NCSC Contract Job Trends in the East of England

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring NCSC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 83 110
Rank change year-on-year -23 +27 +2
Contract jobs citing NCSC 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.14% 0.40% 0.051%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.86% 2.29% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 £244 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £249 -
Median % change year-on-year +80.72% - -
75th Percentile £463 £254 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
England median hourly rate £83.65 £84.21 £81.71
% change year-on-year -0.66% +3.06% +8.95%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 347 175 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.63% 17.68% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 86 88
10th Percentile £381 £247 £243
25th Percentile £463 £375 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £410
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +28.05% -8.89%
75th Percentile £638 £605 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £600
England median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 29 31
10th Percentile £13.86 £17.76 £14.41
25th Percentile £16.53 £29.51 £15.19
Median hourly rate £20.05 £61.50 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -67.41% +289.49% -9.77%
75th Percentile £32.79 £80.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £88.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £33.98 £34.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -1.51% +43.75% -43.53%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in the East of England

NCSC
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NCSC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NCSC

NCSC
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NCSC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NCSC

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the East of England region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Suffolk - 3 £450 -
NCSC
England

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) ADSL
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) IPsec
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 3 (100.00%) SCADA
2 2 (66.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) ISA99
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) VMware