NCSC Jobs in the South East

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 361 323
Rank change year-on-year +126 -38 +108
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 58 29 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.62% 0.17% 0.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.16% 1.19% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 24
10th Percentile £59,800 £42,028 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.90% +18.85%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £67,000 - £75,700
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
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,834 2,438 2,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 19.52% 14.50% 18.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,083 1,611 1,278
10th Percentile £36,250 £24,500 £29,400
25th Percentile £50,394 £31,500 £40,612
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £46,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -9.80% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £81,250
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in the South East

NCSC
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for NCSC in the South East

NCSC
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Surrey +73 25 - - 2
Middlesex - 15 - - 1
Kent +42 10 - - 5
Hampshire +53 3 £61,000 -6.15% 9
Thames Valley +60 2 - - 4
Sussex +20 2 - - 1
West Sussex +33 1 £65,000 -3.70% 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 2
NCSC
England

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (25.86%) Azure
2 14 (24.14%) PaaS
3 13 (22.41%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.45%) IaaS
5 1 (1.72%) AWS
5 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Firewall
1 1 (1.72%) VSAN
General
1 40 (68.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 40 (68.97%) Law
1 40 (68.97%) Legal
2 13 (22.41%) Finance
3 1 (1.72%) Aviation
3 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.72%) Retail
3 1 (1.72%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (24.14%) Security Engineer
2 13 (22.41%) Lead
3 2 (3.45%) Analyst
3 2 (3.45%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (1.72%) Architect
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (1.72%) Commercial Lawyer
4 1 (1.72%) Consultant
4 1 (1.72%) Information Security Consultant
4 1 (1.72%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 1 (1.72%) Security Consultant
4 1 (1.72%) Senior
4 1 (1.72%) Senior Architect
4 1 (1.72%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (1.72%) Technical Architect
4 1 (1.72%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (70.69%) Cyberattack
2 13 (22.41%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (96.55%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (89.66%) Creative Thinking
3 40 (68.97%) Line Management
4 14 (24.14%) Agile
4 14 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 14 (24.14%) DevSecOps
4 14 (24.14%) OWASP
4 14 (24.14%) Security Testing
5 13 (22.41%) Application Security
5 13 (22.41%) Backlog Management
5 13 (22.41%) Coaching
5 13 (22.41%) Computer Science
5 13 (22.41%) DevOps
5 13 (22.41%) Mentoring
5 13 (22.41%) Product Management
5 13 (22.41%) Product Strategy
5 13 (22.41%) SDLC
5 13 (22.41%) Test Automation
5 13 (22.41%) Vulnerability Management
5 13 (22.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (24.14%) Degree
2 13 (22.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (22.41%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) CISSP
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) CASP
5 1 (1.72%) CEH
5 1 (1.72%) CISA
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.72%) CISM
5 1 (1.72%) GIAC
5 1 (1.72%) MCSE
5 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (29.31%) NIST
2 16 (27.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.17%) GDPR
4 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.72%) Cisco
2 1 (1.72%) Darktrace
2 1 (1.72%) McAfee
2 1 (1.72%) Palo Alto
2 1 (1.72%) VMware