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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 402 535
Rank change year-on-year +59 +133 -118
Contract jobs citing NCSC 51 99 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.37% 0.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.06% 2.81% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 77 37
10th Percentile £488 £513 £463
25th Percentile £534 £625 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £650
90th Percentile - £843 £702
England median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £81.71 £72.98 £63.00
% change year-on-year +11.96% +15.84% +8.28%

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 2,473 3,529 5,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.96% 13.05% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,749 2,545 3,507
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £650
90th Percentile £788 £793 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £524
% change year-on-year - +0.19% +10.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 36 83
10th Percentile £12.90 £20.25 £21.00
25th Percentile £17.94 £21.24 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% -30.90% +122.50%
75th Percentile £46.25 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £56.75 £81.25 £68.50
England median hourly rate £22.04 £41.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -46.90% +50.91% +30.95%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +27 4 £638 -1.92% 1
East London -4 1 £600 -
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 3 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) Jupyter
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) AWS
2 16 (31.37%) Azure
3 7 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.88%) GitHub
5 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.92%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.96%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.96%) IaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Route 53
6 1 (1.96%) Serverless
6 1 (1.96%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 19 (37.25%) Network Security
2 9 (17.65%) Firewall
3 4 (7.84%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (5.88%) LAN
4 3 (5.88%) VPN
4 3 (5.88%) WAN
4 3 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (3.92%) 4G
5 2 (3.92%) BGP
5 2 (3.92%) DHCP
5 2 (3.92%) DMVPN
5 2 (3.92%) DNS
5 2 (3.92%) HSRP
5 2 (3.92%) MPLS
5 2 (3.92%) OSPF
5 2 (3.92%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.92%) SNMP
5 2 (3.92%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (3.92%) SSL
5 2 (3.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (3.92%) Big Data
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) CircleCI
2 2 (3.92%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.92%) RStudio
3 1 (1.96%) Terragrunt
General
1 15 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Local Government
4 2 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.96%) Legal
5 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (54.90%) Architect
2 23 (45.10%) Security Architect
3 9 (17.65%) Consultant
3 9 (17.65%) Security Consultant
4 5 (9.80%) Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Risk Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Security Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Senior
6 3 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 3 (5.88%) Security Risk Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) AWS Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Principal Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Principal Security Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Technical Architect
8 1 (1.96%) Business Analyst
8 1 (1.96%) Project Manager
8 1 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) JSON
1 4 (7.84%) XML
2 2 (3.92%) Jinja
2 2 (3.92%) JSON Schema
2 2 (3.92%) KML
2 2 (3.92%) NETCONF
2 2 (3.92%) Regular Expression
2 2 (3.92%) RESTful
2 2 (3.92%) XML Schema
2 2 (3.92%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Security Posture
2 4 (7.84%) Operational Technology
2 4 (7.84%) SCADA
3 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.88%) NHS
3 3 (5.88%) PKI
4 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.96%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.96%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.96%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.96%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.96%) IoT
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.92%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) CentOS
3 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (39.22%) Security Architecture
3 19 (37.25%) Information Security
4 17 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
5 16 (31.37%) Information Assurance
5 16 (31.37%) Security Management
6 15 (29.41%) Architectural Patterns
6 15 (29.41%) SABSA
6 15 (29.41%) TOGAF
7 13 (25.49%) Information Security Management
8 9 (17.65%) Risk Management
9 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (11.76%) Cloud Security
10 6 (11.76%) Risk Analysis
11 5 (9.80%) Business Case
11 5 (9.80%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (9.80%) Containerisation
11 5 (9.80%) Cyber Assurance
12 4 (7.84%) Penetration Testing
12 4 (7.84%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.92%) Python
1 2 (3.92%) R
2 1 (1.96%) Java
2 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 20 (39.22%) CISSP
3 18 (35.29%) SC Cleared
4 15 (29.41%) CISM
5 11 (21.57%) CISA
6 8 (15.69%) CREST Certified
6 8 (15.69%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (13.73%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (11.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (11.76%) DV Cleared
9 5 (9.80%) CCSK
10 3 (5.88%) Degree
11 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (3.92%) CRISC
12 1 (1.96%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (52.94%) NIST
2 17 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (11.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (9.80%) GRC
5 4 (7.84%) ISO 31000
6 3 (5.88%) COBIT
6 3 (5.88%) GPG13
6 3 (5.88%) ISO 22301
6 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.96%) GDPR
7 1 (1.96%) ISA99
7 1 (1.96%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) Terraform
2 5 (9.80%) Ansible
2 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.92%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (3.92%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) Palo Alto
3 3 (5.88%) Cisco
4 2 (3.92%) Apple
4 2 (3.92%) Aruba
4 2 (3.92%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.92%) Juniper
4 2 (3.92%) Meraki
4 2 (3.92%) VMware
5 1 (1.96%) Cadence
5 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.96%) ForeScout
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle