NCSC Jobs in Scotland

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 151 271 214
Rank change year-on-year +120 -57 +20
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 10 9 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.34% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.85% 1.12% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 10 4 0
10th Percentile £60,750 £47,750 -
25th Percentile £65,125 £50,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £55,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.17% - -
75th Percentile - £63,400 -
90th Percentile - £64,570 -
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
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 540 807 709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.29% 12.07% 15.20%
Number of salaries quoted 116 340 208
10th Percentile £42,500 £22,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £33,750 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £53,691
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.87% +19.31%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,514 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in Scotland

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Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for NCSC in Scotland

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for NCSC in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +21 7 £95,000 - 3
Glasgow +181 2 £62,500 +12.61% 3
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (60.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Network Security
2 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) VPN
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Security Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security Lead
2 6 (60.00%) Lead
2 6 (60.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security
1 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 6 (60.00%) Network Design
1 6 (60.00%) Roadmaps
1 6 (60.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 6 (60.00%) Technology Transformation
1 6 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) Information Security
2 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Security Management
3 2 (20.00%) SOAR
3 2 (20.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CISM
1 6 (60.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) NIST
2 6 (60.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (10.00%) GRC
5 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
5 1 (10.00%) QA