NCSC Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 581 533
Rank change year-on-year +311 -48 +135
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 331 175 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.90% 0.25% 0.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.29% 1.83% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47 123 109
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,874 £55,250 £50,402
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,783 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.46% -10.31% +25.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £70,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,500 £91,500
UK median annual salary £74,249 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.23% -7.14% +7.69%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,252 9,573 13,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.09% 13.65% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,039 6,369 4,751
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK 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 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 2025.

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 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
North of England +203 181 £60,000 -4.43% 18
North West +155 178 £57,521 -8.38% 14
Midlands +112 64 £75,000 +25.00% 15
South East +135 57 £61,000 -9.63% 20
West Midlands +78 49 £75,000 +25.00% 11
East Midlands +59 15 - - 3
East of England +66 13 £42,085 -35.25% 9
Scotland +129 8 £95,000 +71.17% 8
South West +63 8 £95,000 +38.69% 16
North East +40 2 £67,500 +7.51% 3
Yorkshire +66 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £85,000 - 5
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 2 (0.60%) IIS
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (7.85%) Azure
2 23 (6.95%) AWS
3 22 (6.65%) PaaS
4 20 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (3.63%) IaaS
6 11 (3.32%) SaaS
7 9 (2.72%) GitHub
7 9 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.60%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.30%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.30%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.85%) Firewall
2 24 (7.25%) 5G
3 23 (6.95%) 3GPP
4 17 (5.14%) VPN
5 12 (3.63%) Network Security
6 4 (1.21%) Internet
7 3 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (0.91%) DNS
8 2 (0.60%) DMZ
8 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.30%) LoRaWAN
9 1 (0.30%) Modbus
9 1 (0.30%) MQTT
9 1 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.91%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.60%) Power BI
3 1 (0.30%) DB2
3 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (2.72%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.30%) JIRA
General
1 237 (71.60%) Legal
2 236 (71.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 236 (71.30%) Law
3 26 (7.85%) Finance
4 24 (7.25%) Telecoms
5 12 (3.63%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.81%) Local Government
6 6 (1.81%) Social Skills
7 3 (0.91%) Police
8 1 (0.30%) Aviation
8 1 (0.30%) Military
8 1 (0.30%) Publishing
8 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (12.08%) Security Engineer
2 24 (7.25%) Lead
3 18 (5.44%) Senior
4 15 (4.53%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 13 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (3.93%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 12 (3.63%) Cloud Security Lead
6 12 (3.63%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 11 (3.32%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 10 (3.02%) Architect
8 10 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (2.72%) Automation Specialist
9 9 (2.72%) Tester
10 6 (1.81%) Analyst
10 6 (1.81%) Security Architect
10 6 (1.81%) Security Tester
11 4 (1.21%) Developer
11 4 (1.21%) Senior Security Engineer
11 4 (1.21%) Software Developer
12 3 (0.91%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.32%) YAML
2 9 (2.72%) ARM Templates
2 9 (2.72%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (0.60%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 237 (71.60%) Cyberattack
2 24 (7.25%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.32%) Security Posture
4 10 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.51%) PKI
6 3 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (0.91%) Operational Technology
6 3 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.60%) SCADA
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.30%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.30%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.30%) IoT
8 1 (0.30%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.30%) NB-IoT
8 1 (0.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.21%) Windows
1 4 (1.21%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.60%) Linux
3 1 (0.30%) Android
3 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (93.66%) Cybersecurity
2 246 (74.32%) Creative Thinking
3 237 (71.60%) Line Management
4 34 (10.27%) Mentoring
5 25 (7.55%) Threat Modelling
6 24 (7.25%) DevOps
7 22 (6.65%) DevSecOps
7 22 (6.65%) Vulnerability Management
8 20 (6.04%) Test Automation
9 17 (5.14%) Agile
9 17 (5.14%) CI/CD
9 17 (5.14%) SDLC
10 16 (4.83%) Cloud Security
10 16 (4.83%) ITIL
10 16 (4.83%) Roadmaps
11 15 (4.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (4.23%) Computer Science
12 14 (4.23%) Information Security
12 14 (4.23%) Strategic Roadmap
13 13 (3.93%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 13 (3.93%) PowerShell
2 5 (1.51%) Python
3 2 (0.60%) SQL
4 1 (0.30%) Bash
4 1 (0.30%) VB
4 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (10.57%) CISSP
2 31 (9.37%) CISM
3 27 (8.16%) Degree
4 24 (7.25%) Security Cleared
5 13 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.93%) GIAC
5 13 (3.93%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.32%) CISA
6 11 (3.32%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.42%) ISACA
7 8 (2.42%) SANS
8 6 (1.81%) CEH
9 4 (1.21%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.60%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (14.50%) NIST
2 34 (10.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.63%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (3.02%) GRC
5 9 (2.72%) JSP 440
6 6 (1.81%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.51%) GDPR
8 4 (1.21%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.60%) COBIT
9 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 10 (3.02%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.30%) NFS
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (3.63%) Nessus
2 10 (3.02%) Ansible
2 10 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.02%) Terraform
3 7 (2.11%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.30%) cPanel
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.72%) Tenable
3 4 (1.21%) Cisco
3 4 (1.21%) Qualys
4 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
5 2 (0.60%) McAfee
5 2 (0.60%) VMware
6 1 (0.30%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.30%) IBM
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle
6 1 (0.30%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.30%) Symantec