NCSC Job Trends in Somerset

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring NCSC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 0.22% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.53% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £73,500 - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile £86,500 - -
South West median annual salary £68,750 £95,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -27.63% +38.69% -8.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 79 30 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 8.81% 11.58% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 29 23 83
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,014 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,750 £31,443
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,500 - £70,350
South West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,396
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.74% -4.74%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in Somerset

NCSC
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing NCSC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing NCSC

NCSC
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Taunton - 2 £80,000 - 3
NCSC
South West

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ATL
2 1 (50.00%) COM
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) MFC
2 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Swagger
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Hydrography
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft