NCSC Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring NCSC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NCSC over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 244 382
Rank change year-on-year -22 +138 +143
Contract jobs citing NCSC 38 101 95
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.66% 0.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.55% 4.51% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 55 66
10th Percentile £555 £500 £474
25th Percentile £566 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £718
90th Percentile £740 £738 £843
UK median daily rate £630 £619 £675
% change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% +10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - £51.37
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £55.32
75th Percentile £92.50 - £59.28
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £78.36 £81.71 £72.98
% change year-on-year -4.09% +11.96% +17.78%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,488 2,240 3,140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.02% 14.60% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,532 2,292
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 79 63
10th Percentile £17.98 £12.75 £18.54
25th Percentile £23.13 £14.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £22.87 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.53% -46.81% -2.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £87.15 £65.00 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

NCSC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing NCSC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NCSC trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

NCSC
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NCSC.

NCSC daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NCSC
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing NCSC over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

NCSC daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NCSC
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NCSC.

NCSC hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (13.16%) nginx
1 5 (13.16%) Traefik
2 2 (5.26%) Camunda
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (42.11%) AWS
2 10 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (23.68%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (23.68%) AWS Fargate
3 9 (23.68%) Azure
4 8 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (21.05%) PaaS
4 8 (21.05%) SaaS
5 7 (18.42%) Entra ID
5 7 (18.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (15.79%) IaaS
7 4 (10.53%) GitHub
8 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.63%) GCP
9 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (26.32%) TCP/IP
2 9 (23.68%) DNS
3 7 (18.42%) VSAN
4 6 (15.79%) Firewall
5 3 (7.89%) BGP
5 3 (7.89%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (7.89%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (7.89%) MPLS
5 3 (7.89%) Network Security
5 3 (7.89%) NGFW
5 3 (7.89%) OSPF
5 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
5 3 (7.89%) VPN
5 3 (7.89%) WAN
6 2 (5.26%) Ethernet
6 2 (5.26%) Internet
6 2 (5.26%) MQTT
6 2 (5.26%) VLAN
7 1 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 8 (21.05%) GitLab
3 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.63%) Git
General
1 14 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Military
5 1 (2.63%) Automotive
5 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Finance
5 1 (2.63%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Architect
2 16 (42.11%) Senior
3 10 (26.32%) Technical Architect
4 8 (21.05%) Senior Architect
4 8 (21.05%) Senior Technical Architect
5 6 (15.79%) Security Architect
5 6 (15.79%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (10.53%) Consultant
6 4 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Lead
7 3 (7.89%) Security Consultant
7 3 (7.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 2 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Security Auditor
8 2 (5.26%) Security Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) Kafka
1 9 (23.68%) Keycloak
2 7 (18.42%) cloud-init
3 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.26%) OpenJDK
3 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.63%) Core Data
4 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.63%) LDAP
4 1 (2.63%) OAuth
4 1 (2.63%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.63%) OpenID
4 1 (2.63%) RESTful
4 1 (2.63%) SAML
4 1 (2.63%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) PKI
2 8 (21.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (18.42%) Operational Technology
4 5 (13.16%) Management Information System
5 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
6 2 (5.26%) Cyberattack
6 2 (5.26%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 2 (5.26%) IoT
6 2 (5.26%) NHS
6 2 (5.26%) SCADA
6 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Linux
2 7 (18.42%) CentOS
2 7 (18.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (18.42%) Unix
3 3 (7.89%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.26%) Windows
5 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) CI/CD
2 16 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (39.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (34.21%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (28.95%) Cloud Security
5 11 (28.95%) DevSecOps
5 11 (28.95%) TOGAF
6 9 (23.68%) Containerisation
7 8 (21.05%) DevOps
7 8 (21.05%) Microservices
8 7 (18.42%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 7 (18.42%) Identity Management
8 7 (18.42%) Observability
8 7 (18.42%) Secrets Management
8 7 (18.42%) Static Application Security Testing
8 7 (18.42%) Threat Modelling
9 6 (15.79%) Information Security
9 6 (15.79%) ITIL
9 6 (15.79%) Use Case
9 6 (15.79%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) Bash
1 8 (21.05%) Python
2 7 (18.42%) Go
3 2 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (2.63%) Objective-C
4 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 23 (60.53%) SC Cleared
3 9 (23.68%) AWS Certification
4 7 (18.42%) DV Cleared
4 7 (18.42%) MCSE
4 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (18.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (15.79%) Degree
6 5 (13.16%) CISSP
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.26%) CISM
7 2 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.63%) CCNP
8 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (42.11%) NIST
2 9 (23.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (18.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (7.89%) GRC
5 2 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (5.26%) NIST 800
6 1 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (2.63%) JSP 440
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (23.68%) VMware NSX
2 2 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (2.63%) Firmware
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Terraform
2 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
3 8 (21.05%) Grafana
3 8 (21.05%) Prometheus
4 7 (18.42%) Consul
4 7 (18.42%) Istio
4 7 (18.42%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (18.42%) linkerd
4 7 (18.42%) Packer
4 7 (18.42%) Rancher
4 7 (18.42%) ZABBIX
5 5 (13.16%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.63%) Ansible
6 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Cisco
1 9 (23.68%) Palo Alto
1 9 (23.68%) VMware
2 7 (18.42%) Okta
2 7 (18.42%) Splunk
3 5 (13.16%) Apple
3 5 (13.16%) ESET
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft