NCSC Contracts with Work from Home Options

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring NCSC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NCSC 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 283 349 533
Rank change year-on-year +66 +184 -69
Contract jobs citing NCSC 58 108 90
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.45% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.85% 3.62% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 77 71
10th Percentile £525 £475 £420
25th Percentile £563 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £725 £825 £650
90th Percentile £738 £903 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £624
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.22% +18.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £60.92
25th Percentile - £51.37 £60.92
Median hourly rate - £55.32 £60.93
Median % change year-on-year - -9.20% -
75th Percentile - £59.28 £60.93
90th Percentile - - £60.93
UK median hourly rate £81.71 £74.99 £68.58
% change year-on-year +8.95% +9.35% +17.88%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

NCSC 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%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

NCSC trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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 NCSC.

NCSC daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

NCSC daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 NCSC.

NCSC hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 (12.07%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 37 (63.79%) AWS
2 27 (46.55%) Azure
3 11 (18.97%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (18.97%) GitHub
4 10 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (17.24%) IaaS
4 10 (17.24%) PaaS
4 10 (17.24%) SaaS
5 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (6.90%) GCP
6 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.72%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 17 (29.31%) Network Security
2 5 (8.62%) WAN
3 4 (6.90%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (5.17%) Firewall
5 1 (1.72%) 4G
5 1 (1.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (1.72%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (17.24%) SonarQube
2 7 (12.07%) JIRA
3 1 (1.72%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) RStudio
General
1 8 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.72%) Finance
4 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (53.45%) Architect
2 20 (34.48%) Security Architect
3 5 (8.62%) Security Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Consultant
4 4 (6.90%) Lead
4 4 (6.90%) Lead Architect
4 4 (6.90%) Lead Security Architect
4 4 (6.90%) Network Architect
4 4 (6.90%) Security Consultant
4 4 (6.90%) SOC Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) IT Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Security Assurance Manager
5 3 (5.17%) Security Manager
5 3 (5.17%) Supplier Manager
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) ARM Templates
1 10 (17.24%) Azure Blueprints
2 3 (5.17%) PyTorch
2 3 (5.17%) scikit-learn
2 3 (5.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Management Information System
2 10 (17.24%) Onboarding
3 8 (13.79%) Public Cloud
4 5 (8.62%) Security Posture
5 4 (6.90%) Cloud Native
6 3 (5.17%) Algorithms
6 3 (5.17%) NHS
7 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.72%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.72%) Insider Threat
8 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.72%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (58.62%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (34.48%) Information Assurance
3 19 (32.76%) DevOps
3 19 (32.76%) Information Security
3 19 (32.76%) Security Management
4 17 (29.31%) Architectural Patterns
4 17 (29.31%) Security Architecture
5 15 (25.86%) Information Security Management
6 13 (22.41%) ArchiMate
6 13 (22.41%) Risk Assessment
7 12 (20.69%) Containerisation
7 12 (20.69%) Mentoring
8 11 (18.97%) Cloud Security
8 11 (18.97%) DevSecOps
8 11 (18.97%) Software Engineering
9 10 (17.24%) Performance Analysis
9 10 (17.24%) Release Management
9 10 (17.24%) SABSA
9 10 (17.24%) Test Automation
9 10 (17.24%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (74.14%) Security Cleared
2 39 (67.24%) SC Cleared
3 14 (24.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (17.24%) CISM
4 10 (17.24%) CISSP
5 9 (15.52%) CISA
6 8 (13.79%) CREST Certified
6 8 (13.79%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (12.07%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.72%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (1.72%) CLAS
8 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (32.76%) NIST
2 18 (31.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (12.07%) GRC
4 4 (6.90%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (5.17%) GPG13
5 3 (5.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (3.45%) COBIT
6 2 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.72%) JSP 440
7 1 (1.72%) QA
7 1 (1.72%) RMADS
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Firmware
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.97%) Terraform
3 10 (17.24%) Ansible
4 4 (6.90%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 1 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Splunk
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle
3 3 (5.17%) Sparx
4 2 (3.45%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) Apple
5 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.72%) Cadence
5 1 (1.72%) VMware