NCSC Job Trends in Taunton

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring NCSC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Taunton 1.90% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.22% - -
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 - -
Somerset median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Taunton 8.57% 23.53% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile £31,791 £25,100 -
25th Percentile £36,872 £32,750 £14,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £38,500 £15,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +156.67% -50.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £45,438 £15,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £53,425 -
Somerset median annual salary £40,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% -18.18%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

NCSC job vacancy trend in Taunton

NCSC
Salary Trend in Taunton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing NCSC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing NCSC

NCSC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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