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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 292 362
Rank change year-on-year +22 +70 +162
Contract jobs citing NCSC 46 52 99
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.36% 0.41%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.63% 2.65% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 40 72
10th Percentile £540 £499 £475
25th Percentile £570 £553 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £625 £694
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -9.91% +12.12%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £835
90th Percentile £700 - £921
UK median daily rate £645 £613 £681
% change year-on-year +5.31% -10.09% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.37
Median hourly rate - - £55.32
75th Percentile - - £59.28
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £83.31
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.97% +26.41%

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 1,750 1,961 3,057
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.91% 13.61% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,189 1,382 2,232
10th Percentile £312 £300 £343
25th Percentile £400 £409 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.48%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 63 81
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.82 £14.27 £21.00
Median hourly rate £33.61 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.43% -28.57% -6.29%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.16 £68.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £24.18 £38.00
% change year-on-year +24.07% -36.37% +42.06%

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

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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

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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 12 July 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

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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 2 (4.35%) Camunda
1 2 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) AWS
3 9 (19.57%) GitHub
4 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.52%) GCP
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.35%) PaaS
6 2 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) Network Security
2 8 (17.39%) BGP
2 8 (17.39%) Firewall
3 3 (6.52%) 4G
3 3 (6.52%) 5G
3 3 (6.52%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (4.35%) Ethernet
4 2 (4.35%) Internet
4 2 (4.35%) MQTT
5 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.52%) Burp Suite
2 3 (6.52%) GitLab
2 3 (6.52%) Metasploit
2 3 (6.52%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.35%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.17%) Git
General
1 14 (30.43%) Public Sector
2 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Finance
4 5 (10.87%) Military
5 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Electronics
5 4 (8.70%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.70%) Marketing
5 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.35%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (4.35%) Police
7 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.17%) Automotive
7 1 (2.17%) Legal
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Architect
2 8 (17.39%) Senior
3 7 (15.22%) Consultant
4 6 (13.04%) Security Architect
4 6 (13.04%) Security Consultant
4 6 (13.04%) Security Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Network Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Network Architect
6 4 (8.70%) Security Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Engineering Specialist
7 3 (6.52%) Lead
7 3 (6.52%) Technical Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Test Specialist
8 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 2 (4.35%) Java Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
1 2 (4.35%) Kafka
1 2 (4.35%) Keycloak
1 2 (4.35%) OpenJDK
1 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.17%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (2.17%) Core Data
2 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.17%) LDAP
2 1 (2.17%) OAuth
2 1 (2.17%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.17%) OpenID
2 1 (2.17%) RESTful
2 1 (2.17%) SAML
2 1 (2.17%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Onboarding
2 6 (13.04%) Operational Technology
3 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.70%) PKI
4 2 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (4.35%) Cyberattack
4 2 (4.35%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (4.35%) IoT
4 2 (4.35%) SCADA
5 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.17%) NHS
5 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Windows
2 3 (6.52%) Mac OS
2 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (30.43%) Cloud Security
2 14 (30.43%) Threat Modelling
3 10 (21.74%) DevSecOps
3 10 (21.74%) Risk Management
4 9 (19.57%) Agile
4 9 (19.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 8 (17.39%) Network Design
6 7 (15.22%) Information Security
6 7 (15.22%) Penetration Testing
7 6 (13.04%) OWASP
8 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making
8 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (10.87%) Security Architecture
8 5 (10.87%) Security Management
8 5 (10.87%) Security Testing
8 5 (10.87%) SIEM
8 5 (10.87%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (10.87%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.70%) Bash
1 4 (8.70%) Python
2 2 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (2.17%) Bicep
3 1 (2.17%) Objective-C
3 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (76.09%) Security Cleared
2 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 15 (32.61%) CISSP
4 14 (30.43%) DV Cleared
5 11 (23.91%) CISM
6 6 (13.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 5 (10.87%) Degree
8 4 (8.70%) CESG Certified Professional
8 4 (8.70%) OSCP
9 3 (6.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (6.52%) CHECK Team Member
9 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (6.52%) CREST Certified
9 3 (6.52%) Tigerscheme
10 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
10 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
11 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (36.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (17.39%) NIST
3 6 (13.04%) RMADS
4 4 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (8.70%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (4.35%) GDPR
5 2 (4.35%) GRC
5 2 (4.35%) JSP 440
6 1 (2.17%) COBIT
6 1 (2.17%) NIST 800
6 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (8.70%) Terraform
3 3 (6.52%) Check_MK
3 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.52%) Nmap
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.17%) Ansible
5 1 (2.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) VMware
2 4 (8.70%) SAP
3 3 (6.52%) Cisco
3 3 (6.52%) Fortinet
3 3 (6.52%) Juniper
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) Splunk
3 3 (6.52%) Veracode
4 2 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (4.35%) Saba