NCSC Contract Job Trends in the City of London

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring NCSC skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 124 150
Rank change year-on-year +7 +26 +33
Contract jobs citing NCSC 2 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.29% 0.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.58% 1.75% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £433 -
25th Percentile £513 £436 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £444 £850
Median % change year-on-year +18.31% -47.79% +30.77%
75th Percentile £538 £448 £1,063
90th Percentile - £449 £1,085
Central London median daily rate £650 £444 £850
% change year-on-year +46.48% -47.79% +30.77%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 344 343 455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.51% 16.35% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 201 344
10th Percentile £323 £363 £400
25th Percentile £415 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £700
90th Percentile £838 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £598
% change year-on-year -0.18% -7.78% +3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £23.83 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £26.57 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -
75th Percentile £56.75 £22.50 -
90th Percentile £75.95 £23.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £25.18 -
% change year-on-year +35.03% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in the City of London

NCSC
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NCSC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NCSC

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) NHS
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) NIST