NCSC Contracts in Central London

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for NCSC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NCSC over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 159 188
Rank change year-on-year +26 +29 -21
Contract jobs citing NCSC 4 15 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.17% 0.40% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.99% 3.01% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile £435 - £497
25th Percentile £441 £625 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £623
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +8.43% +8.93%
75th Percentile £569 £725 £654
90th Percentile £640 £770 £667
London median daily rate £650 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

NCSC is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 405 499 664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.91% 13.45% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 363 423
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £488 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +8.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £650
90th Percentile £765 £824 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile £17.96 - £20.00
25th Percentile £20.44 - £25.25
Median hourly rate £23.40 £25.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -39.76% +107.50%
75th Percentile £25.92 - £61.75
90th Percentile £35.16 - £62.20
London median hourly rate £24.18 £26.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% -41.01% +122.50%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NCSC in Central London.

Daily rate trend for NCSC in Central London

NCSC
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NCSC in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NCSC in Central London

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +34 4 £450 -33.33% 1
NCSC
London

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (25.00%) RStudio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) IT Security Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
1 3 (75.00%) OWASP
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) ISMS
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) COBIT
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CASB
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) SCOrch
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (50.00%) Imperva
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Netskope
1 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow