NCSC Contract Job Trends in Taunton

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Somerset > Taunton

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 12.00% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Somerset median daily rate £550 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 24.00% - 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £515 - £613
25th Percentile £538 - £615
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £631
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.72%
75th Percentile £563 - £659
90th Percentile £585 - £669
Somerset median daily rate £275 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -52.17% +4.55% +8.37%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in Taunton

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (33.33%) MODAF Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) MODAF
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
1 3 (100.00%) UX Research
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) FinOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware