NCSC Jobs in the UK excluding London

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 539 672
Rank change year-on-year -36 +133 -138
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 174 226 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.82% 1.74% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 122 110 105
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £41,584
25th Percentile £56,563 £50,829 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £70,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +25.00% -8.20%
75th Percentile £70,250 £81,188 £71,250
90th Percentile £73,625 £91,375 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,548 12,989 11,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.63% 21.02% 16.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6,334 4,763 6,935
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NCSC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in the UK excluding London

NCSC
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NCSC in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for NCSC in the UK excluding London

NCSC
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing NCSC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for NCSC in the UK excluding London

NCSC
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
South West +12 58 £68,500 -8.67% 11
North of England +28 35 £62,783 -0.90% 3
South East -9 29 £67,500 -3.57% 7
Midlands +4 28 £60,000 -4.00% 1
West Midlands +28 21 £60,000 -4.00% 1
North West +6 20 £62,783 +39.52% 3
East of England +20 15 £65,000 -7.14% 4
North East - 11 £62,783 -
Scotland -67 9 £55,500 - 4
East Midlands -19 7 £61,439 -2.86%
Yorkshire +65 4 £55,000 -26.67%
NCSC
UK

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (0.57%) Confluence
1 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.37%) Azure
2 15 (8.62%) AWS
3 11 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.17%) IaaS
4 9 (5.17%) PaaS
4 9 (5.17%) SaaS
5 8 (4.60%) GitHub
5 8 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.87%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.72%) GCP
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.92%) Network Security
2 13 (7.47%) TCP/IP
3 11 (6.32%) Firewall
4 7 (4.02%) Cisco IPT
4 7 (4.02%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (2.30%) 5G
6 3 (1.72%) 3GPP
6 3 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.15%) DMZ
7 2 (1.15%) HTTP
7 2 (1.15%) NAS
8 1 (0.57%) 4G
8 1 (0.57%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.57%) SAN
8 1 (0.57%) SCTP
8 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (5.75%) JIRA
2 8 (4.60%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.72%) Git
4 2 (1.15%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (14.37%) Finance
2 15 (8.62%) Telecoms
3 14 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.90%) Social Skills
5 10 (5.75%) Aerospace
6 8 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.02%) Military
8 5 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.87%) Law
9 2 (1.15%) Legal
9 2 (1.15%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.15%) Publishing
9 2 (1.15%) Retail
10 1 (0.57%) Games
10 1 (0.57%) Local Government
10 1 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (22.41%) Security Manager
2 37 (21.26%) Consultant
3 35 (20.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 35 (20.11%) Security Consultant
4 31 (17.82%) Information Manager
4 31 (17.82%) Information Security Manager
4 31 (17.82%) Security Assurance Manager
5 30 (17.24%) Information Assurance Manager
6 21 (12.07%) Lead
7 19 (10.92%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 18 (10.34%) Senior
9 12 (6.90%) Analyst
9 12 (6.90%) Managing Consultant
9 12 (6.90%) Security Analyst
10 9 (5.17%) Product Owner
10 9 (5.17%) Senior Product Owner
11 8 (4.60%) Security Specialist
12 7 (4.02%) Security Engineer
12 7 (4.02%) Senior Consultant
12 7 (4.02%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.60%) ARM Templates
1 8 (4.60%) Azure Blueprints
2 7 (4.02%) ModSecurity
2 7 (4.02%) XML
3 6 (3.45%) JSON
3 6 (3.45%) JSON Schema
3 6 (3.45%) KML
3 6 (3.45%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.57%) EDI
4 1 (0.57%) REST
4 1 (0.57%) SOAP
4 1 (0.57%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 49 (28.16%) Management Information System
2 36 (20.69%) Cyberattack
3 26 (14.94%) Operational Technology
4 9 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.60%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.02%) Cyber Defence
6 7 (4.02%) SCADA
7 6 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.45%) NHS
7 6 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (2.87%) Industry 4.0
9 4 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.72%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.15%) CMDB
11 2 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.15%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.15%) Smartcard
12 1 (0.57%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.17%) Linux
2 5 (2.87%) Windows
3 3 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (82.18%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (43.68%) Risk Management
3 58 (33.33%) Information Security
4 49 (28.16%) Information Assurance
5 44 (25.29%) Mentoring
6 42 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 40 (22.99%) Security Management
8 29 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (16.09%) Security Architecture
10 26 (14.94%) Project Management
11 18 (10.34%) SIEM
12 17 (9.77%) Coaching
12 17 (9.77%) Data Protection
13 16 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (9.20%) Cyber Assurance
14 15 (8.62%) Project Delivery
15 14 (8.05%) DevOps
15 14 (8.05%) Incident Response
15 14 (8.05%) Security Operations
16 13 (7.47%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.72%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.15%) Python
3 1 (0.57%) Java
3 1 (0.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (57.47%) Security Cleared
2 78 (44.83%) SC Cleared
3 36 (20.69%) CISSP
4 33 (18.97%) CISM
5 28 (16.09%) Degree
6 14 (8.05%) CASP
7 13 (7.47%) CRISC
8 12 (6.90%) CEH
8 12 (6.90%) CESG Certified Professional
8 12 (6.90%) DV Cleared
9 10 (5.75%) CISA
10 8 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (4.02%) Master's Degree
12 5 (2.87%) PCI QSA
13 3 (1.72%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.72%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.72%) GIAC
14 2 (1.15%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (46.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 54 (31.03%) NIST
3 36 (20.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (13.79%) GDPR
5 20 (11.49%) GRC
6 19 (10.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (9.20%) NIST 800
8 14 (8.05%) PCI DSS
9 9 (5.17%) JSP 440
10 8 (4.60%) RMADS
11 3 (1.72%) SOC 2
12 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.57%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.57%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 8 (4.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.15%) vSphere
4 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (8.05%) Ansible
2 10 (5.75%) Terraform
3 8 (4.60%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.15%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.57%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.57%) QRadar
5 1 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (7.47%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.75%) Splunk
3 9 (5.17%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.87%) BT
5 2 (1.15%) BMC
5 2 (1.15%) Facebook
5 2 (1.15%) VMware
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco
6 1 (0.57%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.57%) Databricks
6 1 (0.57%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.57%) Juniper
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat