NCSC Job Trends in Northamptonshire

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire citing NCSC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	77	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing NCSC	1	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire	0.073%	-	-
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	0.84%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	0	0	0
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	-	-	-
East Midlands median annual salary	£90,000	£70,000	-
% change year-on-year	+28.57%	-	-

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northamptonshire

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 citing quality assurance or compliance skills in Northamptonshire.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing quality assurance or compliance skills	119	53	69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire	8.63%	15.87%	8.41%
Number of salaries quoted	78	30	15
10^th Percentile	-	-	£27,750
25^th Percentile	£28,500	£31,250	£30,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£40,000	£35,000	£47,500
Median % change year-on-year	+14.29%	-26.32%	-9.52%
75^th Percentile	£56,250	£48,750	£56,750
90^th Percentile	£68,875	£73,965	£62,650
East Midlands median annual salary	£42,500	£35,250	£42,500
% change year-on-year	+20.57%	-17.06%	-21.30%

NCSC Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 10 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Towcester	-	1	-	-
NCSC East Midlands

NCSC Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire

For the 6 months to 10 November 2026, job vacancies citing NCSC also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Northamptonshire region citing NCSC.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CISA	100.0%	1
1	CISM	100.0%	1
1	CISSP	100.0%	1
1	Cloud Security	100.0%	1
1	Continuous Improvement	100.0%	1
1	Cybersecurity	100.0%	1
1	Data Loss Prevention	100.0%	1
1	Data Security	100.0%	1
1	Identity Access Management	100.0%	1
1	Incident Response	100.0%	1
1	Information Security	100.0%	1
1	ISO/IEC 27001	100.0%	1
1	Mentoring	100.0%	1
1	Multi-Factor Authentication	100.0%	1
1	NIST	100.0%	1
1	Root Cause Analysis	100.0%	1
1	Security Architecture	100.0%	1
1	Security Hardening	100.0%	1
1	Security Operations	100.0%	1
1	SIEM	100.0%	1
1	Strategic Thinking	100.0%	1
1	Threat Detection	100.0%	1
1	Vulnerability Management	100.0%	1
1	Vulnerability Remediation	100.0%	1
1	Workflow	100.0%	1

NCSC Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Quality Assurance & Compliance

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	ISO/IEC 27001	100.0%	1
1	NIST	100.0%	1