NCSC Contracts in Leeds

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.29% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £690 - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £725 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 63 89 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 13.55% 11.14% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 61 91
10th Percentile £256 £250 £313
25th Percentile £300 £400 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £541 £588 £575
90th Percentile £729 £688 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £521 £500
% change year-on-year -13.63% +4.20% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 £18.27 -
Median % change year-on-year +80.41% - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £13.16
% change year-on-year +21.18% +38.83% -29.63%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (83.33%) nginx
1 5 (83.33%) Traefik
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 6 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 6 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) GitLab
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
1 5 (83.33%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) cloud-init
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
1 6 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) CentOS
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
1 6 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 6 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Go
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Consul
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
1 6 (100.00%) Istio
1 6 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) linkerd
1 6 (100.00%) Packer
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 6 (100.00%) Rancher
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
1 6 (100.00%) ZABBIX
2 5 (83.33%) HAProxy
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Okta
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
2 5 (83.33%) Apple
2 5 (83.33%) ESET