NCSC Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring NCSC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 1.08% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 - -
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £540 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -10.57%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 56 11 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 30.11% 8.87% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 8 25
10th Percentile £200 £439 £428
25th Percentile £416 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £591 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £556 £653 £570
90th Percentile - £700 £638
Hampshire median daily rate £533 £500 £546
% change year-on-year +6.50% -8.47% +9.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £48.25
25th Percentile £44.86 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.41%
75th Percentile £52.58 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £30.86 £22.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +40.27% -60.00% +98.34%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Keycloak
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) linkerd
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) VMware