NCSC Contracts in Gloucestershire

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 37 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing NCSC 4 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.46% - 1.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.79% - 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile £780 - -
South West median daily rate £700 £600 £718
% change year-on-year +16.67% -16.43% +22.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £83.31
Median hourly rate - - £83.36
75th Percentile - - £83.40
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - - £73.99
% change year-on-year - - +19.40%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 29 72 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.58% 16.78% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 42
10th Percentile £423 £413 £200
25th Percentile £453 £525 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +68.75% +4.58%
75th Percentile £700 £706 £519
90th Percentile £900 £750 £649
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £515
% change year-on-year - +1.94% +7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.00 £83.31
Median hourly rate £75.00 £67.50 £83.36
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -19.02% +51.55%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £83.40
90th Percentile - £70.00 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £64.57
% change year-on-year +44.44% -30.31% -5.84%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for NCSC in Gloucestershire

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Gloucester - 4 £700 - 1
NCSC
South West

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) VB
1 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) MCP
3 1 (25.00%) MCSA
3 1 (25.00%) MCSE
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) McAfee
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Symantec
1 1 (25.00%) VMware