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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
DemandTrendContract jobs citing NCSC 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.51% - 0.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.06% - 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £610 - -
25th Percentile £625 - £690
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £730
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.31%
75th Percentile £675 - £770
90th Percentile £690 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £650 - £730
% change year-on-year - - +12.31%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 98 83 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 16.70% 11.51% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 57 87
10th Percentile £235 £359 £300
25th Percentile £363 £450 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.94% +2.00%
75th Percentile £527 £578 £594
90th Percentile £600 £638 £676
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £509 £510
% change year-on-year -11.50% -0.29% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £25.68 - -
25th Percentile £26.69 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £29.06 £18.27 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.03% -15.02% -17.31%
75th Percentile £32.10 - £22.25
90th Percentile £33.51 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £14.64
% change year-on-year +21.18% +24.84% -18.81%

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

NCSC
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing NCSC

NCSC
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Brio
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft