NCSC Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring NCSC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.056% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.51% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Buckinghamshire

NCSC falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 196 117 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.05% 10.91% 14.49%
Number of salaries quoted 134 42 165
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,525 £27,675
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £51,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,625 £71,250
South East median annual salary £53,663 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.43% +22.22% -11.19%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

NCSC
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing NCSC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing NCSC

NCSC
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes - 1 £62,500 - 5
NCSC
South East

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware