NCSC Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring NCSC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 7.04% 0.91% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 52.63% 9.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £813 - -
90th Percentile £850 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £700 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 19 11 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 13.38% 10.00% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 9
10th Percentile £408 £400 £490
25th Percentile £556 £413 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £463 £688
Median % change year-on-year +51.35% -32.73% +150.00%
75th Percentile - £545 £706
90th Percentile £850 £604 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £513 £473 £575
% change year-on-year +8.47% -17.83% +43.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £16.89 £75.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -77.48% +11.11% -8.49%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NCSC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

NCSC job vacancy trend in Gloucester

NCSC
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing NCSC

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform