National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for NCSC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NCSC over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 657 594 911
Rank change year-on-year -63 +317 -186
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 251 431 321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.42% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.86% 2.19% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 191 237 199
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,897 £42,450
25th Percentile £55,625 £57,500 £45,904
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.11% -3.08%
75th Percentile £71,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £98,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% +25.00% -6.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

NCSC 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 requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,528 19,692 26,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.72% 18.97% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9,247 9,122 13,236
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,438 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in the UK

NCSC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NCSC.

Salary trend for NCSC in the UK

NCSC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NCSC over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for NCSC in the UK

NCSC
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -23 234 £65,000 -7.14% 36
UK excluding London -20 175 £62,783 -10.31% 28
Work from Home +32 102 £60,202 -14.00% 16
London +15 60 £70,000 - 8
South West -1 59 £68,500 -8.67% 9
North of England +29 35 £62,783 +9.19% 3
South East -30 30 £67,500 -10.00% 8
Midlands +9 27 £60,000 -4.00%
North West +2 21 £61,391 +36.43% 3
West Midlands +17 20 £60,000 -4.00%
East of England +23 15 £65,000 -7.14% 4
North East - 11 £62,783 -
Scotland -67 9 £55,500 - 3
East Midlands -9 7 £61,439 -2.86%
Yorkshire +51 3 £52,500 -30.00%

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.40%) Apache
2 1 (0.40%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) Drupal
2 1 (0.40%) nginx
2 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 46 (18.33%) Azure
2 32 (12.75%) AWS
3 19 (7.57%) IaaS
3 19 (7.57%) PaaS
3 19 (7.57%) SaaS
4 15 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (5.18%) GitHub
5 13 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (3.19%) GCP
8 6 (2.39%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (1.59%) AWS CodeBuild
10 4 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.80%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.80%) Serverless
12 1 (0.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Control Tower
12 1 (0.40%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 29 (11.55%) Network Security
2 24 (9.56%) Firewall
2 24 (9.56%) TCP/IP
3 16 (6.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 9 (3.59%) 5G
5 8 (3.19%) Cisco IPT
5 8 (3.19%) DMZ
5 8 (3.19%) DNS
5 8 (3.19%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (2.79%) VPN
7 6 (2.39%) Wireshark
8 5 (1.99%) BGP
8 5 (1.99%) Internet
8 5 (1.99%) IPsec
8 5 (1.99%) MPLS
8 5 (1.99%) SSL
8 5 (1.99%) Unified Communications
8 5 (1.99%) VLAN
8 5 (1.99%) VoIP
8 5 (1.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.59%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.80%) Power BI
3 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (4.38%) JIRA
2 8 (3.19%) SonarQube
3 4 (1.59%) Terragrunt
4 3 (1.20%) Git
5 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.40%) JMeter
General
1 40 (15.94%) Finance
2 38 (15.14%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.95%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.16%) Telecoms
5 18 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.18%) Aerospace
8 11 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.19%) Military
10 7 (2.79%) Legal
11 6 (2.39%) Law
12 5 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.20%) Retail
14 2 (0.80%) Publishing
15 1 (0.40%) Aviation
15 1 (0.40%) Games
15 1 (0.40%) Mandarin Language
15 1 (0.40%) Marketing
15 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 44 (17.53%) Security Manager
2 42 (16.73%) Consultant
3 37 (14.74%) Analyst
3 37 (14.74%) Security Consultant
4 35 (13.94%) Security Analyst
5 34 (13.55%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 31 (12.35%) Information Manager
6 31 (12.35%) Information Security Manager
6 31 (12.35%) Security Assurance Manager
7 30 (11.95%) Information Assurance Manager
7 30 (11.95%) Senior
8 26 (10.36%) Lead
9 20 (7.97%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 19 (7.57%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 14 (5.58%) Security Engineer
12 12 (4.78%) Managing Consultant
13 11 (4.38%) Architect
14 9 (3.59%) Coordinator
14 9 (3.59%) Security Officer
14 9 (3.59%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.19%) ARM Templates
1 8 (3.19%) Azure Blueprints
1 8 (3.19%) ModSecurity
2 7 (2.79%) XML
3 6 (2.39%) JSON
3 6 (2.39%) JSON Schema
3 6 (2.39%) KML
3 6 (2.39%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.40%) EDI
4 1 (0.40%) REST
4 1 (0.40%) SOAP
4 1 (0.40%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 72 (28.69%) Management Information System
2 45 (17.93%) Cyberattack
3 38 (15.14%) Operational Technology
4 22 (8.76%) Cyber Defence
5 18 (7.17%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (3.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 10 (3.98%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.98%) SCADA
7 9 (3.59%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.19%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.39%) NHS
10 5 (1.99%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.99%) Industry 4.0
10 5 (1.99%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.99%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.37%) Linux
2 13 (5.18%) Windows
3 5 (1.99%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.99%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.59%) Android
4 4 (1.59%) DC/OS
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (82.07%) Cybersecurity
2 89 (35.46%) Risk Management
3 82 (32.67%) Information Security
4 58 (23.11%) Mentoring
5 54 (21.51%) Information Assurance
6 45 (17.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 43 (17.13%) Security Management
8 40 (15.94%) SIEM
9 39 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (14.74%) Security Architecture
11 35 (13.94%) Incident Response
12 32 (12.75%) Project Management
13 31 (12.35%) Security Operations
14 27 (10.76%) Agile
15 24 (9.56%) Coaching
16 23 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (9.16%) Data Protection
17 21 (8.37%) Line Management
18 20 (7.97%) MITRE ATT&CK
18 20 (7.97%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.59%) Python
2 7 (2.79%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.39%) Bash
4 5 (1.99%) C
5 4 (1.59%) C#
5 4 (1.59%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.40%) Java
6 1 (0.40%) PHP
6 1 (0.40%) SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (48.21%) Security Cleared
2 91 (36.25%) SC Cleared
3 55 (21.91%) CISSP
4 51 (20.32%) CISM
5 47 (18.73%) Degree
6 21 (8.37%) CRISC
7 20 (7.97%) CESG Certified Professional
8 18 (7.17%) DV Cleared
9 17 (6.77%) CASP
9 17 (6.77%) CEH
10 16 (6.37%) Master's Degree
11 15 (5.98%) CISA
12 10 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (3.59%) GIAC
13 9 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (3.19%) CompTIA Security+
15 7 (2.79%) PCI QSA
16 6 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
17 5 (1.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 5 (1.99%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (41.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (32.67%) NIST
3 39 (15.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 34 (13.55%) GDPR
5 28 (11.16%) GRC
6 24 (9.56%) PCI DSS
7 21 (8.37%) NIST 800
8 19 (7.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (3.59%) JSP 440
10 8 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 7 (2.79%) RMADS
12 5 (1.99%) ISO 31000
13 4 (1.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (1.20%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.80%) ISA99
15 2 (0.80%) ISO 22301
16 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
16 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
16 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 15 (5.98%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.80%) vSphere
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.98%) Terraform
2 14 (5.58%) Ansible
3 12 (4.78%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.39%) CSIRT
5 3 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.80%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.40%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.40%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.40%) Nessus
7 1 (0.40%) QRadar
7 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (13.55%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.98%) Splunk
3 9 (3.59%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.39%) Cisco
4 6 (2.39%) Qualys
5 5 (1.99%) BT
5 5 (1.99%) CheckPoint
5 5 (1.99%) Google
5 5 (1.99%) Palo Alto
5 5 (1.99%) SolarWinds
6 4 (1.59%) VMware
7 2 (0.80%) BMC
7 2 (0.80%) Facebook
8 1 (0.40%) CA
8 1 (0.40%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.40%) Databricks
8 1 (0.40%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.40%) Meraki
8 1 (0.40%) NetApp
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat