NCSC Contracts in Hampshire

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 99 126
Rank change year-on-year +29 +27 -33
Contract jobs citing NCSC 29 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.82% 0.28% 0.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.50% 2.04% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £515 £630 £400
25th Percentile £525 £663 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £718 £513
Median % change year-on-year -16.78% +40.10% +11.41%
75th Percentile £650 £749 £547
90th Percentile £748 £768 £638
South East median daily rate £613 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% +23.53%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 200 196 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 12.52% 13.74% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 105 172
10th Percentile £363 £240 £301
25th Percentile £406 £325 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £467 £491
Median % change year-on-year +10.28% -4.94% +5.08%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £578
90th Percentile £688 £712 £665
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 27 27
10th Percentile £18.08 - -
25th Percentile £18.32 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £47.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +53.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £54.38 £56.18 £38.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £49.46
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -11.29% +47.27% -17.45%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in Hampshire

NCSC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in Hampshire

NCSC
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NCSC in Hampshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NCSC in Hampshire

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Farnborough - 19 £598 - 2
Basingstoke - 8 - -
NCSC
South East

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 8 (27.59%) IaaS
1 8 (27.59%) PaaS
1 8 (27.59%) SaaS
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) 5G
1 8 (27.59%) Broadband
2 1 (3.45%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 8 (27.59%) Law
1 8 (27.59%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Penetration Tester
1 8 (27.59%) Security Penetration Tester
1 8 (27.59%) Security Specialist
1 8 (27.59%) Security Tester
1 8 (27.59%) Tester
1 8 (27.59%) Testing Specialist
2 2 (6.90%) Security Advisor
3 1 (3.45%) Analyst
3 1 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) Architect
3 1 (3.45%) Information Analyst
3 1 (3.45%) Information Assurance Analyst
3 1 (3.45%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (3.45%) Security Analyst
3 1 (3.45%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Web Services
2 1 (3.45%) Flask
2 1 (3.45%) Pandas
2 1 (3.45%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (58.62%) Cyber Defence
2 8 (27.59%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (93.10%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (58.62%) Impact Assessments
2 17 (58.62%) Risk Register
2 17 (58.62%) Security Architecture
3 8 (27.59%) Application Security
3 8 (27.59%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 8 (27.59%) OWASP
3 8 (27.59%) Penetration Testing
3 8 (27.59%) Security Testing
3 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.45%) Agile
4 1 (3.45%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (3.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (3.45%) Information Assurance
4 1 (3.45%) Information Security
4 1 (3.45%) Mentoring
4 1 (3.45%) Pair Programming
4 1 (3.45%) Prototyping
4 1 (3.45%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (3.45%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (93.10%) Security Cleared
2 19 (65.52%) DV Cleared
3 8 (27.59%) CREST Certified
3 8 (27.59%) GIAC
3 8 (27.59%) GPEN
3 8 (27.59%) OSCP
3 8 (27.59%) SANS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (62.07%) RMADS
2 8 (27.59%) GDPR
2 8 (27.59%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.90%) NIST
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (3.45%) IASME
4 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (3.45%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (58.62%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Virgin Media
2 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft