Hybrid/Remote NCSC Job Trends

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring NCSC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 151 428
Rank change year-on-year -208 +277 -10
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 84 354 81
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 2.14% 0.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.17% 11.80% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 57 63 60
10th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,384 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.09% +15.64% -17.24%
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,875 £69,920
90th Percentile £84,500 £88,333 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £69,384 £67,328
% change year-on-year +8.09% +3.05% -3.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,873 3,000 3,331
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.64% 18.15% 13.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,467 1,700 2,207
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,589 £60,000 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £92,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NCSC and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

NCSC job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NCSC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NCSC

NCSC
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NCSC over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

NCSC salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.19%) Apache
1 1 (1.19%) Confluence
1 1 (1.19%) Drupal
1 1 (1.19%) IIS
1 1 (1.19%) nginx
1 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 36 (42.86%) Azure
2 34 (40.48%) AWS
3 22 (26.19%) GCP
4 4 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.57%) Slack
6 2 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (1.19%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.19%) GitHub
7 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (28.57%) Network Security
2 5 (5.95%) DMZ
2 5 (5.95%) Firewall
3 3 (3.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.19%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (1.19%) Redis
2 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Gatling
1 1 (1.19%) JIRA
1 1 (1.19%) JMeter
1 1 (1.19%) Vagrant
General
1 51 (60.71%) Public Sector
2 21 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (20.24%) Social Skills
4 15 (17.86%) Law
5 13 (15.48%) Finance
6 11 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (11.90%) Legal
8 7 (8.33%) Telecoms
9 6 (7.14%) Aerospace
10 5 (5.95%) Aviation
11 4 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (27.38%) Architect
2 21 (25.00%) Consultant
2 21 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 17 (20.24%) Auditor
3 17 (20.24%) Senior
4 15 (17.86%) Security Consultant
5 12 (14.29%) Security Auditor
5 12 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
6 11 (13.10%) Senior Security Consultant
7 8 (9.52%) Lead
8 7 (8.33%) Analyst
8 7 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 7 (8.33%) Security Analyst
9 5 (5.95%) Security Manager
9 5 (5.95%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
10 4 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 4 (4.76%) Risk Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) Security Risk Analyst
11 3 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) Terraform
2 3 (3.57%) GraphQL
2 3 (3.57%) REST
2 3 (3.57%) SOAP
3 2 (2.38%) GeoJSON
3 2 (2.38%) OpenAPI
3 2 (2.38%) RESTful
3 2 (2.38%) Swagger
4 1 (1.19%) .NET
4 1 (1.19%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.19%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.19%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.86%) Security Posture
2 11 (13.10%) Blog
3 10 (11.90%) Management Information System
4 9 (10.71%) PKI
5 8 (9.52%) Cloud Native
6 6 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
6 6 (7.14%) Operational Technology
7 5 (5.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (5.95%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
9 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
10 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.19%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Linux
1 1 (1.19%) Windows
1 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (70.24%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (47.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 36 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 36 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
4 33 (39.29%) Security Architecture
5 32 (38.10%) Agile
6 23 (27.38%) Risk Management
6 23 (27.38%) SABSA
7 22 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (26.19%) Risk Assessment
8 21 (25.00%) TOGAF
9 20 (23.81%) Architectural Patterns
10 19 (22.62%) Cyber Resilience
11 18 (21.43%) Community of Practice
11 18 (21.43%) Cyber Assurance
11 18 (21.43%) Information Security
12 17 (20.24%) Identity Access Management
12 17 (20.24%) Risk Analysis
13 16 (19.05%) Mentoring
14 15 (17.86%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.14%) Bash
2 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
2 3 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (3.57%) Objective-C
2 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.57%) Python
3 2 (2.38%) Bicep
3 2 (2.38%) SQL
4 1 (1.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 68 (80.95%) Security Cleared
2 56 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 38 (45.24%) CISSP
4 34 (40.48%) CISM
5 23 (27.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 21 (25.00%) DV Cleared
7 19 (22.62%) Degree
8 8 (9.52%) AWS Certification
9 7 (8.33%) CREST Certified
10 5 (5.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (5.95%) Azure Certification
10 5 (5.95%) CISA
10 5 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (5.95%) CRISC
10 5 (5.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (3.57%) CCSP
11 3 (3.57%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (3.57%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (78.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (59.52%) NIST
3 17 (20.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 16 (19.05%) GDPR
5 14 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 14 (16.67%) PCI DSS
6 13 (15.48%) GRC
7 6 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 6 (7.14%) JSP 440
8 5 (5.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 5 (5.95%) NIST 800
9 3 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (2.38%) SOC 2
11 1 (1.19%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 5 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.76%) Docker
2 4 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Ansible
2 1 (1.19%) Consul
2 1 (1.19%) Packer
2 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.57%) CyberArk
2 3 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (1.19%) TOWER Software