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 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 121 146
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 +40
Contract jobs citing NCSC 4 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.15% 1.94% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £423 £433 -
25th Percentile £456 £436 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £444 £850
Median % change year-on-year +18.31% -47.79% +30.77%
75th Percentile £669 £448 £1,063
90th Percentile £748 £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 347 360 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.29% 16.89% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 206 327
10th Percentile £334 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £700
90th Percentile £827 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £23.83 - -
25th Percentile £26.57 £16.00 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £17.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
75th Percentile £56.75 £18.00 -
90th Percentile £75.95 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £29.40 -
% change year-on-year +15.65% - -

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 12 October 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISMP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) NIST
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (25.00%) GDPR
4 1 (25.00%) GRC
4 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm