Which roles ask for NIST at tech companies · 30 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
30 roles counted that list NIST, one per company, title and level; 90 postings in the window.
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In short
NIST: listed in 30 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 16 and preferred in 14. The largest group is security engineer roles: 15 of 30. Each role counts once, however many job boards post it.
- Required
- 16 of 30
- Of the roles that list NIST
- Preferred
- 14 of 30
- Of the roles that list NIST
- Largest group
- 15 of 30
- Security engineer
Roles that ask for NIST
Roles listing NIST, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Security engineer | 15 | 15 of 126 |
| Software engineer | 5 | 5 of 719 |
| DevOps engineer | 4 | 4 of 58 |
| Software architect | 4 | 4 of 32 |
| Forward deployed engineer | 2 | 2 of 63 |
Companies that ask for it most
- CACI International Inc2 roles
- Peraton2 roles
- Valiant Solutions2 roles
- A-LIGN1 role
- Anthropic1 role
- Drata1 role
- Intuition Staffing1 role
- Lumen Technologies1 role
- ServiceNow1 role
- Zscaler1 role
Asked alongside
Out of the 30 NIST roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Cybersecurity | 15 of 30 |
| Python | 15 of 30 |
| AWS | 13 of 30 |
| Azure | 12 of 30 |
| Infrastructure as Code | 12 of 30 |
| Terraform | 12 of 30 |
| Identity and Access Management | 11 of 30 |
| CI/CD | 10 of 30 |
| Docker | 9 of 30 |
| GCP | 9 of 30 |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| DevSecOps | 6 of 30 |
| FedRAMP | 6 of 30 |
| AI | 5 of 30 |
| CI/CD | 5 of 30 |
| Cybersecurity | 4 of 30 |
| Incident Response | 4 of 30 |
| Threat Modeling | 4 of 30 |
| AWS | 3 of 30 |
| Amazon EKS | 3 of 30 |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 3 of 30 |
Experience
Of the 19 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 19 of 19
- 2+ years
- 19 of 19
- 3+ years
- 19 of 19
- 5+ years
- 17 of 19
- 8+ years
- 2 of 19
- 10+ years
- 0 of 19
Degree
Of the 21 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 4 of 21
- Required, or experience instead
- 7 of 21
- Preferred
- 1 of 21
- Not mentioned
- 9 of 21
Pay and remote work
Of the 30 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 19 of 30
- Remote roles
- 21 of 30
How we count: 30 roles from 27 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology