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

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 589 537
Rank change year-on-year +295 -52 +137
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 335 172 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.24% 0.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.03% 1.78% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 50 120 111
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,713 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,313 £55,750 £52,305
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,783 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.46% -10.31% +21.74%
75th Percentile £88,333 £70,250 £80,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -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 6,660 9,666 12,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.00% 13.61% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,184 6,368 4,620
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,750 £28,500
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% +4.39%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £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 13 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 13 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 +178 184 £65,000 +3.53% 17
North West +128 179 £60,000 -2.27% 5
Midlands +106 61 £75,000 +25.00% 16
South East +128 58 £63,000 -6.67% 26
West Midlands +74 46 £75,000 +25.00% 11
East Midlands +43 15 - - 2
East of England +38 13 £42,085 -35.25% 2
Scotland +125 10 £95,000 +71.17% 7
South West +69 8 £95,000 +38.69% 17
North East +38 4 £67,500 +7.51% 8
Yorkshire +70 1 - - 4
Wales - 1 £81,764 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £82,801 - 8
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 27 (8.06%) Azure
2 23 (6.87%) PaaS
3 22 (6.57%) AWS
4 21 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (3.28%) IaaS
6 10 (2.99%) SaaS
7 8 (2.39%) GitHub
7 8 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.49%) 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 24 (7.16%) Firewall
2 23 (6.87%) 5G
3 22 (6.57%) 3GPP
4 18 (5.37%) Network Security
5 17 (5.07%) VPN
6 3 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (0.90%) DNS
7 2 (0.60%) DMZ
7 2 (0.60%) Internet
7 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
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%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.90%) 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 8 (2.39%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.30%) JIRA
General
1 242 (72.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 242 (72.24%) Legal
2 236 (70.45%) Law
3 32 (9.55%) Finance
4 23 (6.87%) Telecoms
5 11 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.99%) Social Skills
7 6 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (1.79%) Local Government
8 1 (0.30%) Aviation
8 1 (0.30%) Military
8 1 (0.30%) Police
8 1 (0.30%) Publishing
8 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (12.24%) Security Engineer
2 25 (7.46%) Lead
3 17 (5.07%) Architect
3 17 (5.07%) Senior
4 13 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (3.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 13 (3.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 13 (3.88%) Security Architect
5 12 (3.58%) Cloud Security Lead
5 12 (3.58%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 11 (3.28%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 9 (2.69%) Automation Specialist
7 9 (2.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (2.69%) Tester
8 6 (1.79%) Analyst
8 6 (1.79%) Principal Architect
8 6 (1.79%) Principal Security Architect
8 6 (1.79%) Security Tester
9 4 (1.19%) Developer
9 4 (1.19%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.88%) YAML
2 8 (2.39%) ARM Templates
2 8 (2.39%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (0.60%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 237 (70.75%) Cyberattack
2 21 (6.27%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.88%) Security Posture
4 9 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (0.90%) Operational Technology
5 3 (0.90%) PKI
6 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (0.60%) 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 4 (1.19%) Windows
1 4 (1.19%) 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
1 313 (93.43%) Cybersecurity
2 248 (74.03%) Creative Thinking
3 237 (70.75%) Line Management
4 35 (10.45%) Mentoring
5 28 (8.36%) Threat Modelling
6 26 (7.76%) DevOps
7 25 (7.46%) Vulnerability Management
8 24 (7.16%) DevSecOps
9 21 (6.27%) Information Security
9 21 (6.27%) Test Automation
10 20 (5.97%) Agile
10 20 (5.97%) SDLC
11 19 (5.67%) CI/CD
12 17 (5.07%) Roadmaps
13 16 (4.78%) Application Security
13 16 (4.78%) Cloud Security
13 16 (4.78%) Computer Science
13 16 (4.78%) Risk Management
14 15 (4.48%) ITIL
14 15 (4.48%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.48%) PowerShell
2 5 (1.49%) Python
3 2 (0.60%) SQL
4 1 (0.30%) Bash
4 1 (0.30%) VB
4 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (9.55%) CISSP
2 30 (8.96%) CISM
3 29 (8.66%) Security Cleared
4 26 (7.76%) Degree
5 19 (5.67%) SC Cleared
6 15 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.88%) GIAC
7 13 (3.88%) Master's Degree
8 11 (3.28%) CISA
9 10 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (2.39%) ISACA
10 8 (2.39%) SANS
11 5 (1.49%) CEH
12 4 (1.19%) CREST Certified
12 4 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.60%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (16.12%) NIST
2 42 (12.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.58%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.99%) GRC
5 9 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.69%) JSP 440
6 6 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.79%) QA
7 5 (1.49%) GDPR
8 4 (1.19%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.90%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.60%) COBIT
10 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 9 (2.69%) 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 10 (2.99%) Nessus
2 9 (2.69%) Ansible
2 9 (2.69%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.69%) Terraform
3 7 (2.09%) 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 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.69%) Tenable
3 4 (1.19%) Cisco
3 4 (1.19%) Qualys
4 3 (0.90%) 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