NCSC Contract Job Trends in Westminster

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
City of Westminster > Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Westminster requiring NCSC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Westminster 7.14% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £650 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Westminster 21.43% 41.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £504 £388 -
25th Percentile £528 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% - -
75th Percentile £628 £488 -
90th Percentile £641 £519 -
City of Westminster median daily rate £600 £475 £975
% change year-on-year +26.32% -51.28% +90.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.11 - -
City of Westminster median hourly rate £26.11 - -

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Westminster

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in Westminster

NCSC
Daily Rate Trend in Westminster

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Westminster citing NCSC

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Westminster 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CASP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SELinux