NCSC Job Trends in Swansea

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring NCSC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.34% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
West Wales median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 25 3 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 8.62% 6.52% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24 3 12
10th Percentile £35,663 - -
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,486 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,664 £50,124 £45,404
Median % change year-on-year +3.07% +10.40% +0.90%
75th Percentile £67,188 £53,762 £52,500
90th Percentile £77,660 - -
West Wales median annual salary £51,664 £50,124 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.07% +11.39% -

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform