NCSC Contracts in Edinburgh

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring NCSC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NCSC over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 69 110
Rank change year-on-year +6 +41 +9
Contract jobs citing NCSC 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 0.37% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.82% 1.44% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £470 - £420
25th Percentile £481 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £525 - £550
90th Percentile £540 - £580
Scotland median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -18.37%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 142 208 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.72% 25.52% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 128 280
10th Percentile £184 £219 £224
25th Percentile £354 £348 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £484
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -3.88% +13.82%
75th Percentile £534 £571 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £602
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 1
10th Percentile £20.88 £17.72 -
25th Percentile £24.38 £18.14 £51.25
Median hourly rate £27.35 £19.17 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.67% -63.49% +13.51%
75th Percentile £38.79 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £57.51 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £27.35 £18.27 £47.73
% change year-on-year +49.70% -61.72% +44.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing NCSC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NCSC in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for NCSC in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) iOS Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (50.00%) Ajax
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Core Data
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) JMS
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) AIX
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) OWASP
2 3 (75.00%) Case Management
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Diagram
3 2 (50.00%) iOS Development
3 2 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Web Development
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) Swift
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) VB6
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) VMware