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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 455 391 619
Rank change year-on-year -64 +228 -64
Contract jobs citing NCSC 96 256 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.54% 0.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.89% 3.99% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 164 108
10th Percentile £476 £500 £439
25th Percentile £531 £600 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £759
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 26 7
10th Percentile £80.34 £59.73 £60.15
25th Percentile £80.85 £63.23 £60.93
Median hourly rate £81.71 £73.99 £68.58
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% +7.88% +17.88%
75th Percentile £82.56 £83.38 £75.06
90th Percentile £83.07 £83.40 £79.91
UK median hourly rate £81.71 £73.99 £68.58
% change year-on-year +10.43% +7.88% +17.88%

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 5,086 6,419 9,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.78% 13.52% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,334 6,367
10th Percentile £300 £300 £294
25th Percentile £406 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.35% +9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 223 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.04 £12.31
25th Percentile £13.18 £20.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +54.55% +33.92%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.95 £69.52
UK median hourly rate £22.42 £37.50 £28.12
% change year-on-year -40.21% +33.38% +33.88%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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
London +31 43 £650 -7.14% 12
South West -28 34 £600 -16.11% 9
South East -17 12 £628 -10.32% 4
North of England -4 3 - - 5
North West -6 3 - - 3
Midlands +16 1 £775 +27.84% 4
West Midlands +7 1 £775 +27.84% 4
East of England +1 1 - - 1
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 6 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.08%) nginx
2 2 (2.08%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 33 (34.38%) AWS
2 22 (22.92%) Azure
3 6 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (6.25%) GCP
4 4 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.13%) GitHub
5 3 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.04%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.04%) Serverless
7 1 (1.04%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.75%) Network Security
2 12 (12.50%) Firewall
3 9 (9.38%) WAN
4 5 (5.21%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (4.17%) DNS
5 4 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (3.13%) Internet
6 3 (3.13%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.08%) 4G
7 2 (2.08%) BGP
7 2 (2.08%) DHCP
7 2 (2.08%) DMVPN
7 2 (2.08%) HSRP
7 2 (2.08%) LAN
7 2 (2.08%) MPLS
7 2 (2.08%) OSPF
7 2 (2.08%) SNMP
7 2 (2.08%) SSL
7 2 (2.08%) VLAN
7 2 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (2.08%) Big Data
2 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) JIRA
2 4 (4.17%) Git
3 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.08%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.08%) GitLab
4 2 (2.08%) RStudio
5 1 (1.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (21.88%) Public Sector
2 13 (13.54%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.13%) Finance
5 2 (2.08%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.08%) Legal
5 2 (2.08%) Military
6 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (41.67%) Architect
2 20 (20.83%) Security Architect
3 18 (18.75%) Analyst
4 14 (14.58%) SOC Analyst
5 10 (10.42%) Security Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Senior
6 9 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (8.33%) Consultant
7 8 (8.33%) Security Consultant
8 6 (6.25%) IT Architect
8 6 (6.25%) Senior Architect
8 6 (6.25%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Lead
10 4 (4.17%) Network Architect
10 4 (4.17%) Risk Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Security Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Senior VMware Architect
10 4 (4.17%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) JSON
1 4 (4.17%) XML
2 2 (2.08%) cloud-init
2 2 (2.08%) Jinja
2 2 (2.08%) JSON Schema
2 2 (2.08%) KML
2 2 (2.08%) NETCONF
2 2 (2.08%) Regular Expression
2 2 (2.08%) RESTful
2 2 (2.08%) XML Schema
2 2 (2.08%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.92%) Management Information System
2 15 (15.63%) CSOC
2 15 (15.63%) Security Operations Centre
3 11 (11.46%) Public Cloud
4 9 (9.38%) Security Posture
5 6 (6.25%) PKI
6 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.13%) NHS
7 3 (3.13%) Operational Technology
8 2 (2.08%) Clustering
8 2 (2.08%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (2.08%) Cyberattack
8 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.08%) SCADA
9 1 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.04%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (1.04%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (1.04%) Insider Threat
9 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.38%) Linux
2 4 (4.17%) Windows
3 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.08%) CentOS
4 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (52.08%) Cybersecurity
2 35 (36.46%) Information Security
3 26 (27.08%) Information Assurance
4 25 (26.04%) Incident Response
5 21 (21.88%) Risk Assessment
6 20 (20.83%) Security Architecture
6 20 (20.83%) Security Management
7 19 (19.79%) Threat Intelligence
8 18 (18.75%) Security Operations
9 17 (17.71%) ITIL
9 17 (17.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 15 (15.63%) Information Security Management
11 14 (14.58%) Architectural Patterns
11 14 (14.58%) DevOps
12 13 (13.54%) Cloud Security
12 13 (13.54%) TOGAF
13 11 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (11.46%) Cyber Resilience
13 11 (11.46%) Risk Management
13 11 (11.46%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.17%) Python
2 2 (2.08%) Bash
2 2 (2.08%) Go
2 2 (2.08%) R
2 2 (2.08%) Ruby
3 1 (1.04%) Java
3 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (70.83%) Security Cleared
2 45 (46.88%) SC Cleared
3 25 (26.04%) DV Cleared
4 17 (17.71%) CISM
4 17 (17.71%) CISSP
5 11 (11.46%) CISA
6 8 (8.33%) CREST Certified
6 8 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (5.21%) Degree
8 3 (3.13%) CCNP
8 3 (3.13%) CESG Certified Professional
8 3 (3.13%) MCSE
8 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.08%) CLAS
9 2 (2.08%) CRISC
10 1 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (39.58%) NIST
2 23 (23.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (19.79%) GDPR
4 6 (6.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 5 (5.21%) COBIT
5 5 (5.21%) GRC
6 4 (4.17%) Government Security Classifications
6 4 (4.17%) ISO 31000
6 4 (4.17%) RMADS
7 3 (3.13%) GPG13
7 3 (3.13%) JSP 440
7 3 (3.13%) PCI DSS
7 3 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (2.08%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.04%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.04%) ISA99
9 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.21%) Docker
2 3 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.08%) Firmware
3 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.29%) Terraform
2 6 (6.25%) Ansible
2 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.17%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 3 (3.13%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (2.08%) CASB
5 2 (2.08%) Consul
5 2 (2.08%) Graphite
5 2 (2.08%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.08%) Istio
5 2 (2.08%) linkerd
5 2 (2.08%) Packer
5 2 (2.08%) Podman
5 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.08%) Puppet
5 2 (2.08%) SCCM
5 2 (2.08%) SCOrch
5 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.08%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.04%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.38%) VMware
3 7 (7.29%) Splunk
4 5 (5.21%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.13%) Cisco
5 3 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (3.13%) Juniper
6 2 (2.08%) Aruba
6 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.08%) Imperva
6 2 (2.08%) Meraki
6 2 (2.08%) Netskope
6 2 (2.08%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.04%) Apple
7 1 (1.04%) Cadence
7 1 (1.04%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.04%) ForeScout
7 1 (1.04%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle
7 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow