NCSC Contracts in the South East

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for NCSC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NCSC over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 203 241
Rank change year-on-year +94 +38 -72
Contract jobs citing NCSC 95 23 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.69% 0.38% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.63% 2.51% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 11
10th Percentile £531 £629 £407
25th Percentile £601 - £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% +23.53%
75th Percentile £645 £709 £588
90th Percentile £684 £759 £688
England median daily rate £606 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -10.19% +8.00% +11.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

NCSC is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 894 918 1,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.89% 15.32% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 575 807
10th Percentile £255 £200 £216
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £640 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 49 47
10th Percentile £10.82 £18.25 £12.19
25th Percentile £16.25 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.27 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.06% +38.98% -11.76%
75th Percentile £48.75 £53.75 £43.35
90th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £51.16
England median hourly rate £20.50 £40.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -49.38% +47.27% +30.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NCSC in the South East over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NCSC in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NCSC in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for NCSC in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +65 61 £613 -9.26%
Berkshire +43 55 - -
Hampshire +42 33 £598 -16.78% 3
Buckinghamshire +35 6 £613 +22.50%
Surrey -1 1 £675 -3.57%
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England

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 66 (69.47%) IaaS
1 66 (69.47%) PaaS
1 66 (69.47%) SaaS
2 5 (5.26%) Azure
3 4 (4.21%) AWS
4 1 (1.05%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 66 (69.47%) 5G
1 66 (69.47%) Broadband
2 1 (1.05%) Firewall
2 1 (1.05%) HTTP
2 1 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.05%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Git
1 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 66 (69.47%) Law
1 66 (69.47%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (2.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 66 (69.47%) Penetration Tester
1 66 (69.47%) Security Penetration Tester
1 66 (69.47%) Security Specialist
1 66 (69.47%) Security Tester
1 66 (69.47%) Tester
1 66 (69.47%) Testing Specialist
2 8 (8.42%) Architect
3 6 (6.32%) Senior
3 6 (6.32%) Senior Architect
3 6 (6.32%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 6 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.21%) Senior VMware Architect
4 4 (4.21%) VMware Architect
5 3 (3.16%) IT Architect
6 2 (2.11%) Analyst
6 2 (2.11%) Security Advisor
6 2 (2.11%) Security Analyst
6 2 (2.11%) Security Architect
7 1 (1.05%) Information Analyst
7 1 (1.05%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (69.47%) Web Services
2 1 (1.05%) Flask
2 1 (1.05%) Pandas
2 1 (1.05%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 66 (69.47%) Mobile App
2 17 (17.89%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (89.47%) Cybersecurity
2 69 (72.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 66 (69.47%) Application Security
3 66 (69.47%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 66 (69.47%) OWASP
3 66 (69.47%) Penetration Testing
3 66 (69.47%) Security Testing
4 18 (18.95%) Security Architecture
5 17 (17.89%) Impact Assessments
5 17 (17.89%) Risk Register
6 4 (4.21%) Agile
6 4 (4.21%) DevOps
7 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (3.16%) IT Strategy
7 3 (3.16%) Technology Strategy
7 3 (3.16%) TOGAF
8 2 (2.11%) CI/CD
8 2 (2.11%) Containerisation
8 2 (2.11%) Information Assurance
8 2 (2.11%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 93 (97.89%) Security Cleared
2 67 (70.53%) SANS
3 66 (69.47%) CREST Certified
3 66 (69.47%) GIAC
3 66 (69.47%) GPEN
3 66 (69.47%) OSCP
4 22 (23.16%) DV Cleared
5 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.21%) CCNP
6 4 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.16%) MCSE
7 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.05%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (1.05%) CISM
8 1 (1.05%) CISSP
8 1 (1.05%) CLAS
8 1 (1.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (69.47%) GDPR
1 66 (69.47%) PCI DSS
2 19 (20.00%) RMADS
3 9 (9.47%) NIST
4 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.11%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (1.05%) IASME
5 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (1.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (17.89%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (69.47%) Virgin Media
2 6 (6.32%) VMware
3 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft