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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 116 140
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 +46
Contract jobs citing NCSC 8 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.47% 0.38% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.29% 2.31% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £400 £433 -
25th Percentile £456 £436 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £444 £850
Median % change year-on-year +32.39% -47.79% +30.77%
75th Percentile £819 £448 £1,063
90th Percentile £838 £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 350 346 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.71% 16.41% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 197 326
10th Percentile £327 £350 £400
25th Percentile £414 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £565 £578
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.16% -3.75%
75th Percentile £685 £675 £695
90th Percentile £827 £769 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -0.05% -5.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £26.53 - -
25th Percentile £26.57 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £56.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile £75.95 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -1.49% -51.72% +137.70%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NCSC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

NCSC job vacancy trend in the City of London

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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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NCSC in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NCSC in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) GCP Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Security Management
4 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) CISMP
2 2 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (50.00%) NIST
3 3 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (12.50%) GDPR
4 1 (12.50%) GRC
4 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (25.00%) LogRhythm