NCSC Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring NCSC skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 74 99
Rank change year-on-year +12 +25 -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.94% 0.24% 0.094%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.41% 1.16% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £618 - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £800 -
% change year-on-year -37.50% - -

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 136 173 270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.38% 20.77% 25.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 95 191
10th Percentile £247 £165 £250
25th Percentile £413 £307 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% -1.60%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £529
90th Percentile £563 £619 £588
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £25.42 £16.50 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £18.07 £57.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.27 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +214.72% -69.55% +217.46%
75th Percentile £66.88 £18.95 £62.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £47.09 -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £14.98 £21.75
% change year-on-year +133.64% -31.13% +15.08%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing NCSC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing NCSC

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NCSC in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 6 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) iOS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (50.00%) Ajax
1 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) JMS
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
1 3 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (33.33%) Core Data
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) AIX
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) OWASP
2 4 (66.67%) Case Management
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Deployment Diagram
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Web Development
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) iOS Development
4 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
5 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Objective-C
2 2 (33.33%) Swift
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) VB
3 1 (16.67%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
1 3 (50.00%) VMware