NCSC Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring NCSC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 83 90
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +33
Contract jobs citing NCSC 5 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.48% 0.34% 0.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.50% 3.54% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £628 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £505 £673
% change year-on-year +8.91% -24.93% +3.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 200 113 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.27% 9.62% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 71 102
10th Percentile £200 £200 £287
25th Percentile £430 £401 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £569 £638 £666
90th Percentile £650 £690 £673
South East median daily rate £500 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 19
10th Percentile £13.33 £21.75 £15.21
25th Percentile £13.81 £26.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate £14.75 £70.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.93% +40.00% +80.31%
75th Percentile £42.26 - £59.63
90th Percentile £58.70 - £60.00
South East median hourly rate £17.22 £55.00 £50.53
% change year-on-year -68.70% +8.85% +140.61%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in Hampshire

NCSC
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing NCSC

NCSC
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NCSC in Hampshire over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

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 25 October 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
Farnborough - 2 £569 - 4
Southampton - 1 £530 -
NCSC
South East

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Supplier Management
2 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (60.00%) IASME
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
1 3 (60.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (20.00%) JSP 440
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) VMware