NCSC Contracts in Central London

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 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 129 165 195
Rank change year-on-year +36 +30 -43
Contract jobs citing NCSC 4 15 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.16% 0.39% 0.066%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.94% 3.07% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 1
10th Percentile £592 - -
25th Percentile £617 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £468
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +38.89% -39.61%
75th Percentile £655 £700 -
90th Percentile £674 £761 -
London median daily rate £638 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -8.93% +12.00% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 426 489 699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.26% 12.67% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 352 474
10th Percentile £363 £375 £351
25th Percentile £463 £485 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £673 £725 £638
90th Percentile £775 £838 £750
London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £18.35 £21.80 £19.13
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.00 £23.06
Median hourly rate £23.80 £25.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% -42.53% +152.17%
75th Percentile £35.16 £42.88 £61.94
90th Percentile £55.75 £53.60 £62.28
London median hourly rate £24.50 £43.86 £44.50
% change year-on-year -44.14% -1.44% +122.50%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in Central London

NCSC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in Central London

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London 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
City of London +32 4 £638 -1.92% 1
NCSC
London

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (25.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (25.00%) RStudio
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Local Government
2 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Business Case
2 3 (75.00%) Business Impact Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (75.00%) Impact Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (75.00%) SABSA
2 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (50.00%) SFIA
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Information Management
4 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) OWASP
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (75.00%) CCSK
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (50.00%) ISO 22301
3 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft