NCSC Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring NCSC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 175 142
Rank change year-on-year +19 -33 +86
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 3 9 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.072% 0.26% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.90% 1.74% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £63,125 £65,750
25th Percentile - £69,500 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £74,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.07% +13.73%
75th Percentile - £78,500 £76,875
90th Percentile - - £77,250
England median annual salary £69,384 £74,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year -6.24% +11.28% +2.31%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 335 517 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 8.01% 14.66% 12.64%
Number of salaries quoted 239 172 212
10th Percentile £30,370 £28,000 £24,775
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £29,568
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £73,833 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,180 £80,000 £77,250
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.69% +2.61%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in the East of England

NCSC
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NCSC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NCSC

NCSC
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +15 3 - - 1
NCSC
England

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DMZ
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Consultant
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 2 (66.67%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Blog
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
1 3 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) ISMS
1 3 (100.00%) Key Management
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) GRC
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 3 (100.00%) JSP 440
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS