NCSC Jobs in England

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring NCSC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NCSC over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 603 581
Rank change year-on-year +262 -22 +311
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 403 230 383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.83% 0.27% 0.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.02% 1.93% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 59 179 217
10th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,087 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,249 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.23% -7.14% +14.30%
75th Percentile £81,875 £71,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,550 £96,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +9.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,026 11,931 17,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.43% 13.92% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4,280 8,363 8,039
10th Percentile £30,580 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing NCSC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in England

NCSC
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NCSC in England.

Salary trend for NCSC in England

NCSC
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NCSC in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NCSC in England

NCSC
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. 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
North of England +180 184 £65,000 +3.53% 17
North West +124 179 £60,000 -2.27% 5
London +130 76 £72,500 +3.57% 39
Midlands +95 60 £75,000 +25.00% 16
South East +130 58 £63,000 -6.67% 27
West Midlands +79 45 £75,000 +25.00% 11
East Midlands +42 15 - - 2
East of England +44 13 £42,085 -35.25% 2
South West +57 8 £95,000 +38.69% 17
North East +37 4 £67,500 +7.51% 8
Yorkshire +73 1 - - 4
NCSC
UK

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (0.50%) IIS
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (8.93%) Azure
2 25 (6.20%) PaaS
3 23 (5.71%) AWS
3 23 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (2.48%) IaaS
4 10 (2.48%) SaaS
5 7 (1.74%) GitHub
5 7 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.24%) GCP
8 4 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.74%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.74%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.50%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.50%) Serverless
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.25%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.70%) Firewall
2 23 (5.71%) 5G
3 22 (5.46%) 3GPP
4 11 (2.73%) VPN
5 10 (2.48%) Network Security
6 7 (1.74%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (1.24%) IPsec
8 5 (1.24%) SSL
9 3 (0.74%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (0.74%) DNS
10 2 (0.50%) DMZ
10 2 (0.50%) Internet
11 1 (0.25%) LoRaWAN
11 1 (0.25%) Modbus
11 1 (0.25%) MQTT
11 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.24%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.74%) MySQL
2 3 (0.74%) Power BI
3 2 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.25%) DB2
4 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (1.74%) SonarQube
2 2 (0.50%) Git
3 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.25%) GitLab
3 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.25%) JIRA
3 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.25%) Postman
3 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
General
1 292 (72.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 289 (71.71%) Legal
3 287 (71.22%) Law
4 32 (7.94%) Finance
5 24 (5.96%) Telecoms
6 19 (4.71%) Social Skills
7 16 (3.97%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.49%) Local Government
9 5 (1.24%) Games
9 5 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.25%) Aviation
12 1 (0.25%) Military
12 1 (0.25%) Police
12 1 (0.25%) Publishing
12 1 (0.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (8.93%) Security Engineer
2 24 (5.96%) Architect
3 21 (5.21%) Lead
4 19 (4.71%) Senior
5 17 (4.22%) Security Architect
6 14 (3.47%) Analyst
7 13 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 11 (2.73%) Security Analyst
8 11 (2.73%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 10 (2.48%) Tester
10 9 (2.23%) Automation Specialist
11 8 (1.99%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (1.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (1.74%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 7 (1.74%) Security Tester
13 6 (1.49%) Cloud Security Lead
13 6 (1.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 6 (1.49%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 5 (1.24%) Principal Architect
14 5 (1.24%) Principal Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.97%) YAML
2 7 (1.74%) ARM Templates
2 7 (1.74%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (0.50%) CSS
3 2 (0.50%) HTML
3 2 (0.50%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.50%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.50%) Spring
3 2 (0.50%) Spring MVC
4 1 (0.25%) .NET
4 1 (0.25%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.25%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.25%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.25%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.25%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.25%) JSON
4 1 (0.25%) Middleware
4 1 (0.25%) OAuth
4 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 289 (71.71%) Cyberattack
2 19 (4.71%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.22%) Security Posture
4 8 (1.99%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (0.99%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.74%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.74%) PKI
9 2 (0.50%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.50%) IoT
9 2 (0.50%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.50%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.25%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.25%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.25%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 1 (0.25%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.25%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.99%) Windows
1 4 (0.99%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.50%) Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Android
3 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (93.80%) Cybersecurity
2 299 (74.19%) Creative Thinking
3 286 (70.97%) Line Management
4 30 (7.44%) Mentoring
5 28 (6.95%) DevOps
6 27 (6.70%) DevSecOps
7 26 (6.45%) Agile
7 26 (6.45%) CI/CD
7 26 (6.45%) Threat Modelling
7 26 (6.45%) Vulnerability Management
8 25 (6.20%) Information Security
8 25 (6.20%) SDLC
8 25 (6.20%) Test Automation
9 24 (5.96%) Security Architecture
10 22 (5.46%) Application Security
11 20 (4.96%) ITIL
11 20 (4.96%) Security Testing
12 19 (4.71%) OWASP
13 18 (4.47%) Risk Management
14 17 (4.22%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 18 (4.47%) PowerShell
2 7 (1.74%) Python
3 3 (0.74%) Bash
3 3 (0.74%) SQL
4 2 (0.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.25%) C#
5 1 (0.25%) Java
5 1 (0.25%) VB
5 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (7.94%) CISSP
1 32 (7.94%) Security Cleared
2 29 (7.20%) Degree
3 28 (6.95%) CISM
4 22 (5.46%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.47%) GIAC
6 17 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.97%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.73%) CISA
9 9 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.99%) ISACA
10 8 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.99%) SANS
11 7 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (1.49%) CREST Certified
12 6 (1.49%) MCSA
13 5 (1.24%) CEH
13 5 (1.24%) CompTIA CySA+
14 4 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.99%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (14.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (13.65%) NIST
3 19 (4.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (2.48%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.23%) GRC
5 9 (2.23%) JSP 440
6 8 (1.99%) GDPR
7 6 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.49%) QA
8 4 (0.99%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.74%) COBIT
9 3 (0.74%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 9 (2.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.25%) NFS
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (3.23%) Nessus
2 10 (2.48%) Ansible
2 10 (2.48%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.48%) Terraform
3 7 (1.74%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.25%) cPanel
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (9.93%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.23%) Tenable
3 4 (0.99%) Cisco
3 4 (0.99%) Qualys
3 4 (0.99%) Splunk
4 3 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (0.74%) Fortinet
4 3 (0.74%) Palo Alto
5 2 (0.50%) FireEye
5 2 (0.50%) McAfee
5 2 (0.50%) VMware
6 1 (0.25%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.25%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.25%) IBM
6 1 (0.25%) Netskope
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle
6 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.25%) Symantec
6 1 (0.25%) Zscaler