 1.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.12% 7.64% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 188 135 268
10th Percentile £48,750 £39,412 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £63,800
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +1.88% -8.86%
75th Percentile £91,250 £81,625 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £71,000 £71,991 £69,000
% change year-on-year -1.38% +4.33% -1.43%

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 2,777 2,750 3,851
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.34% 17.32% 13.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,630 1,497 3,015
10th Percentile £33,201 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.94% -0.74%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,500 £92,950
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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

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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

NIST
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NIST over the 6 months to 8 February 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 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 156 (37.14%) Azure
2 68 (16.19%) Entra ID
3 55 (13.10%) Google Workspace
4 51 (12.14%) AWS
5 23 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (4.29%) SaaS
7 16 (3.81%) GCP
7 16 (3.81%) Nutanix
8 11 (2.62%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (1.90%) PaaS
10 7 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.19%) IaaS
12 5 (1.19%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 3 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.48%) dbt
15 1 (0.24%) AWS Direct Connect
15 1 (0.24%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (13.81%) Broadband
2 27 (6.43%) Firewall
2 27 (6.43%) Network Security
3 18 (4.29%) CHAP
4 15 (3.57%) VPN
5 8 (1.90%) Wireshark
6 7 (1.67%) DMZ
7 6 (1.43%) DNS
7 6 (1.43%) SSL
8 5 (1.19%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.19%) VoIP
8 5 (1.19%) WAN
9 4 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.95%) LAN
9 4 (0.95%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.71%) SCCP
11 1 (0.24%) EIGRP
11 1 (0.24%) Modbus
11 1 (0.24%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.19%) Power BI
2 4 (0.95%) Tableau
3 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Git
1 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.24%) JIRA
General
1 145 (34.52%) Finance
2 136 (32.38%) Social Skills
3 74 (17.62%) Banking
4 68 (16.19%) Organisational Skills
5 41 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 36 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (8.10%) Games
8 32 (7.62%) Telecoms
9 28 (6.67%) Manufacturing
10 27 (6.43%) Electronics
10 27 (6.43%) Marketing
11 25 (5.95%) Financial Institution
12 22 (5.24%) Law
13 19 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (4.05%) Legal
14 17 (4.05%) Retail
15 6 (1.43%) Aviation
16 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.71%) Back Office
18 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (19.76%) Lead
2 51 (12.14%) Senior
3 41 (9.76%) Consultant
4 40 (9.52%) Analyst
5 37 (8.81%) Security Consultant
6 28 (6.67%) Security Analyst
7 24 (5.71%) Architect
8 22 (5.24%) Developer
8 22 (5.24%) IAM Developer
9 21 (5.00%) Security Manager
10 19 (4.52%) Auditor
10 19 (4.52%) Security Auditor
11 18 (4.29%) Internal Auditor
11 18 (4.29%) Security Specialist
12 17 (4.05%) Security Architect
13 16 (3.81%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (3.57%) Security Engineer
15 14 (3.33%) Senior Developer
16 12 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 11 (2.62%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (13.57%) GraphQL
1 57 (13.57%) REST
1 57 (13.57%) SOAP
2 56 (13.33%) OAuth
2 56 (13.33%) OpenID
2 56 (13.33%) SAML
3 55 (13.10%) LDAP
4 26 (6.19%) SAP CAF
5 6 (1.43%) React
5 6 (1.43%) Spring Boot
6 4 (0.95%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.71%) JSON
7 3 (0.71%) YAML
8 2 (0.48%) Django
8 2 (0.48%) SLSA
9 1 (0.24%) EDI
9 1 (0.24%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.24%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 142 (33.81%) Cyber Threat
2 87 (20.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 78 (18.57%) Operational Technology
3 78 (18.57%) Security Operations Centre
4 59 (14.05%) Cyberattack
5 48 (11.43%) Security Posture
6 37 (8.81%) Management Information System
7 23 (5.48%) Cloud Native
8 19 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (3.33%) PKI
10 13 (3.10%) Cyber Defence
11 10 (2.38%) Blockchain
12 9 (2.14%) Cloud Security Posture
12 9 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (2.14%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.67%) Blog
14 6 (1.43%) Onboarding
15 4 (0.95%) Cyber Security Posture
15 4 (0.95%) Data Centre
15 4 (0.95%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.81%) Windows
2 12 (2.86%) Linux
3 5 (1.19%) Unix
4 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (54.52%) Cybersecurity
2 227 (54.05%) Risk Management
3 185 (44.05%) Roadmaps
4 148 (35.24%) Mentoring
5 143 (34.05%) Vulnerability Management
6 138 (32.86%) Information Security
7 108 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 104 (24.76%) Security Operations
9 92 (21.90%) Threat Intelligence
10 86 (20.48%) Coaching
10 86 (20.48%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 80 (19.05%) ITIL
12 78 (18.57%) SABSA
13 77 (18.33%) Risk Assessment
13 77 (18.33%) Technology Roadmap
14 75 (17.86%) Incident Response
15 74 (17.62%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
16 72 (17.14%) Cyber Intelligence
17 71 (16.90%) Business Strategy
18 68 (16.19%) Change Advisory Board
Programming Languages
1 94 (22.38%) PowerShell
2 59 (14.05%) Bash
3 55 (13.10%) T-SQL
4 31 (7.38%) SQL
5 23 (5.48%) Python
6 7 (1.67%) Bicep
6 7 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.43%) Java
8 1 (0.24%) C
8 1 (0.24%) C++
Qualifications
1 170 (40.48%) CISSP
2 109 (25.95%) CISM
3 85 (20.24%) CISA
4 67 (15.95%) CRISC
5 65 (15.48%) Security Cleared
6 54 (12.86%) SC Cleared
7 43 (10.24%) Degree
8 32 (7.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 30 (7.14%) SANS
10 22 (5.24%) CEH
11 20 (4.76%) CGEIT
12 19 (4.52%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (4.52%) FFIEC
13 18 (4.29%) Azure Certification
14 17 (4.05%) AWS Certification
15 15 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
15 15 (3.57%) DV Cleared
16 13 (3.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 12 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
18 10 (2.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (64.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 86 (20.48%) NCSC
3 79 (18.81%) PCI DSS
4 69 (16.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 67 (15.95%) GDPR
5 67 (15.95%) GRC
6 31 (7.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 29 (6.90%) COBIT
8 19 (4.52%) NIST 800
9 18 (4.29%) SOC 2
10 13 (3.10%) JSP 440
11 12 (2.86%) ISO 22301
12 9 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 8 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (1.19%) SLA
15 4 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.95%) Data Quality
15 4 (0.95%) ITGC
16 2 (0.48%) SOC 1
System Software
1 63 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.90%) Docker
2 8 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.95%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (5.24%) Terraform
2 11 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.14%) RSA Archer
5 7 (1.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 5 (1.19%) Ansible
7 3 (0.71%) QRadar
7 3 (0.71%) SCCM
8 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.48%) Suricata
8 2 (0.48%) WSUS
9 1 (0.24%) Nessus
9 1 (0.24%) Nmap
Vendors
1 40 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.90%) SAP
3 22 (5.24%) VMware
4 16 (3.81%) Commvault
5 5 (1.19%) Cisco
5 5 (1.19%) Google
5 5 (1.19%) Splunk
6 3 (0.71%) CyberArk
6 3 (0.71%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.71%) Tenable
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle
7 2 (0.48%) Sage
7 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.48%) Xero
8 1 (0.24%) AlienVault
8 1 (0.24%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.24%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.24%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.24%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.24%) Qualys