NIST Jobs with Work from Home Options

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for NIST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NIST over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 282 432
Rank change year-on-year -42 +150 -84
Permanent jobs citing NIST 309 483 497
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.91% 1.17% 0.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.19% 8.01% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 264 404 411
10th Percentile £40,250 £46,650 £42,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,750 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% +3.70% +2.20%
75th Percentile £84,042 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £67,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.29% +3.70% +3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

NIST is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,296 6,027 10,924
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.71% 14.61% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,247 4,088 6,023
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,140
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +8.81% +5.03%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

NIST
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NIST trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing NIST.

NIST salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

NIST
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing NIST over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

NIST salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (4.21%) IIS
2 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 114 (36.89%) Azure
2 82 (26.54%) AWS
3 39 (12.62%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (6.47%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (5.83%) Azure Sentinel
5 18 (5.83%) Microsoft Purview
5 18 (5.83%) SaaS
6 17 (5.50%) IaaS
6 17 (5.50%) PaaS
7 14 (4.53%) Entra ID
8 13 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.56%) GCP
10 10 (3.24%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.24%) Serverless
11 6 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.94%) Azure Service Fabric
11 6 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 78 (25.24%) Firewall
2 56 (18.12%) WAN
3 53 (17.15%) Network Security
4 35 (11.33%) SD-WAN
5 21 (6.80%) TCP/IP
6 19 (6.15%) LAN
7 14 (4.53%) Wireshark
8 10 (3.24%) Wireless
9 9 (2.91%) VPN
10 6 (1.94%) Internet
11 5 (1.62%) DNS
11 5 (1.62%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.65%) DMZ
13 2 (0.65%) Modbus
13 2 (0.65%) VLAN
13 2 (0.65%) VoIP
14 1 (0.32%) DHCP
14 1 (0.32%) SAN
14 1 (0.32%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (1.62%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.65%) Power BI
4 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (4.85%) GitLab
2 9 (2.91%) JIRA
3 3 (0.97%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.97%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.97%) sqlmap
4 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 98 (31.72%) Finance
2 64 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.44%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.80%) Retail
5 19 (6.15%) Aerospace
5 19 (6.15%) Law
6 13 (4.21%) Legal
7 11 (3.56%) Military
7 11 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.24%) Aviation
9 9 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.91%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.27%) Banking
11 6 (1.94%) Marketing
11 6 (1.94%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.62%) Automotive
13 3 (0.97%) Games
13 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (19.09%) Analyst
2 57 (18.45%) Architect
3 56 (18.12%) Senior
4 55 (17.80%) Security Engineer
5 52 (16.83%) Security Architect
6 49 (15.86%) Lead
7 46 (14.89%) Security Analyst
8 38 (12.30%) Consultant
9 33 (10.68%) Security Consultant
10 27 (8.74%) Lead Architect
10 27 (8.74%) Lead Security Architect
11 25 (8.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 22 (7.12%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 18 (5.83%) Information Analyst
13 18 (5.83%) Information Security Analyst
14 16 (5.18%) Security Manager
15 14 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (4.53%) Senior Consultant
15 14 (4.53%) Senior Security Consultant
16 13 (4.21%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.59%) REST
1 8 (2.59%) SOAP
1 8 (2.59%) Web Services
2 4 (1.29%) Kafka
3 3 (0.97%) AWS SAM
3 3 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.65%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 93 (30.10%) Management Information System
2 35 (11.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 24 (7.77%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (6.15%) Security Operations Centre
5 17 (5.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 15 (4.85%) Security Posture
7 14 (4.53%) CESG
8 13 (4.21%) Operational Technology
9 12 (3.88%) Private Cloud
9 12 (3.88%) Product Ownership
10 11 (3.56%) Onboarding
11 10 (3.24%) Cyber Defence
12 8 (2.59%) Cyberattack
12 8 (2.59%) Data Centre
13 7 (2.27%) PMI
13 7 (2.27%) Public Cloud
13 7 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
15 5 (1.62%) IoT
16 3 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (12.62%) Windows
2 17 (5.50%) Linux
3 13 (4.21%) Android
3 13 (4.21%) Apple iOS
4 11 (3.56%) Unix
5 10 (3.24%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.94%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.29%) CentOS
7 4 (1.29%) Solaris
7 4 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.29%) zOS
8 2 (0.65%) AIX
8 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (60.84%) Cybersecurity
2 181 (58.58%) Information Security
3 87 (28.16%) Risk Management
4 83 (26.86%) Security Architecture
5 77 (24.92%) SIEM
6 68 (22.01%) Cloud Security
7 61 (19.74%) OWASP
8 60 (19.42%) Application Security
9 54 (17.48%) Security Operations
10 52 (16.83%) Incident Response
11 46 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (13.59%) Security Management
13 41 (13.27%) DevOps
13 41 (13.27%) Secure Coding
14 39 (12.62%) Coaching
15 38 (12.30%) Mentoring
16 37 (11.97%) Vulnerability Management
16 37 (11.97%) Zero Trust
17 35 (11.33%) Identity Access Management
17 35 (11.33%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (9.39%) Python
2 23 (7.44%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.91%) SQL
4 6 (1.94%) Bash
5 4 (1.29%) C++
6 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 150 (48.54%) CISSP
2 97 (31.39%) CISM
3 65 (21.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 65 (21.04%) Cisco Certification
4 64 (20.71%) CCSP
5 49 (15.86%) AWS Certification
6 46 (14.89%) Azure Certification
7 39 (12.62%) CCSK
7 39 (12.62%) Degree
8 37 (11.97%) Security Cleared
9 29 (9.39%) CEH
10 26 (8.41%) CISA
11 22 (7.12%) SANS
12 18 (5.83%) CRISC
13 17 (5.50%) SC Cleared
14 16 (5.18%) GIAC
15 13 (4.21%) CISMP
15 13 (4.21%) Master's Degree
15 13 (4.21%) OSCP
15 13 (4.21%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (48.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 57 (18.45%) PCI DSS
3 50 (16.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 40 (12.94%) NCSC
5 36 (11.65%) GRC
6 28 (9.06%) GDPR
6 28 (9.06%) NIST 800
7 19 (6.15%) COBIT
8 18 (5.83%) JSP 440
9 17 (5.50%) SOC 2
10 16 (5.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 12 (3.88%) RMADS
13 11 (3.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 10 (3.24%) ISO 31000
15 6 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (1.94%) Web Application Security Consortium
16 5 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 3 (0.97%) ITGC
System Software
1 36 (11.65%) Docker
2 14 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Snort
5 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (12.30%) Single Sign-On
2 36 (11.65%) Kubernetes
3 16 (5.18%) Terraform
4 14 (4.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (4.21%) Nmap
6 8 (2.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 4 (1.29%) QRadar
8 2 (0.65%) Nessus
9 1 (0.32%) Ansible
9 1 (0.32%) CASB
9 1 (0.32%) Packer
9 1 (0.32%) SCOM
9 1 (0.32%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.36%) Splunk
3 20 (6.47%) Qualys
4 15 (4.85%) Rapid7
5 13 (4.21%) Thycotic
6 12 (3.88%) Cisco
7 10 (3.24%) Fortinet
7 10 (3.24%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (2.27%) Symantec
9 6 (1.94%) Blue Coat
9 6 (1.94%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.94%) Netskope
9 6 (1.94%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.94%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.62%) Oracle
11 4 (1.29%) IBM
11 4 (1.29%) Intel
11 4 (1.29%) Tripwire
11 4 (1.29%) VMware