NCSC Job Trends in London

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London 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 332 394 370
Rank change year-on-year +62 -24 +182
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 42 34 73
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.30% 0.22% 0.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.71% 1.30% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18 14 63
10th Percentile £70,628 £46,300 £52,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £50,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,500 £74,425 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +6.32% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,406 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £85,850 £81,225 £95,000
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
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,456 2,618 2,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.41% 16.88% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,592 1,240 2,182
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £36,860
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,514 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £118,750 £112,500
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 London

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in London

NCSC
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing NCSC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing NCSC

NCSC
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing NCSC in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for NCSC in London

NCSC
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the London 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
Central London +32 5 - - 17
West London - 3 - - 11
NCSC
England

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (80.95%) Azure
2 15 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
2 15 (35.71%) PaaS
3 12 (28.57%) AWS
3 12 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 9 (21.43%) Google Workspace
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.38%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.38%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) Broadband
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) Weaviate
General
1 9 (21.43%) Finance
2 8 (19.05%) Law
2 8 (19.05%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Lead
2 11 (26.19%) Security Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Architect
3 8 (19.05%) Senior
4 6 (14.29%) Security Architect
5 5 (11.90%) Consultant
6 4 (9.52%) Security Consultant
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Security Consultant
7 3 (7.14%) Developer
7 3 (7.14%) IAM Developer
7 3 (7.14%) IT Manager
7 3 (7.14%) IT Security Manager
7 3 (7.14%) Security Manager
7 3 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Applications Manager
8 2 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Systems Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Head of IT
9 1 (2.38%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (40.48%) YAML
2 8 (19.05%) GraphQL
2 8 (19.05%) JSON
2 8 (19.05%) LDAP
2 8 (19.05%) OAuth
2 8 (19.05%) OpenID
2 8 (19.05%) REST
2 8 (19.05%) SAML
2 8 (19.05%) SOAP
3 1 (2.38%) Django
3 1 (2.38%) Faiss
3 1 (2.38%) LangChain
3 1 (2.38%) LangGraph
3 1 (2.38%) Ollama
3 1 (2.38%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 17 (40.48%) Security Posture
2 9 (21.43%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (19.05%) Cyberattack
4 6 (14.29%) Cloud Native
5 5 (11.90%) PKI
6 4 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (2.38%) CUDA
8 1 (2.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
8 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
8 1 (2.38%) SCADA
8 1 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (73.81%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (57.14%) Threat Modelling
3 23 (54.76%) Mentoring
4 18 (42.86%) Agile
4 18 (42.86%) Cloud Security
5 17 (40.48%) Application Security
5 17 (40.48%) CI/CD
5 17 (40.48%) OWASP
6 16 (38.10%) DevOps
6 16 (38.10%) SDLC
6 16 (38.10%) Security Testing
6 16 (38.10%) Test Automation
7 15 (35.71%) DevSecOps
7 15 (35.71%) Product Strategy
8 12 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
9 10 (23.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 9 (21.43%) Backlog Management
10 9 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
10 9 (21.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 25 (59.52%) PowerShell
2 9 (21.43%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) Bash
3 8 (19.05%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) Degree
2 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (21.43%) Master's Degree
4 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
5 5 (11.90%) CISM
5 5 (11.90%) CISSP
6 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Certification
6 4 (9.52%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (7.14%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.38%) CISMP
8 1 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (92.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (88.10%) NIST
3 6 (14.29%) GDPR
4 4 (9.52%) PCI DSS
5 3 (7.14%) GRC
6 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (2.38%) JSP 440
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco
3 1 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) Juniper
3 1 (2.38%) NVIDIA