NCSC Contracts in Herefordshire

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Herefordshire 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 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Herefordshire 13.64% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 42.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile £780 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £650 £575 £788
% change year-on-year +13.04% -26.98% -21.25%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7 22 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 31.82% 44.00% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 11
10th Percentile £580 £538 £500
25th Percentile £700 £572 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £639 £650
Median % change year-on-year +25.12% -1.63% +67.20%
75th Percentile £900 £850 £688
90th Percentile - - £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.93%

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the Herefordshire 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
Ledbury - 3 £700 -
NCSC
West Midlands

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible