NCSC Contracts in the UK excluding London

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 356 269 421
Rank change year-on-year -87 +152 -31
Contract jobs citing NCSC 45 163 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.72% 0.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.51% 4.85% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 94 59
10th Percentile £515 £550 £407
25th Percentile £525 £613 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +20.77%
75th Percentile £675 £800 £681
90th Percentile £735 £838 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £624
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.22% +18.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 26 7
10th Percentile - £59.73 £60.15
25th Percentile - £63.23 £60.93
Median hourly rate £80.00 £73.99 £68.58
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +7.88% +17.88%
75th Percentile - £83.40 £75.06
90th Percentile - - £79.91
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
UK excluding London

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 requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,989 3,358 4,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.02% 14.80% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,712 2,194 3,095
10th Percentile £250 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 198 198
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.72 £18.02 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.18 £37.50 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.87% +67.45% +7.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.69 £48.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.18 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in the UK excluding London

NCSC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in the UK excluding London

NCSC
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NCSC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NCSC in the UK excluding London

NCSC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NCSC in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for NCSC in the UK excluding London

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South West -43 27 £575 -19.30% 8
South East -16 9 £613 -12.50% 3
Scotland +47 5 £800 +60.00% 1
North of England -10 2 - - 6
North West -12 2 - - 4
West Midlands +11 1 £775 +27.84% 8
Midlands +10 1 £775 +27.84% 9
East of England +2 1 - - 2
NCSC
UK

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 7 (15.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) JBoss
2 1 (2.22%) nginx
2 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.22%) Traefik
2 1 (2.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) AWS
2 12 (26.67%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (11.11%) GCP
4 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) WAN
2 2 (4.44%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) Internet
3 1 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) GitLab
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) JUnit
2 1 (2.22%) Maven
2 1 (2.22%) Subversion
General
1 10 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.44%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) Architect
2 9 (20.00%) Analyst
2 9 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Security Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) IT Architect
5 5 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Network Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Security Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Senior
6 4 (8.89%) Senior Architect
6 4 (8.89%) SOC Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Lead
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Senior VMware Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Technical Architect
7 3 (6.67%) VMware Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 2 (4.44%) Security Manager
9 1 (2.22%) IT Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.22%) cloud-init
1 1 (2.22%) Hibernate
1 1 (2.22%) Java EE
1 1 (2.22%) JPA
1 1 (2.22%) JSP
1 1 (2.22%) JSTL
1 1 (2.22%) OpenJDK
1 1 (2.22%) Servlets
1 1 (2.22%) Spring
1 1 (2.22%) STL
1 1 (2.22%) XML
1 1 (2.22%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Management Information System
2 9 (20.00%) CSOC
2 9 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (17.78%) Public Cloud
3 8 (17.78%) Security Posture
4 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.44%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (4.44%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.22%) Clustering
6 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.22%) PKI
6 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) AIX
2 1 (2.22%) CentOS
2 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Unix
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (37.78%) Incident Response
3 12 (26.67%) Information Security
3 12 (26.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 11 (24.44%) Security Operations
5 10 (22.22%) ITIL
5 10 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 9 (20.00%) ArchiMate
6 9 (20.00%) DevOps
7 8 (17.78%) Information Assurance
8 7 (15.56%) Cloud Security
8 7 (15.56%) Cyber Resilience
8 7 (15.56%) Security Architecture
8 7 (15.56%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 6 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (13.33%) MODAF
9 6 (13.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 6 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
9 6 (13.33%) UML
10 5 (11.11%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.22%) Bash
1 1 (2.22%) Go
1 1 (2.22%) Java
1 1 (2.22%) Python
1 1 (2.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (84.44%) Security Cleared
2 24 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 15 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) CISM
4 4 (8.89%) CISSP
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.44%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (4.44%) Degree
7 1 (2.22%) CEH
7 1 (2.22%) CLAS
7 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.22%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (31.11%) NIST
2 11 (24.44%) GDPR
3 10 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (8.89%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (4.44%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (4.44%) JSP 440
5 2 (4.44%) RMADS
6 1 (2.22%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (2.22%) NIST 800
6 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) Consul
2 1 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (2.22%) Graphite
2 1 (2.22%) HAProxy
2 1 (2.22%) Istio
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) linkerd
2 1 (2.22%) Packer
2 1 (2.22%) Podman
2 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.22%) Puppet
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
2 1 (2.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Splunk
2 5 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle
3 1 (2.22%) PagerDuty