NCSC Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring NCSC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 2.99% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Suffolk median daily rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 19.40% 9.80% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £530 £204 -
25th Percentile £594 £322 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £653 £519 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.72% - -
75th Percentile £666 £635 -
90th Percentile £700 £705 -
Suffolk median daily rate £653 £225 £700
% change year-on-year +190.00% -67.86% +9.03%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in Ipswich

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) ADSL
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
1 2 (100.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISA99
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware