NCSC Contracts in England

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 431 602
Rank change year-on-year +62 +171 -77
Contract jobs citing NCSC 166 238 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.47% 0.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.15% 3.53% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 156 108
10th Percentile £496 £513 £459
25th Percentile £563 £613 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £765
UK median daily rate £613 £675 £613
% change year-on-year -9.26% +10.20% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 11
10th Percentile £80.34 £59.73 £53.22
25th Percentile £80.85 £62.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £81.71 £72.98 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% +15.84% +8.28%
75th Percentile £82.56 £83.31 £75.06
90th Percentile £83.07 £83.40 £81.23
UK median hourly rate £81.71 £72.98 £63.00
% change year-on-year +11.96% +15.84% +8.28%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,262 6,748 9,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.24% 13.35% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,344 4,590 6,375
10th Percentile £300 £275 £288
25th Percentile £409 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 206 260
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.60 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.05 £19.07 £16.88
Median hourly rate £22.04 £40.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +46.36% +30.95%
75th Percentile £44.69 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £79.88 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.71%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in England

NCSC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in England

NCSC
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NCSC in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NCSC in England

NCSC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NCSC in England.

Hourly rate trend for NCSC in England

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
South East +63 67 £613 -12.50% 7
London +52 51 £638 -8.93% 9
South West +2 34 £600 -16.43% 11
North of England +9 7 £575 -11.54% 3
North West -10 5 £575 -11.54% 3
West Midlands +28 3 £575 -26.98% 1
Midlands +21 3 £575 -26.98% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £575 -
East of England +6 1 - - 4
NCSC
UK

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (4.22%) Confluence
2 2 (1.20%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.20%) nginx
2 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.20%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.81%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (24.10%) IaaS
2 39 (23.49%) PaaS
2 39 (23.49%) SaaS
3 33 (19.88%) AWS
4 29 (17.47%) Azure
5 7 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (3.61%) GCP
7 4 (2.41%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.41%) GitHub
7 4 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.20%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.60%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (0.60%) Serverless
10 1 (0.60%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 40 (24.10%) 5G
2 39 (23.49%) Broadband
3 19 (11.45%) Network Security
4 12 (7.23%) Firewall
5 8 (4.82%) WAN
6 5 (3.01%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (2.41%) DNS
8 3 (1.81%) 4G
8 3 (1.81%) LAN
8 3 (1.81%) SSL
8 3 (1.81%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.81%) VPN
8 3 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.20%) DHCP
9 2 (1.20%) DMVPN
9 2 (1.20%) HSRP
9 2 (1.20%) MPLS
9 2 (1.20%) OSPF
9 2 (1.20%) SNMP
9 2 (1.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (1.20%) Big Data
2 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.82%) JIRA
2 5 (3.01%) Git
3 4 (2.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.20%) GitLab
4 2 (1.20%) RStudio
5 1 (0.60%) Terragrunt
General
1 39 (23.49%) Law
1 39 (23.49%) Organisational Skills
2 30 (18.07%) Public Sector
3 20 (12.05%) Social Skills
4 6 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.61%) Local Government
5 5 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.81%) Finance
6 3 (1.81%) Legal
6 3 (1.81%) Police
7 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.20%) Military
8 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (27.11%) Architect
2 39 (23.49%) Penetration Tester
2 39 (23.49%) Security Penetration Tester
2 39 (23.49%) Security Specialist
2 39 (23.49%) Security Tester
2 39 (23.49%) Tester
2 39 (23.49%) Testing Specialist
3 25 (15.06%) Security Architect
4 20 (12.05%) Analyst
5 17 (10.24%) Consultant
5 17 (10.24%) Security Consultant
6 14 (8.43%) SOC Analyst
7 10 (6.02%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 10 (6.02%) Senior
8 8 (4.82%) Security Engineer
8 8 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.61%) IT Architect
9 6 (3.61%) Security Analyst
9 6 (3.61%) Senior Architect
9 6 (3.61%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (23.49%) Web Services
2 4 (2.41%) JSON
2 4 (2.41%) XML
3 2 (1.20%) cloud-init
3 2 (1.20%) Jinja
3 2 (1.20%) JSON Schema
3 2 (1.20%) KML
3 2 (1.20%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.20%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.20%) RESTful
3 2 (1.20%) XML Schema
3 2 (1.20%) YANG
4 1 (0.60%) Flask
4 1 (0.60%) Pandas
4 1 (0.60%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 39 (23.49%) Mobile App
2 23 (13.86%) Management Information System
3 17 (10.24%) Cyber Defence
4 15 (9.04%) CSOC
4 15 (9.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 12 (7.23%) Security Posture
6 11 (6.63%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.61%) PKI
8 5 (3.01%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.41%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.41%) SCADA
10 3 (1.81%) NHS
11 2 (1.20%) Clustering
11 2 (1.20%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (1.20%) Cyberattack
11 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 1 (0.60%) Industrial Internet of Things
12 1 (0.60%) Insider Threat
12 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.42%) Linux
2 4 (2.41%) Windows
3 3 (1.81%) CentOS
4 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (70.48%) Cybersecurity
2 56 (33.73%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 44 (26.51%) Information Security
3 44 (26.51%) Penetration Testing
3 44 (26.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 43 (25.90%) Security Architecture
5 42 (25.30%) OWASP
6 40 (24.10%) Application Security
6 40 (24.10%) Security Testing
7 26 (15.66%) Information Assurance
8 25 (15.06%) Incident Response
9 24 (14.46%) Security Management
10 20 (12.05%) Risk Assessment
10 20 (12.05%) Risk Register
11 19 (11.45%) Information Security Management
11 19 (11.45%) Threat Intelligence
12 18 (10.84%) TOGAF
13 17 (10.24%) Impact Assessments
13 17 (10.24%) ITIL
14 16 (9.64%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.01%) Python
2 2 (1.20%) Bash
2 2 (1.20%) Go
2 2 (1.20%) R
2 2 (1.20%) Ruby
3 1 (0.60%) Java
3 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 130 (78.31%) Security Cleared
2 52 (31.33%) SC Cleared
3 47 (28.31%) CREST Certified
4 45 (27.11%) DV Cleared
5 39 (23.49%) GIAC
5 39 (23.49%) GPEN
5 39 (23.49%) OSCP
5 39 (23.49%) SANS
6 31 (18.67%) CISSP
7 26 (15.66%) CISM
8 11 (6.63%) CISA
9 10 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (4.82%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (4.22%) Degree
12 6 (3.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (3.01%) CCSK
14 3 (1.81%) CCNP
14 3 (1.81%) CESG Certified Professional
14 3 (1.81%) MCSE
14 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (34.94%) GDPR
2 46 (27.71%) NIST
3 41 (24.70%) PCI DSS
4 32 (19.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (12.65%) RMADS
6 10 (6.02%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (3.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (3.01%) GRC
9 4 (2.41%) ISO 31000
9 4 (2.41%) JSP 440
10 3 (1.81%) COBIT
10 3 (1.81%) GPG13
10 3 (1.81%) ISO 22301
10 3 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (1.20%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.60%) IASME
System Software
1 7 (4.22%) Docker
2 4 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (10.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 9 (5.42%) Terraform
3 7 (4.22%) Ansible
3 7 (4.22%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.41%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (2.41%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (1.81%) Puppet
6 2 (1.20%) Consul
6 2 (1.20%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.20%) Graphite
6 2 (1.20%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.20%) Istio
6 2 (1.20%) linkerd
6 2 (1.20%) Packer
6 2 (1.20%) Podman
6 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.20%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.60%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 39 (23.49%) Virgin Media
2 18 (10.84%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.02%) VMware
4 7 (4.22%) Splunk
5 4 (2.41%) Cisco
5 4 (2.41%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.81%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.81%) Juniper
7 2 (1.20%) Apple
7 2 (1.20%) Aruba
7 2 (1.20%) Meraki
7 2 (1.20%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.60%) Cadence
8 1 (0.60%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.60%) ForeScout
8 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle