NCSC Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 125 157 191
Rank change year-on-year +32 +34 -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 4 15 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.18% 0.41% 0.047%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.04% 3.24% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile £592 - -
25th Percentile £617 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% - -
75th Percentile £655 £700 -
90th Percentile £674 £761 -
Central London median daily rate £638 £650 £468
% change year-on-year -1.92% +38.89% -39.61%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 386 463 672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.37% 12.70% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 337 455
10th Percentile £363 £400 £352
25th Percentile £463 £495 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +6.80%
75th Percentile £665 £738 £638
90th Percentile £753 £838 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £17.18 - £19.13
25th Percentile £18.94 £58.25 £23.06
Median hourly rate £21.80 £59.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +36.78% +200.00%
75th Percentile £36.44 £60.75 £61.94
90th Percentile £58.83 - £62.28
Central London median hourly rate £23.80 £25.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -4.80% -42.53% +152.17%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NCSC in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for NCSC in the City of London

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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 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