NCSC Contracts in Glasgow

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 78 81 79
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing NCSC 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.13% 0.11% 0.55%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.88% 0.87% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £470
25th Percentile £668 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £703 - £600
90th Percentile - - £660
Scotland median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -18.37%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 114 115 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.29% 13.11% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 80 128
10th Percentile £290 £206 £325
25th Percentile £372 £306 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £444 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -1.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £541 £500 £575
90th Percentile £600 £589 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £31.05 - -
25th Percentile £39.74 - -
Median hourly rate £54.85 £15.42 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year +255.71% -67.69% +19.35%
75th Percentile £69.34 £15.71 -
90th Percentile £77.66 £15.88 -
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform