NIST Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 193 330
Rank change year-on-year +9 +137 +55
Contract jobs citing NIST 166 299 321
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.13% 1.25% 0.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.15% 10.03% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 212 238
10th Percentile £498 £500 £468
25th Percentile £538 £563 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £747
90th Percentile £825 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £42.00
25th Percentile - - £45.00
Median hourly rate - £39.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -20.80% -21.88%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.15 £71.08
% change year-on-year +5.23% -9.76% +39.65%

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 contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,036 2,982 5,763
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.80% 12.49% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,167 4,130
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £521 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +1.56% +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £613
90th Percentile £750 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 71 128
10th Percentile £12.23 £17.50 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.94 £19.44
Median hourly rate £24.50 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -21.35% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £58.38 £56.60
90th Percentile £66.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

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

NIST
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

NIST daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NIST
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing NIST over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

NIST daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NIST
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

NIST hourly rate 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 7 (4.22%) Confluence
2 6 (3.61%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.41%) Apache Solr
3 4 (2.41%) nginx
4 2 (1.20%) IIS
4 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.60%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.69%) AWS
2 35 (21.08%) Azure
3 11 (6.63%) GCP
4 10 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.02%) SaaS
5 8 (4.82%) GitHub
6 6 (3.61%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.41%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.81%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.20%) IaaS
9 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.60%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.60%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (19.28%) Network Security
2 18 (10.84%) Firewall
3 10 (6.02%) TCP/IP
4 9 (5.42%) DNS
4 9 (5.42%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (2.41%) HTTPS
5 4 (2.41%) IPsec
5 4 (2.41%) tcpdump
5 4 (2.41%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.81%) Wireless
7 1 (0.60%) DHCP
7 1 (0.60%) HTTP
7 1 (0.60%) Internet
7 1 (0.60%) SMTP
7 1 (0.60%) VLAN
7 1 (0.60%) VPN
7 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.01%) MySQL
1 5 (3.01%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.41%) Apache Hive
2 4 (2.41%) Couchbase
2 4 (2.41%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.41%) Tableau
3 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.60%) Big Data
3 1 (0.60%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.60%) Redis
3 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (6.02%) JIRA
2 6 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.41%) IDA Disassembler
4 2 (1.20%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.20%) Git
4 2 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) Darcs
5 1 (0.60%) GitLab
5 1 (0.60%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.60%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.60%) RStudio
5 1 (0.60%) Travis CI
General
1 47 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 37 (22.29%) Finance
3 23 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.83%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.61%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.01%) Banking
6 5 (3.01%) Legal
6 5 (3.01%) Retail
7 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Automotive
8 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.60%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (31.33%) Architect
2 40 (24.10%) Security Architect
3 31 (18.67%) Consultant
4 17 (10.24%) Security Consultant
5 16 (9.64%) Analyst
5 16 (9.64%) Security Manager
6 14 (8.43%) Security Engineer
7 12 (7.23%) Technical Architect
8 10 (6.02%) Lead
9 9 (5.42%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 9 (5.42%) Security Analyst
10 8 (4.82%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 8 (4.82%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 7 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.22%) Security Technical Consultant
11 7 (4.22%) Senior
11 7 (4.22%) Technical Consultant
11 7 (4.22%) Technical Security Consultant
12 6 (3.61%) Information Security Consultant
12 6 (3.61%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (2.41%) JSON
2 4 (2.41%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (2.41%) OLE
2 4 (2.41%) YAML
3 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.60%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.60%) CSS
3 1 (0.60%) EDI
3 1 (0.60%) HTML
3 1 (0.60%) React
3 1 (0.60%) REST
3 1 (0.60%) RESTful
3 1 (0.60%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.60%) SAML
3 1 (0.60%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.25%) Management Information System
2 19 (11.45%) Cyber Threat
3 17 (10.24%) Security Posture
4 14 (8.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 10 (6.02%) Cloud Native
6 9 (5.42%) Cyber Defence
7 8 (4.82%) Operational Technology
7 8 (4.82%) Public Cloud
8 6 (3.61%) Mobile App
8 6 (3.61%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.41%) YARA
10 3 (1.81%) IoT
10 3 (1.81%) SCADA
11 2 (1.20%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.43%) Linux
2 12 (7.23%) Windows
3 4 (2.41%) CentOS
4 3 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (58.43%) Cybersecurity
2 72 (43.37%) Information Security
3 43 (25.90%) SIEM
4 41 (24.70%) Security Architecture
5 36 (21.69%) Risk Management
6 26 (15.66%) Incident Response
7 24 (14.46%) Cloud Security
7 24 (14.46%) Security Management
8 23 (13.86%) Use Case
9 22 (13.25%) Penetration Testing
10 20 (12.05%) Information Security Management
10 20 (12.05%) Vulnerability Management
11 19 (11.45%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 18 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (10.84%) Risk Assessment
12 18 (10.84%) Roadmaps
13 17 (10.24%) Data Protection
14 16 (9.64%) DevOps
14 16 (9.64%) Migration
14 16 (9.64%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.63%) Python
2 9 (5.42%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.41%) C++
3 4 (2.41%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.41%) PHP
4 2 (1.20%) Bicep
4 2 (1.20%) C#
4 2 (1.20%) Go
4 2 (1.20%) SQL
5 1 (0.60%) Bash
5 1 (0.60%) C
5 1 (0.60%) Java
5 1 (0.60%) R
5 1 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (27.71%) CISSP
2 43 (25.90%) Security Cleared
3 41 (24.70%) CISM
4 30 (18.07%) SC Cleared
5 25 (15.06%) CISA
6 20 (12.05%) DV Cleared
7 17 (10.24%) Degree
8 13 (7.83%) CREST Certified
9 10 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (5.42%) CEH
10 9 (5.42%) CRISC
10 9 (5.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (4.22%) GIAC
11 7 (4.22%) Master's Degree
12 5 (3.01%) CSSLP
12 5 (3.01%) GCIH
13 4 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (2.41%) CGEIT
13 4 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (2.41%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (54.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (16.87%) GDPR
3 19 (11.45%) NCSC
4 18 (10.84%) NIST 800
4 18 (10.84%) PCI DSS
5 13 (7.83%) GRC
6 12 (7.23%) COBIT
7 5 (3.01%) HIPAA
8 4 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (2.41%) QA
9 3 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.81%) GPG13
10 2 (1.20%) COSO
10 2 (1.20%) ISA99
10 2 (1.20%) ISAE 3402
10 2 (1.20%) ISO 22301
10 2 (1.20%) ITGC
10 2 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (4.82%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.61%) Snort
3 5 (3.01%) Docker
4 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (10.24%) Terraform
2 12 (7.23%) Kibana
3 10 (6.02%) logstash
4 9 (5.42%) Ansible
4 9 (5.42%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.41%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 2 (1.20%) Grafana
6 2 (1.20%) Nessus
6 2 (1.20%) Packer
6 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.60%) CASB
7 1 (0.60%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.60%) Puppet
7 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.83%) Splunk
3 9 (5.42%) Google
4 8 (4.82%) LogRhythm
5 5 (3.01%) Tanium
6 4 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.81%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.81%) IBM
8 2 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.20%) Cybereason
8 2 (1.20%) Okta
8 2 (1.20%) Oracle
8 2 (1.20%) Qualys
8 2 (1.20%) VMware
9 1 (0.60%) Darktrace
9 1 (0.60%) Netskope
9 1 (0.60%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.60%) SAP
9 1 (0.60%) Workday