NCSC Contracts in the North East

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.61% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £476 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 - -
75th Percentile £586 - -
90th Percentile £617 - -
England median daily rate £650 £588 £694
% change year-on-year +10.64% -15.32% +11.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 53 46 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 16.16% 14.74% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 25 34
10th Percentile £248 £316 £331
25th Percentile £410 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 - £500
90th Percentile £638 £580 £579
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 7
10th Percentile - £14.63 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.37 £19.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £13.49 £35.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.73% +80.77% +11.43%
75th Percentile £13.61 £48.75 £26.13
90th Percentile - - £32.70
England median hourly rate £31.76 £24.18 £40.32
% change year-on-year +31.35% -40.03% +55.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing NCSC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NCSC in the North East.

Daily rate trend for NCSC in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NCSC in the North East over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NCSC in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the North East region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £528 - 6
NCSC
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001