National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 11 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 596 559 803
Rank change year-on-year -37 +244 +77
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 196 223 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.37% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.72% 2.62% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 96 190 257
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £56,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £76,053 £85,733 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,381 8,497 25,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.55% 14.03% 17.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,813 6,304 12,900
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,707 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +2.75%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NCSC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in the UK

NCSC
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for NCSC in the UK

NCSC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NCSC over the 6 months to 11 October 2024.

Salary histogram for NCSC in the UK

NCSC
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the UK over the 6 months to 11 October 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
England -63 175 £60,875 -13.04% 41
UK excluding London +8 149 £60,000 -7.69% 35
Work from Home -27 74 £62,500 -10.71% 21
West Midlands +23 68 £60,000 -29.41% 13
Midlands -2 68 £60,000 - 13
London -47 33 £74,425 -6.97% 8
North of England +14 27 £67,500 +33.32% 4
South East -45 22 £67,500 -8.47% 4
South West -40 17 £61,500 -5.38% 6
North West -21 13 £60,000 +79.10% 2
Yorkshire +39 10 £75,000 -21.05% 2
Scotland +8 9 £53,750 +27.22% 2
East of England -45 6 £67,125 -4.11% 5
North East - 4 - -

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.53%) Camunda
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 58 (29.59%) Azure
2 35 (17.86%) AWS
3 29 (14.80%) IaaS
3 29 (14.80%) PaaS
4 22 (11.22%) SaaS
5 21 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (9.18%) Entra ID
7 15 (7.65%) GitHub
7 15 (7.65%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (3.06%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.53%) GCP
11 2 (1.02%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.02%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.51%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.51%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 32 (16.33%) Firewall
2 30 (15.31%) 3GPP
3 18 (9.18%) 5G
4 17 (8.67%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (5.61%) Internet
5 11 (5.61%) Wireless
6 8 (4.08%) DMZ
7 7 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
7 7 (3.57%) TCP/IP
7 7 (3.57%) VPN
8 6 (3.06%) BGP
8 6 (3.06%) Cisco IPT
8 6 (3.06%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (3.06%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (3.06%) LAN
8 6 (3.06%) MPLS
8 6 (3.06%) Unified Communications
8 6 (3.06%) VLAN
8 6 (3.06%) WAN
8 6 (3.06%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.06%) Data Lake
1 6 (3.06%) MySQL
2 5 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.55%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (7.65%) SonarQube
2 5 (2.55%) Git
3 3 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.53%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.02%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.51%) JIRA
General
1 46 (23.47%) Telecoms
2 38 (19.39%) Public Sector
3 23 (11.73%) Social Skills
4 22 (11.22%) Finance
5 14 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.57%) Marketing
8 7 (3.57%) Military
9 6 (3.06%) Retail
10 4 (2.04%) Avionics
10 4 (2.04%) Electronics
10 4 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.04%) Police
11 3 (1.53%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.53%) Legal
12 2 (1.02%) Automotive
12 2 (1.02%) Aviation
12 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (21.94%) Analyst
2 32 (16.33%) Architect
3 24 (12.24%) Functional Analyst
4 21 (10.71%) Consultant
5 18 (9.18%) Network Engineer
5 18 (9.18%) Senior
6 17 (8.67%) Security Manager
7 15 (7.65%) Technical Architect
8 14 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (7.14%) Lead
8 14 (7.14%) Security Analyst
9 13 (6.63%) Security Consultant
10 12 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (6.12%) Security Engineer
11 11 (5.61%) Security Architect
12 10 (5.10%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 9 (4.59%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 9 (4.59%) IT Architect
13 9 (4.59%) Security Specialist
14 8 (4.08%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.65%) ARM Templates
1 15 (7.65%) Azure Blueprints
2 9 (4.59%) Spring
3 7 (3.57%) ModSecurity
4 5 (2.55%) .NET
4 5 (2.55%) .NET Framework
4 5 (2.55%) ASP.NET
4 5 (2.55%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (2.55%) CSS
4 5 (2.55%) Entity Framework
4 5 (2.55%) HTML
4 5 (2.55%) Spring MVC
5 4 (2.04%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.53%) Kafka
6 3 (1.53%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.51%) React
7 1 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (26.53%) Management Information System
2 24 (12.24%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.12%) Data Centre
4 10 (5.10%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (4.59%) Operational Technology
6 8 (4.08%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.57%) Client/Server
7 7 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (3.06%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (3.06%) Cyberattack
8 6 (3.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (3.06%) Freedom of Information
8 6 (3.06%) PKI
8 6 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.04%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.53%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.02%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.02%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.12%) Windows
2 7 (3.57%) Android
2 7 (3.57%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.55%) Linux
4 3 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.02%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (77.04%) Cybersecurity
2 84 (42.86%) Information Security
3 55 (28.06%) Risk Management
4 36 (18.37%) Decision-Making
5 31 (15.82%) DevOps
6 29 (14.80%) Mentoring
6 29 (14.80%) Test Strategy
7 25 (12.76%) DevSecOps
7 25 (12.76%) Roadmaps
7 25 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 25 (12.76%) Test Automation
8 24 (12.24%) Cloud Security
9 23 (11.73%) Security Architecture
9 23 (11.73%) SIEM
10 22 (11.22%) Security Management
10 22 (11.22%) Software Engineering
11 21 (10.71%) Data Protection
12 20 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (9.18%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.55%) C#
1 5 (2.55%) JavaScript
2 4 (2.04%) Java
3 1 (0.51%) SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (38.27%) Security Cleared
2 48 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 37 (18.88%) CISSP
4 32 (16.33%) CISM
5 26 (13.27%) Degree
6 23 (11.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (7.65%) CISA
8 11 (5.61%) GIAC
9 10 (5.10%) DV Cleared
10 8 (4.08%) SANS
11 7 (3.57%) Azure Certification
12 6 (3.06%) CASP
12 6 (3.06%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (2.55%) ISACA
13 5 (2.55%) Master's Degree
14 4 (2.04%) CEH
14 4 (2.04%) CRISC
14 4 (2.04%) GCIA
14 4 (2.04%) GCIH
14 4 (2.04%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (46.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 52 (26.53%) NIST
3 39 (19.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 25 (12.76%) QA
5 19 (9.69%) GDPR
6 14 (7.14%) GRC
7 13 (6.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 12 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (4.08%) ISO 22301
9 8 (4.08%) SOC 2
10 7 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 7 (3.57%) JSP 440
10 7 (3.57%) PCI DSS
11 6 (3.06%) NIST 800
12 5 (2.55%) RMADS
13 4 (2.04%) ISO 31000
13 4 (2.04%) ISO 9001
14 3 (1.53%) COBIT
14 3 (1.53%) ISO 14001
15 2 (1.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 17 (8.67%) Docker
2 6 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.02%) LXC
4 1 (0.51%) NFS
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (10.20%) Terraform
2 18 (9.18%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.65%) Ansible
4 9 (4.59%) Nessus
5 4 (2.04%) McAfee ePO
5 4 (2.04%) QRadar
6 2 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.51%) cPanel
Vendors
1 26 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.06%) CheckPoint
2 6 (3.06%) Cisco
2 6 (3.06%) Palo Alto
3 4 (2.04%) Darktrace
3 4 (2.04%) McAfee
3 4 (2.04%) SAP
4 2 (1.02%) Dell
4 2 (1.02%) IBM
4 2 (1.02%) NetApp
4 2 (1.02%) SolarWinds
4 2 (1.02%) VMware
5 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow