NIST 800 Contracts with Work from Home Options

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800 Series
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring NIST 800 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST 800 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 323 415 584
Rank change year-on-year +92 +169 -89
Contract jobs citing NIST 800 18 42 39
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.18% 0.089%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.88% 1.41% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 30
10th Percentile £525 £563 £500
25th Percentile £550 £600 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £680 £731
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -7.01% +6.36%
75th Percentile £693 £750 £770
90th Percentile £731 - £864
UK median daily rate £582 £650 £731
% change year-on-year -10.46% -11.11% +8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

NIST 800 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 800
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing NIST 800 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NIST 800 trend for jobs with a WFH option

NIST 800
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 800.

NIST 800 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NIST 800
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing NIST 800 over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

NIST 800 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NIST 800
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 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) IaaS
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Consultant
2 4 (22.22%) Risk Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Firewall Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Information Officer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) IT Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) IT Risk Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Information Security Officer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Threat Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 9 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 8 (44.44%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.56%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Information Security
2 14 (77.78%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 11 (61.11%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (55.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 10 (55.56%) SIEM
4 10 (55.56%) Threat Intelligence
5 8 (44.44%) Case Management
5 8 (44.44%) CRM
5 8 (44.44%) Incident Management
5 8 (44.44%) Incident Response
5 8 (44.44%) Mentoring
5 8 (44.44%) Protective Monitoring
5 8 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (44.44%) SOAR
5 8 (44.44%) Use Case
6 6 (33.33%) Risk Management
7 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
7 5 (27.78%) Impact Assessments
7 5 (27.78%) Information Security Management
7 5 (27.78%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) CISM
3 6 (33.33%) CISSP
4 5 (27.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (27.78%) Degree
4 5 (27.78%) Master's Degree
5 3 (16.67%) GIAC
6 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (11.11%) GCIH
6 2 (11.11%) GSEC
6 2 (11.11%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (11.11%) Server+ Certification
7 1 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (5.56%) CCSK
7 1 (5.56%) CISA
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (5.56%) CRISC
7 1 (5.56%) FFIEC
7 1 (5.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (100.00%) NIST
2 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (11.11%) GDPR
3 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
1 2 (11.11%) Snort
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) logstash
2 5 (27.78%) Kibana
3 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Tanium
3 2 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (11.11%) Cybereason
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk