NCSC Job Trends in Plymouth

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Devon > Plymouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Plymouth requiring NCSC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Plymouth 0.67% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.88% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - -
75th Percentile £78,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Devon median annual salary £68,750 - £74,686

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Plymouth

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 Plymouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 17 10 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Plymouth 11.33% 9.80% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 14
10th Percentile - £42,200 £34,094
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,108 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +60.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £68,125 £65,272 £48,750
90th Percentile £78,000 - £62,100
Devon median annual salary £40,000 £60,822 £47,500
% change year-on-year -34.23% +28.05% +20.90%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in Plymouth

NCSC
Salary Trend in Plymouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Plymouth citing NCSC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Plymouth citing NCSC

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Plymouth 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Weaviate
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Faiss
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CUDA
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA