NCSC Job Trends in Edinburgh

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring NCSC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 65 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 8 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.74% 0.65% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.42% 4.72% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - £69,406 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £76,751 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £95,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% - -
75th Percentile £62,426 - -
90th Percentile £69,042 - -
Scotland median annual salary £53,400 £75,574 £52,500
% change year-on-year -29.34% +43.95% +24.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 95 106 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.83% 13.70% 14.40%
Number of salaries quoted 44 42 94
10th Percentile £25,650 £42,178 £25,750
25th Percentile £45,938 £54,545 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,374 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% +36.75% -9.16%
75th Percentile £84,823 £85,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £107,750 £95,000 £72,625
Scotland median annual salary £42,500 £62,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -32.00% +31.58% -9.52%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

NCSC
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing NCSC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing NCSC

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing NCSC in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Salary histogram for NCSC in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (37.50%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Run
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 7 (87.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Consultant
2 4 (50.00%) Security Consultant
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Security Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Resilience Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
3 4 (50.00%) Communications Security
3 4 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (50.00%) Information Security
3 4 (50.00%) Key Management
3 4 (50.00%) Open Source
3 4 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (50.00%) Security Management
3 4 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) Validation
3 4 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (25.00%) SDLC
5 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) NIST
1 4 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
1 3 (37.50%) Pega