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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 122 134
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +53
Contract jobs citing NCSC 9 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.50% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.41% 1.81% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 6
10th Percentile £400 - £603
25th Percentile £484 - £642
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £809 - £969
90th Percentile £838 - £1,075
Central London median daily rate £588 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

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 373 332 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.87% 15.43% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 182 322
10th Percentile £325 £350 £378
25th Percentile £413 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £566 £580
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -2.37% -1.28%
75th Percentile £676 £675 £695
90th Percentile £825 £764 £788
Central London median daily rate £539 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -2.05% -6.38% +1.73%
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 £34.24 £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -2.17% -51.72% +249.40%

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 23 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NCSC in the City of London

NCSC
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 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (22.22%) IaaS
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (11.11%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) GCP Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (22.22%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Security
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
2 4 (44.44%) Security Operations
3 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (33.33%) SIEM
4 2 (22.22%) Change Management
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Threat Detection
4 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
5 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) CISMP
2 2 (22.22%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (11.11%) CCSP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) OSCP
3 1 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (55.56%) NIST
3 3 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (22.22%) GDPR
4 2 (22.22%) GRC
5 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) CyberArk
3 2 (22.22%) LogRhythm
4 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 1 (11.11%) Rapid7