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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 269 469
Rank change year-on-year -46 +200 -114
Permanent jobs citing NIST 304 470 493
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.86% 1.25% 0.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.98% 8.43% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 256 382 399
10th Percentile £40,250 £46,275 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,125 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +3.70% +2.20%
75th Percentile £84,919 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%

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 4,358 5,577 12,231
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.35% 14.78% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,239 3,780 6,227
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £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% +4.76%

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 9 June 2024.

NIST salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 (4.28%) IIS
2 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 109 (35.86%) Azure
2 85 (27.96%) AWS
3 30 (9.87%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (5.59%) SaaS
5 15 (4.93%) Azure Sentinel
5 15 (4.93%) Cloud Computing
6 14 (4.61%) IaaS
6 14 (4.61%) PaaS
7 13 (4.28%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (3.95%) Entra ID
8 12 (3.95%) GCP
9 11 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.29%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.29%) Serverless
11 6 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.97%) Azure Service Fabric
11 6 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 75 (24.67%) Firewall
2 56 (18.42%) Network Security
3 52 (17.11%) WAN
4 35 (11.51%) SD-WAN
5 19 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 17 (5.59%) Wireshark
7 15 (4.93%) LAN
8 8 (2.63%) Wireless
9 7 (2.30%) VPN
10 6 (1.97%) DNS
11 5 (1.64%) BGP
11 5 (1.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 5 (1.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (1.64%) OSPF
12 4 (1.32%) Internet
13 3 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (0.66%) DMZ
14 2 (0.66%) VLAN
14 2 (0.66%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (1.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.66%) Power BI
4 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (5.59%) GitLab
2 10 (3.29%) JIRA
3 3 (0.99%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.99%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.99%) sqlmap
4 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 103 (33.88%) Finance
2 61 (20.07%) Social Skills
3 24 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.24%) Law
5 21 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.91%) Retail
6 18 (5.92%) Aerospace
7 14 (4.61%) Legal
8 11 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.62%) Military
8 11 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.29%) Aviation
9 10 (3.29%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.30%) Banking
11 6 (1.97%) Marketing
11 6 (1.97%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.64%) Automotive
13 3 (0.99%) Games
13 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (19.41%) Senior
2 58 (19.08%) Architect
3 56 (18.42%) Analyst
4 55 (18.09%) Security Engineer
5 53 (17.43%) Security Architect
6 47 (15.46%) Lead
7 43 (14.14%) Security Analyst
8 34 (11.18%) Consultant
9 30 (9.87%) Security Consultant
10 27 (8.88%) Lead Architect
10 27 (8.88%) Lead Security Architect
11 24 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 20 (6.58%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 20 (6.58%) Information Analyst
12 20 (6.58%) Information Security Analyst
13 17 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (5.59%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
14 14 (4.61%) Senior Consultant
14 14 (4.61%) Senior Security Consultant
15 13 (4.28%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.63%) REST
1 8 (2.63%) SOAP
1 8 (2.63%) Web Services
2 4 (1.32%) Kafka
3 3 (0.99%) AWS SAM
3 3 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.66%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (30.26%) Management Information System
2 40 (13.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 20 (6.58%) Cyber Threat
4 18 (5.92%) Security Operations Centre
5 17 (5.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 16 (5.26%) Security Posture
7 14 (4.61%) CESG
7 14 (4.61%) Operational Technology
8 12 (3.95%) Private Cloud
8 12 (3.95%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.62%) Onboarding
10 10 (3.29%) Cyber Defence
11 8 (2.63%) Cyberattack
11 8 (2.63%) Data Centre
12 7 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (2.30%) PMI
12 7 (2.30%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.97%) IoT
13 6 (1.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 3 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.86%) Windows
2 17 (5.59%) Linux
3 11 (3.62%) Android
3 11 (3.62%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.96%) Unix
5 8 (2.63%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.97%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.32%) CentOS
7 4 (1.32%) Solaris
7 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.32%) zOS
8 2 (0.66%) AIX
8 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (59.54%) Cybersecurity
2 179 (58.88%) Information Security
3 83 (27.30%) Security Architecture
4 82 (26.97%) Risk Management
5 74 (24.34%) SIEM
6 63 (20.72%) OWASP
7 62 (20.39%) Cloud Security
8 56 (18.42%) Application Security
9 55 (18.09%) Incident Response
10 49 (16.12%) Security Operations
11 43 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (13.49%) Secure Coding
12 41 (13.49%) Security Management
13 39 (12.83%) Coaching
13 39 (12.83%) DevOps
14 36 (11.84%) Identity Management
14 36 (11.84%) Mentoring
14 36 (11.84%) Vulnerability Management
15 34 (11.18%) Information Security Management
15 34 (11.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 29 (9.54%) Python
2 19 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.96%) SQL
4 6 (1.97%) Bash
5 4 (1.32%) C++
6 1 (0.33%) Go
6 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 142 (46.71%) CISSP
2 98 (32.24%) CISM
3 58 (19.08%) Cisco Certification
4 57 (18.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 56 (18.42%) CCSP
6 49 (16.12%) AWS Certification
7 42 (13.82%) Azure Certification
8 39 (12.83%) CCSK
9 38 (12.50%) Degree
10 35 (11.51%) Security Cleared
11 31 (10.20%) CISA
12 27 (8.88%) CEH
13 21 (6.91%) SANS
14 18 (5.92%) CRISC
15 16 (5.26%) GIAC
16 15 (4.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 14 (4.61%) SC Cleared
18 13 (4.28%) CISMP
18 13 (4.28%) Master's Degree
18 13 (4.28%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (48.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (19.74%) PCI DSS
3 51 (16.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 39 (12.83%) GRC
5 38 (12.50%) NCSC
6 28 (9.21%) GDPR
7 27 (8.88%) NIST 800
8 19 (6.25%) COBIT
9 18 (5.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 16 (5.26%) JSP 440
11 14 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 13 (4.28%) SOC 2
13 11 (3.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (3.62%) RMADS
14 10 (3.29%) ISO 31000
15 8 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (1.97%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (1.97%) Web Application Security Consortium
17 5 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 4 (1.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 37 (12.17%) Docker
2 11 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.33%) Firmware
4 1 (0.33%) Snort
4 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (12.83%) Single Sign-On
2 37 (12.17%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.59%) Terraform
4 12 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (3.62%) Nmap
6 8 (2.63%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 4 (1.32%) QRadar
8 3 (0.99%) Ansible
9 2 (0.66%) Nessus
10 1 (0.33%) CASB
10 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.33%) Packer
10 1 (0.33%) SCOM
10 1 (0.33%) SCOrch
10 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (11.51%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.87%) Splunk
3 18 (5.92%) Qualys
4 13 (4.28%) Fortinet
4 13 (4.28%) Rapid7
5 11 (3.62%) Thycotic
6 10 (3.29%) Cisco
6 10 (3.29%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (1.64%) Oracle
7 5 (1.64%) Symantec
7 5 (1.64%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.32%) Blue Coat
8 4 (1.32%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.32%) IBM
8 4 (1.32%) Intel
8 4 (1.32%) Netskope
8 4 (1.32%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.32%) Tripwire
8 4 (1.32%) VMware