NCSC Contracts in Edinburgh

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring NCSC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NCSC over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 101 121
Rank change year-on-year +32 +20 -7
Contract jobs citing NCSC 3 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.34% 0.17% 0.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.57% 0.68% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +26.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile - - £583
90th Percentile - - £647
Scotland median daily rate £800 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +60.00% +5.26% +15.15%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

NCSC falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 191 292 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.66% 24.62% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 241 326
10th Percentile £210 £208 £230
25th Percentile £340 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £453
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +5.86% +6.47%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £545
90th Percentile £631 £590 £593
Scotland median daily rate £438 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.79% +5.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £17.42 - -
25th Percentile £18.27 - £17.91
Median hourly rate £19.17 - £18.90
Median % change year-on-year - - -63.26%
75th Percentile £60.75 - £19.90
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £14.98 £18.13 £29.72
% change year-on-year -17.35% -39.00% +32.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (33.33%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) Java EE
1 1 (33.33%) JPA
1 1 (33.33%) JSP
1 1 (33.33%) JSTL
1 1 (33.33%) OpenJDK
1 1 (33.33%) Servlets
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) STL
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Resilience
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Identity
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Case Management
3 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) VMware