NCSC Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring NCSC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.23% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.78% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £117,032 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £121,283 - -
75th Percentile £125,533 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £82,500 £42,085 -
% change year-on-year +96.03% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 144 88 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 8.15% 13.35% 10.57%
Number of salaries quoted 82 55 88
10th Percentile £31,900 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £32,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,725 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% +17.65% +44.07%
75th Percentile £76,805 £64,375 £60,938
90th Percentile £87,000 £83,738 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -21.74%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

NCSC
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing NCSC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing NCSC

NCSC
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Cambridge - 1 £121,283 -
NCSC
East of England

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DMZ
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) IT Director
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Blog
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (75.00%) PKI
1 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (75.00%) ISMS
2 3 (75.00%) Key Management
2 3 (75.00%) RBAC
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Use Case
2 3 (75.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 3 (75.00%) GRC
2 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 3 (75.00%) JSP 440
2 3 (75.00%) NIST
2 3 (75.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (25.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cerner
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle