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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 288 448
Rank change year-on-year -20 +160 -97
Permanent jobs citing NIST 307 468 499
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.91% 1.15% 0.70%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.14% 7.92% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 261 393 406
10th Percentile £40,250 £46,650 £42,625
25th Percentile £55,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +3.70% +3.02%
75th Percentile £84,919 £85,000 £83,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -3.57% +1.82% +5.77%

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 4,299 5,906 11,455
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.72% 14.55% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,237 4,005 6,131
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 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +6.67%
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% +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 20 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 (4.23%) IIS
2 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 113 (36.81%) Azure
2 81 (26.38%) AWS
3 37 (12.05%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (6.51%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (5.86%) SaaS
6 17 (5.54%) Azure Sentinel
6 17 (5.54%) Microsoft Purview
7 16 (5.21%) IaaS
7 16 (5.21%) PaaS
8 14 (4.56%) Entra ID
9 13 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (3.58%) GCP
11 10 (3.26%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.26%) Serverless
12 6 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.95%) Azure Service Fabric
12 6 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 79 (25.73%) Firewall
2 56 (18.24%) WAN
3 54 (17.59%) Network Security
4 35 (11.40%) SD-WAN
5 21 (6.84%) TCP/IP
6 19 (6.19%) LAN
7 14 (4.56%) Wireshark
8 10 (3.26%) Wireless
9 9 (2.93%) VPN
10 6 (1.95%) Internet
11 5 (1.63%) DNS
11 5 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.65%) DMZ
13 2 (0.65%) Modbus
13 2 (0.65%) VLAN
13 2 (0.65%) VoIP
14 1 (0.33%) DHCP
14 1 (0.33%) SAN
14 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (1.63%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.65%) Power BI
4 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (4.89%) GitLab
2 9 (2.93%) JIRA
3 3 (0.98%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.98%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.98%) sqlmap
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 100 (32.57%) Finance
2 64 (20.85%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.17%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.84%) Retail
5 20 (6.51%) Law
6 19 (6.19%) Aerospace
7 13 (4.23%) Legal
8 11 (3.58%) Military
8 11 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.26%) Aviation
9 10 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.26%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.28%) Banking
11 6 (1.95%) Marketing
11 6 (1.95%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.63%) Automotive
13 3 (0.98%) Games
13 3 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.98%) Police
Job Titles
1 58 (18.89%) Analyst
2 57 (18.57%) Architect
3 55 (17.92%) Senior
4 54 (17.59%) Security Engineer
5 52 (16.94%) Security Architect
6 49 (15.96%) Lead
7 45 (14.66%) Security Analyst
8 37 (12.05%) Consultant
9 32 (10.42%) Security Consultant
10 27 (8.79%) Lead Architect
10 27 (8.79%) Lead Security Architect
11 23 (7.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 22 (7.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 19 (6.19%) Information Analyst
13 19 (6.19%) Information Security Analyst
14 15 (4.89%) Security Manager
15 14 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (4.56%) Senior Consultant
15 14 (4.56%) Senior Security Consultant
16 13 (4.23%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.61%) REST
1 8 (2.61%) SOAP
1 8 (2.61%) Web Services
2 4 (1.30%) Kafka
3 3 (0.98%) AWS SAM
3 3 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.65%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 94 (30.62%) Management Information System
2 35 (11.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 23 (7.49%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (6.19%) Security Operations Centre
5 17 (5.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 15 (4.89%) Security Posture
7 14 (4.56%) CESG
7 14 (4.56%) Operational Technology
8 12 (3.91%) Private Cloud
8 12 (3.91%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.58%) Onboarding
10 10 (3.26%) Cyber Defence
11 8 (2.61%) Cyberattack
11 8 (2.61%) Data Centre
12 7 (2.28%) PMI
12 7 (2.28%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.95%) IoT
13 6 (1.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 3 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (12.70%) Windows
2 17 (5.54%) Linux
3 13 (4.23%) Android
3 13 (4.23%) Apple iOS
4 11 (3.58%) Unix
5 10 (3.26%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.95%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.30%) CentOS
7 4 (1.30%) Solaris
7 4 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.30%) 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 (0.33%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (60.26%) Cybersecurity
2 181 (58.96%) Information Security
3 86 (28.01%) Risk Management
4 83 (27.04%) Security Architecture
5 77 (25.08%) SIEM
6 66 (21.50%) Cloud Security
7 61 (19.87%) OWASP
8 59 (19.22%) Application Security
9 53 (17.26%) Security Operations
10 51 (16.61%) Incident Response
11 45 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (13.68%) Security Management
13 41 (13.36%) DevOps
13 41 (13.36%) Secure Coding
14 39 (12.70%) Coaching
15 38 (12.38%) Mentoring
16 37 (12.05%) Vulnerability Management
16 37 (12.05%) Zero Trust
17 36 (11.73%) Identity Access Management
18 35 (11.40%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (9.45%) Python
2 22 (7.17%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.93%) SQL
4 6 (1.95%) Bash
5 4 (1.30%) C++
6 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 149 (48.53%) CISSP
2 97 (31.60%) CISM
3 65 (21.17%) Cisco Certification
4 64 (20.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 63 (20.52%) CCSP
6 49 (15.96%) AWS Certification
7 44 (14.33%) Azure Certification
8 40 (13.03%) Degree
9 39 (12.70%) CCSK
10 37 (12.05%) Security Cleared
11 29 (9.45%) CEH
12 27 (8.79%) CISA
13 23 (7.49%) SANS
14 18 (5.86%) CRISC
15 17 (5.54%) SC Cleared
16 16 (5.21%) GIAC
17 13 (4.23%) CISMP
17 13 (4.23%) Master's Degree
17 13 (4.23%) OSCP
17 13 (4.23%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (48.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (18.89%) PCI DSS
3 50 (16.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 40 (13.03%) NCSC
5 38 (12.38%) GRC
6 27 (8.79%) GDPR
6 27 (8.79%) NIST 800
7 19 (6.19%) COBIT
8 18 (5.86%) JSP 440
9 17 (5.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 15 (4.89%) SOC 2
11 14 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 12 (3.91%) RMADS
13 11 (3.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 10 (3.26%) ISO 31000
15 7 (2.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (1.95%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (1.95%) Web Application Security Consortium
17 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 4 (1.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 36 (11.73%) Docker
2 15 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) Snort
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (12.70%) Single Sign-On
2 36 (11.73%) Kubernetes
3 16 (5.21%) Terraform
4 14 (4.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (4.23%) Nmap
6 8 (2.61%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 4 (1.30%) QRadar
8 2 (0.65%) Nessus
9 1 (0.33%) Ansible
9 1 (0.33%) CASB
9 1 (0.33%) Packer
9 1 (0.33%) SCOM
9 1 (0.33%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.42%) Splunk
3 20 (6.51%) Qualys
4 15 (4.89%) Rapid7
5 13 (4.23%) Thycotic
6 12 (3.91%) Cisco
7 10 (3.26%) Fortinet
7 10 (3.26%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.28%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (2.28%) Symantec
8 7 (2.28%) Zscaler
9 6 (1.95%) Blue Coat
9 6 (1.95%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.95%) Netskope
9 6 (1.95%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.63%) Oracle
11 4 (1.30%) IBM
11 4 (1.30%) Intel
11 4 (1.30%) Tripwire
11 4 (1.30%) VMware