NCSC Jobs in the Midlands

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 200 295 287
Rank change year-on-year +95 -8 +39
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 60 26 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.86% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.75% 1.49% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 13 21 19
10th Percentile £48,738 £43,300 £50,271
25th Percentile - £51,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile - £64,148 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,350 £75,000 -
England median annual salary £74,249 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.23% -7.14% +14.30%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,264 1,741 2,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.13% 14.67% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 571 1,267 937
10th Percentile £28,822 £25,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60,625 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in the Midlands

NCSC
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for NCSC in the Midlands

NCSC
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for NCSC in the Midlands

NCSC
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +79 45 £75,000 +25.00% 11
East Midlands +42 15 - - 2
NCSC
England

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (13.33%) AWS
1 8 (13.33%) Azure
1 8 (13.33%) IaaS
1 8 (13.33%) PaaS
1 8 (13.33%) SaaS
2 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (11.67%) GitHub
2 7 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (38.33%) 5G
2 22 (36.67%) 3GPP
3 4 (6.67%) Firewall
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (5.00%) VPN
5 2 (3.33%) Internet
6 1 (1.67%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (1.67%) Modbus
6 1 (1.67%) MQTT
6 1 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (1.67%) DB2
2 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (36.67%) Telecoms
2 18 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (30.00%) Legal
3 17 (28.33%) Law
4 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Police
5 1 (1.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Senior
2 9 (15.00%) Automation Specialist
2 9 (15.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) Security Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 9 (15.00%) Tester
3 7 (11.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Security Tester
5 4 (6.67%) Developer
5 4 (6.67%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Penetration Tester
7 2 (3.33%) Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Malware Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Security Analyst
8 1 (1.67%) Principal Security Architect
8 1 (1.67%) Security Architect
8 1 (1.67%) Senior Architect
8 1 (1.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) ARM Templates
1 7 (11.67%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.33%) Cyberattack
2 8 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (11.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.67%) IoT
5 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.67%) NB-IoT
5 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.67%) PKI
5 1 (1.67%) SCADA
5 1 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (98.33%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (28.33%) Creative Thinking
2 17 (28.33%) Line Management
3 11 (18.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 9 (15.00%) Vulnerability Research
5 8 (13.33%) Compliance Management
5 8 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 8 (13.33%) DevOps
5 8 (13.33%) ITIL
5 8 (13.33%) Problem Management
6 7 (11.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (11.67%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (11.67%) DevSecOps
6 7 (11.67%) Functional Testing
6 7 (11.67%) Mentoring
6 7 (11.67%) Performance Analysis
6 7 (11.67%) Project Management
6 7 (11.67%) Release Management
6 7 (11.67%) Software Engineering
6 7 (11.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (3.33%) SQL
3 1 (1.67%) Bash
3 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (28.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.67%) CISA
3 9 (15.00%) CISSP
3 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (13.33%) CISM
4 8 (13.33%) GIAC
4 8 (13.33%) ISACA
4 8 (13.33%) SANS
5 7 (11.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.33%) Degree
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) GRC
1 8 (13.33%) JSP 440
2 5 (8.33%) NIST
3 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Ansible
1 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 8 (13.33%) Terraform
2 6 (10.00%) Nessus
3 3 (5.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (8.33%) Tenable
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) Cisco
3 3 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.67%) IBM
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle