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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 600 547
Rank change year-on-year +305 -53 +123
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 337 171 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.23% 0.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.16% 1.76% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 55 118 108
10th Percentile £49,500 £49,138 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £55,063 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £62,783 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.51% -8.68% +19.57%
75th Percentile £88,333 £70,250 £79,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £91,625
UK median annual salary £71,250 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.62% -7.14% +12.00%

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 6,527 9,734 11,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.57% 13.05% 20.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,072 6,357 4,480
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,169 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £32,500 £38,129
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.90%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £79,750
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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +187 189 £65,000 +5.88% 44
North West +137 181 £60,000 - 21
South East +116 58 £63,000 -6.67% 72
Midlands +116 57 £75,000 +25.00% 34
West Midlands +78 42 £75,000 +25.00% 18
East Midlands +56 15 - - 14
Scotland +120 11 £95,000 +71.17% 9
East of England +44 11 £42,085 -35.25% 31
South West +54 8 £95,000 +38.69% 36
North East +43 6 £65,000 +3.53% 7
Yorkshire +60 2 £55,000 +10.00% 16
Wales - 2 £75,574 - 10
Northern Ireland - 2 £76,092 - 6
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 (0.59%) IIS
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (8.01%) Azure
2 22 (6.53%) PaaS
3 21 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (5.93%) AWS
5 8 (2.37%) IaaS
6 7 (2.08%) SaaS
7 6 (1.78%) GitHub
7 6 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.59%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.30%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.30%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.30%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.42%) Network Security
2 23 (6.82%) 5G
3 22 (6.53%) 3GPP
4 20 (5.93%) Firewall
5 14 (4.15%) VPN
6 4 (1.19%) DNS
7 2 (0.59%) DMZ
7 2 (0.59%) Internet
7 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.30%) LAN
8 1 (0.30%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (0.30%) Modbus
8 1 (0.30%) MQTT
8 1 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.30%) WAN
8 1 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.59%) Power BI
3 1 (0.30%) DB2
3 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (1.78%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.30%) JIRA
General
1 249 (73.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 243 (72.11%) Legal
3 236 (70.03%) Law
4 33 (9.79%) Finance
5 23 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 17 (5.04%) Social Skills
7 8 (2.37%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.78%) Local Government
10 1 (0.30%) Aviation
10 1 (0.30%) Military
10 1 (0.30%) Police
10 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (11.87%) Security Engineer
2 33 (9.79%) Lead
3 22 (6.53%) Architect
4 19 (5.64%) Security Architect
5 16 (4.75%) Senior
6 13 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (3.86%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 12 (3.56%) Cloud Security Lead
7 12 (3.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 11 (3.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 10 (2.97%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 9 (2.67%) Automation Specialist
10 9 (2.67%) Tester
11 7 (2.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.08%) Principal Architect
11 7 (2.08%) Principal Security Architect
12 6 (1.78%) Lead Architect
12 6 (1.78%) Lead Security Architect
12 6 (1.78%) Security Tester
13 5 (1.48%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.45%) YAML
2 6 (1.78%) ARM Templates
2 6 (1.78%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (0.59%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 236 (70.03%) Cyberattack
2 16 (4.75%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.45%) Security Posture
4 7 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.89%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.59%) PKI
6 2 (0.59%) SCADA
7 1 (0.30%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.30%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.30%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.30%) IoT
7 1 (0.30%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.30%) NB-IoT
7 1 (0.30%) Replication
7 1 (0.30%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.48%) Windows
1 5 (1.48%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.59%) 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
1 316 (93.77%) Cybersecurity
2 250 (74.18%) Creative Thinking
3 237 (70.33%) Line Management
4 41 (12.17%) Mentoring
5 31 (9.20%) Threat Modelling
6 27 (8.01%) DevOps
6 27 (8.01%) Information Security
7 24 (7.12%) Vulnerability Management
8 23 (6.82%) Agile
8 23 (6.82%) DevSecOps
8 23 (6.82%) Risk Management
8 23 (6.82%) SDLC
9 21 (6.23%) Test Automation
10 20 (5.93%) CI/CD
11 18 (5.34%) Application Security
11 18 (5.34%) Roadmaps
11 18 (5.34%) Security Architecture
12 17 (5.04%) Coaching
12 17 (5.04%) OWASP
13 16 (4.75%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 17 (5.04%) PowerShell
2 5 (1.48%) Python
3 3 (0.89%) SQL
4 1 (0.30%) Bash
4 1 (0.30%) VB
4 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (8.90%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.72%) CISSP
3 25 (7.42%) CISM
3 25 (7.42%) Degree
4 22 (6.53%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (4.45%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.67%) GIAC
7 8 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.37%) CISA
8 5 (1.48%) ISACA
8 5 (1.48%) SANS
9 4 (1.19%) CEH
9 4 (1.19%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (17.80%) NIST
2 50 (14.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.08%) GRC
5 7 (2.08%) QA
6 6 (1.78%) JSP 440
7 4 (1.19%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.89%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.59%) GDPR
10 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 7 (2.08%) Docker
2 2 (0.59%) 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 Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.08%) Ansible
1 7 (2.08%) Kubernetes
1 7 (2.08%) Nessus
1 7 (2.08%) Terraform
2 4 (1.19%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.30%) cPanel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.78%) Tenable
3 4 (1.19%) Qualys
4 1 (0.30%) arcserve
4 1 (0.30%) Forcepoint
4 1 (0.30%) IBM
4 1 (0.30%) McAfee
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle
4 1 (0.30%) Sophos
4 1 (0.30%) Symantec
4 1 (0.30%) VMware