NCSC Contracts in Buckinghamshire

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 76 -
Rank change year-on-year +31 - -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.23% 0.11% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.38% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £606 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% - -
75th Percentile £637 - -
90th Percentile £643 - -
South East median daily rate £613 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% +23.53%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 94 165 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 19.26% 18.69% 14.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 125 89
10th Percentile £172 £245 £145
25th Percentile £351 £365 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +2.22% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £529 £575
90th Percentile £619 £610 £620
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 5
10th Percentile £18.00 - £11.39
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £12.31
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.71%
75th Percentile £29.06 - £14.51
90th Percentile £30.00 - £18.70
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -11.29% +47.27% -17.45%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in Buckinghamshire

NCSC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NCSC in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for NCSC in Buckinghamshire

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Milton Keynes +29 2 £643 +28.61%
NCSC
South East

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Senior
1 6 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Senior VMware Architect
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Architect
3 3 (50.00%) IT Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) CCNP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) MCSE
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware