NCSC Jobs in the Thames Valley

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for NCSC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NCSC over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 221 264
Rank change year-on-year -22 +43 -56
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 7 43 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.10% 0.70% 0.089%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.73% 3.01% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £67,207 - £45,000
25th Percentile £70,173 £57,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,410 £60,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.68% -13.04% +6.15%
75th Percentile £83,353 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,341 £78,500 -
South East median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +11.61% -13.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

NCSC is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 958 1,427 1,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.21% 23.12% 17.61%
Number of salaries quoted 565 540 667
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £29,450
25th Percentile £35,500 £39,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £78,614 £84,100 £82,500
South East median annual salary £46,500 £50,669 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.23% -3.49% +5.00%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing NCSC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NCSC in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for NCSC in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing NCSC in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for NCSC in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
Berkshire +5 7 £78,410 +30.68%
NCSC
South East

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Head of Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) Head of Information
1 6 (85.71%) Head of Information Assurance
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Java Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Java Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cyber Defence
1 6 (85.71%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Budget Management
1 6 (85.71%) Budgeting
1 6 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (85.71%) Cyber Assurance
1 6 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (85.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 6 (85.71%) Decision-Making
1 6 (85.71%) Information Assurance
1 6 (85.71%) Information Security
1 6 (85.71%) Project Management
1 6 (85.71%) Resource Management
1 6 (85.71%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) EAI
2 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) GRC
1 6 (85.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (85.71%) NIST
1 6 (85.71%) NIST 800
2 1 (14.29%) Government Security Classifications
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat