NCSC Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 366 513
Rank change year-on-year +92 +147 -72
Contract jobs citing NCSC 73 101 106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.40% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.36% 3.29% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 73 79
10th Percentile £499 £476 £446
25th Percentile £563 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £650 £738 £650
90th Percentile £738 £850 £755
UK median daily rate £638 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -5.56% +8.00% +13.64%
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 £73.99 £63.00
% change year-on-year +10.43% +17.44% +8.28%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,172 3,067 5,880
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.39% 12.21% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,495 2,245 4,192
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £419 £420 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 64 118
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.56 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £22.25 £39.80 £42.73
Median % change year-on-year -44.10% -6.85% +112.19%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.94 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.28 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -41.13% +27.27% +30.95%

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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 8 May 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 (9.59%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (53.42%) AWS
2 30 (41.10%) Azure
3 12 (16.44%) GitHub
4 11 (15.07%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (13.70%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (13.70%) IaaS
5 10 (13.70%) PaaS
5 10 (13.70%) SaaS
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (5.48%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (5.48%) GCP
7 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.37%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.29%) Network Security
2 5 (6.85%) WAN
3 4 (5.48%) Firewall
3 4 (5.48%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.74%) 4G
5 1 (1.37%) 5G
5 1 (1.37%) HTTP
5 1 (1.37%) Internet
5 1 (1.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (1.37%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) SonarQube
2 8 (10.96%) JIRA
3 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.37%) Git
3 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.37%) RStudio
General
1 14 (19.18%) Public Sector
2 11 (15.07%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Police
5 2 (2.74%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.37%) Finance
6 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Local Government
6 1 (1.37%) Military
6 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (43.84%) Architect
2 21 (28.77%) Security Architect
3 12 (16.44%) Consultant
3 12 (16.44%) Security Consultant
4 8 (10.96%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 5 (6.85%) Security Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Lead
6 4 (5.48%) Lead Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Lead Security Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Network Architect
6 4 (5.48%) SOC Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) IT Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Security Assurance Manager
7 3 (4.11%) Security Manager
7 3 (4.11%) Supplier Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.70%) ARM Templates
1 10 (13.70%) Azure Blueprints
2 3 (4.11%) PyTorch
2 3 (4.11%) scikit-learn
2 3 (4.11%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.37%) Flask
3 1 (1.37%) Pandas
3 1 (1.37%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.81%) Management Information System
2 10 (13.70%) Onboarding
3 9 (12.33%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.48%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.11%) NHS
6 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.37%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.37%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.37%) PKI
7 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.37%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.37%) Linux
1 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
1 1 (1.37%) Windows
1 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (63.01%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (35.62%) Information Security
3 25 (34.25%) Security Management
4 21 (28.77%) DevOps
4 21 (28.77%) Information Assurance
4 21 (28.77%) Information Security Management
5 17 (23.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 17 (23.29%) Security Architecture
6 16 (21.92%) Risk Assessment
7 13 (17.81%) ArchiMate
7 13 (17.81%) Containerisation
7 13 (17.81%) Mentoring
8 12 (16.44%) TOGAF
9 11 (15.07%) Cloud Security
9 11 (15.07%) Continuous Delivery
9 11 (15.07%) DevSecOps
9 11 (15.07%) SABSA
9 11 (15.07%) Software Engineering
10 10 (13.70%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (13.70%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.37%) Python
1 1 (1.37%) R
Qualifications
1 54 (73.97%) Security Cleared
2 49 (67.12%) SC Cleared
3 20 (27.40%) CISSP
4 19 (26.03%) CISM
5 15 (20.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (12.33%) CISA
7 8 (10.96%) CREST Certified
7 8 (10.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (8.22%) DV Cleared
9 3 (4.11%) Degree
10 2 (2.74%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (2.74%) CLAS
11 1 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.37%) CCNP
11 1 (1.37%) CCSK
11 1 (1.37%) CRISC
11 1 (1.37%) MCSE
11 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (36.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (34.25%) NIST
3 10 (13.70%) Government Security Classifications
4 7 (9.59%) GRC
5 5 (6.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (4.11%) GPG13
6 3 (4.11%) JSP 440
7 2 (2.74%) COBIT
7 2 (2.74%) ISO 31000
7 2 (2.74%) RMADS
7 2 (2.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.37%) GDPR
8 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 13 (17.81%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Kubernetes
1 12 (16.44%) Terraform
2 10 (13.70%) Ansible
3 4 (5.48%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 1 (1.37%) Check_MK
4 1 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 11 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.85%) Splunk
3 3 (4.11%) Databricks
3 3 (4.11%) Oracle
3 3 (4.11%) Sparx
4 2 (2.74%) VMware
5 1 (1.37%) Apple
5 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.37%) Cadence
5 1 (1.37%) Cisco
5 1 (1.37%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.37%) Juniper