NCSC Contracts in London

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for NCSC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NCSC over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 381 554
Rank change year-on-year +31 +173 -117
Contract jobs citing NCSC 43 106 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.42% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.76% 3.13% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 80 41
10th Percentile £450 £498 £450
25th Percentile £490 £606 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £738 £828 £688
90th Percentile £739 £850 £705
England median daily rate £619 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £81.71 £73.99 £68.58
% change year-on-year +10.43% +7.88% +17.88%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

NCSC is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,444 3,392 4,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.96% 13.34% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,722 2,466 3,472
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +9.89%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £656
90th Percentile £800 £798 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 38 84
10th Percentile £13.29 £19.33 £20.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.24 £25.11
Median hourly rate £24.18 £26.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -41.01% +122.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.81 £49.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £80.75 £68.38
England median hourly rate £23.80 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -44.00% +54.55% +33.92%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing NCSC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in London

NCSC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NCSC in London.

Daily rate trend for NCSC in London

NCSC
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NCSC in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NCSC in London

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +26 4 £450 -33.33% 1
NCSC
England

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (4.65%) Confluence
1 2 (4.65%) Jupyter
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (41.86%) AWS
2 10 (23.26%) Azure
3 3 (6.98%) GitHub
4 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.33%) Serverless
5 1 (2.33%) Smartsheet
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (41.86%) Network Security
2 9 (20.93%) Firewall
3 4 (9.30%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (9.30%) WAN
3 4 (9.30%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (4.65%) BGP
4 2 (4.65%) DHCP
4 2 (4.65%) DMVPN
4 2 (4.65%) DNS
4 2 (4.65%) HSRP
4 2 (4.65%) Internet
4 2 (4.65%) LAN
4 2 (4.65%) MPLS
4 2 (4.65%) OSPF
4 2 (4.65%) SD-WAN
4 2 (4.65%) SNMP
4 2 (4.65%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (4.65%) SSL
4 2 (4.65%) VLAN
4 2 (4.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (4.65%) Big Data
2 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) CircleCI
1 2 (4.65%) Git
1 2 (4.65%) JIRA
1 2 (4.65%) RStudio
2 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (27.91%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Architect
2 16 (37.21%) Security Architect
3 7 (16.28%) Consultant
3 7 (16.28%) Security Consultant
4 4 (9.30%) Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Risk Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 3 (6.98%) Security Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Security Risk Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Senior
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Architect
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Principal Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Principal Security Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Project Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) JSON
1 4 (9.30%) XML
2 2 (4.65%) Jinja
2 2 (4.65%) JSON Schema
2 2 (4.65%) KML
2 2 (4.65%) NETCONF
2 2 (4.65%) Regular Expression
2 2 (4.65%) RESTful
2 2 (4.65%) XML Schema
2 2 (4.65%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Security Posture
2 3 (6.98%) NHS
2 3 (6.98%) PKI
3 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.65%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.65%) SCADA
4 1 (2.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.33%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (2.33%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (2.33%) Insider Threat
4 1 (2.33%) IoT
4 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Windows
2 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (41.86%) Cybersecurity
1 18 (41.86%) Risk Assessment
1 18 (41.86%) Security Management
2 17 (39.53%) Information Security
3 16 (37.21%) Information Assurance
4 15 (34.88%) Information Security Management
5 14 (32.56%) Architectural Patterns
5 14 (32.56%) Security Architecture
6 10 (23.26%) SABSA
6 10 (23.26%) TOGAF
7 7 (16.28%) Cloud Security
7 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (13.95%) Risk Analysis
8 6 (13.95%) Risk Management
9 5 (11.63%) Threat Modelling
10 4 (9.30%) Containerisation
10 4 (9.30%) Data Protection
10 4 (9.30%) Incident Response
10 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (9.30%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.65%) Python
1 2 (4.65%) R
2 1 (2.33%) Java
2 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (44.19%) Security Cleared
2 15 (34.88%) SC Cleared
3 13 (30.23%) CISM
3 13 (30.23%) CISSP
4 11 (25.58%) CISA
5 8 (18.60%) CREST Certified
5 8 (18.60%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.65%) CRISC
8 1 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (2.33%) CCNA
8 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (46.51%) NIST
2 15 (34.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (13.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (11.63%) COBIT
4 5 (11.63%) GRC
5 4 (9.30%) ISO 31000
6 3 (6.98%) GPG13
6 3 (6.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (4.65%) GDPR
7 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
8 1 (2.33%) ISA99
8 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.33%) Firmware
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Terraform
2 4 (9.30%) Ansible
2 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) CASB
3 2 (4.65%) SCCM
3 2 (4.65%) SCOrch
3 2 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
1 5 (11.63%) Palo Alto
2 2 (4.65%) Aruba
2 2 (4.65%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.65%) Cisco
2 2 (4.65%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (4.65%) Imperva
2 2 (4.65%) Juniper
2 2 (4.65%) Meraki
2 2 (4.65%) Netskope
3 1 (2.33%) Apple
3 1 (2.33%) Cadence
3 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.33%) ForeScout
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle
3 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.33%) VMware