NCSC Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring NCSC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 7.14% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 66.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £813 - -
90th Percentile £850 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £700 £563 £575
% change year-on-year +24.44% -2.17% +2.22%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 15 18 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 10.71% 27.27% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 8
10th Percentile £475 £110 £200
25th Percentile - £281 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £375 £534
Median % change year-on-year +86.67% -29.74% +22.70%
75th Percentile - £588 £583
90th Percentile £850 £613 £649
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -5.00% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.60 £17.85 £17.50
% change year-on-year -18.21% +2.00% +7.16%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

NCSC
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing NCSC

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Malvern - 10 £700 - 1
Worcester - 10 £700 - 1
NCSC
West Midlands

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform