NCSC Contracts in England

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 434 416 615
Rank change year-on-year -18 +199 -84
Contract jobs citing NCSC 103 251 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.52% 0.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.01% 3.91% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 168 105
10th Percentile £489 £513 £449
25th Percentile £563 £606 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +12.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £776 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £769
UK median daily rate £643 £688 £625
% change year-on-year -6.46% +10.00% +15.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 24 9
10th Percentile £80.34 £59.73 £52.05
25th Percentile £80.85 £62.00 £59.00
Median hourly rate £81.71 £73.99 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% +17.44% +8.28%
75th Percentile £82.56 £83.33 £71.08
90th Percentile £83.07 £83.40 £79.47
UK median hourly rate £81.71 £73.99 £63.00
% change year-on-year +10.43% +17.44% +8.28%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,125 6,421 9,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.09% 13.33% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,289 4,357 6,302
10th Percentile £300 £290 £290
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 215 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.63 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £20.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +27.12% +40.48%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £79.90 £69.52
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in England

NCSC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in England

NCSC
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NCSC in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NCSC in England

NCSC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NCSC in England.

Hourly rate trend for NCSC in England

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London +37 45 £650 -7.14% 13
South West -20 34 £600 -16.43% 7
South East -8 14 £628 -10.32% 9
North of England +5 5 £575 -8.37% 2
North West -3 4 £575 -8.37% 1
Midlands +23 2 £675 -14.29% 4
West Midlands +22 2 £675 -14.29% 3
East of England +3 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £575 - 1
NCSC
UK

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (5.83%) Confluence
2 2 (1.94%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.94%) nginx
2 2 (1.94%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 32 (31.07%) AWS
2 25 (24.27%) Azure
3 6 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (5.83%) GCP
4 4 (3.88%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (3.88%) GitHub
5 3 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.97%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.97%) Serverless
7 1 (0.97%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.45%) Network Security
2 11 (10.68%) Firewall
3 7 (6.80%) WAN
4 5 (4.85%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (3.88%) DNS
6 3 (2.91%) SSL
6 3 (2.91%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.94%) 4G
7 2 (1.94%) BGP
7 2 (1.94%) DHCP
7 2 (1.94%) DMVPN
7 2 (1.94%) HSRP
7 2 (1.94%) LAN
7 2 (1.94%) MPLS
7 2 (1.94%) OSPF
7 2 (1.94%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.94%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (1.94%) VLAN
7 2 (1.94%) VPN
7 2 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (1.94%) Big Data
2 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.97%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.80%) JIRA
2 5 (4.85%) Git
3 3 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.94%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.94%) GitLab
4 2 (1.94%) RStudio
5 1 (0.97%) Terragrunt
General
1 26 (25.24%) Public Sector
2 19 (18.45%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.88%) Local Government
5 3 (2.91%) Finance
5 3 (2.91%) Legal
5 3 (2.91%) Police
6 2 (1.94%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.94%) Military
7 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (38.83%) Architect
2 21 (20.39%) Security Architect
3 19 (18.45%) Analyst
4 14 (13.59%) SOC Analyst
5 13 (12.62%) Consultant
5 13 (12.62%) Security Consultant
6 10 (9.71%) Senior
7 8 (7.77%) Security Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.83%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 6 (5.83%) IT Architect
9 6 (5.83%) Senior Architect
9 6 (5.83%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Security Analyst
11 4 (3.88%) Lead
11 4 (3.88%) Network Architect
11 4 (3.88%) Risk Analyst
11 4 (3.88%) SOC Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.88%) JSON
1 4 (3.88%) XML
2 2 (1.94%) cloud-init
2 2 (1.94%) Jinja
2 2 (1.94%) JSON Schema
2 2 (1.94%) KML
2 2 (1.94%) NETCONF
2 2 (1.94%) Regular Expression
2 2 (1.94%) RESTful
2 2 (1.94%) XML Schema
2 2 (1.94%) YANG
3 1 (0.97%) Flask
3 1 (0.97%) Pandas
3 1 (0.97%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.39%) Management Information System
2 15 (14.56%) CSOC
2 15 (14.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 11 (10.68%) Public Cloud
3 11 (10.68%) Security Posture
4 6 (5.83%) PKI
5 5 (4.85%) Operational Technology
6 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.88%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (3.88%) SCADA
7 3 (2.91%) NHS
8 2 (1.94%) Clustering
8 2 (1.94%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (1.94%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.97%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (0.97%) Insider Threat
9 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.80%) Linux
2 2 (1.94%) CentOS
2 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.97%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (57.28%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (36.89%) Information Security
3 27 (26.21%) Security Architecture
4 26 (25.24%) Information Assurance
5 25 (24.27%) Incident Response
6 21 (20.39%) Security Management
7 20 (19.42%) Risk Assessment
8 19 (18.45%) Threat Intelligence
9 17 (16.50%) ITIL
9 17 (16.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 16 (15.53%) Information Security Management
10 16 (15.53%) Security Operations
10 16 (15.53%) TOGAF
11 14 (13.59%) Architectural Patterns
11 14 (13.59%) DevOps
11 14 (13.59%) SABSA
12 12 (11.65%) Risk Management
13 11 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (10.68%) Cyber Resilience
14 10 (9.71%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.85%) Python
2 2 (1.94%) Bash
2 2 (1.94%) Go
2 2 (1.94%) R
2 2 (1.94%) Ruby
3 1 (0.97%) Java
3 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (67.96%) Security Cleared
2 44 (42.72%) SC Cleared
3 29 (28.16%) DV Cleared
4 23 (22.33%) CISSP
5 20 (19.42%) CISM
6 11 (10.68%) CISA
7 8 (7.77%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (7.77%) CREST Certified
7 8 (7.77%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (5.83%) Degree
9 4 (3.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.91%) CCNP
10 3 (2.91%) CCSK
10 3 (2.91%) CESG Certified Professional
10 3 (2.91%) MCSE
10 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.94%) CLAS
11 2 (1.94%) CRISC
12 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (41.75%) NIST
2 26 (25.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (17.48%) GDPR
4 8 (7.77%) RMADS
5 7 (6.80%) Government Security Classifications
6 6 (5.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 5 (4.85%) GRC
8 4 (3.88%) ISO 31000
8 4 (3.88%) JSP 440
9 3 (2.91%) COBIT
9 3 (2.91%) GPG13
9 3 (2.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (1.94%) NIST 800
10 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.97%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.97%) ISA99
11 1 (0.97%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 6 (5.83%) Docker
2 3 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (7.77%) Terraform
2 6 (5.83%) Ansible
2 6 (5.83%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.88%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (3.88%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 3 (2.91%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.94%) Consul
5 2 (1.94%) Graphite
5 2 (1.94%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.94%) Istio
5 2 (1.94%) linkerd
5 2 (1.94%) Packer
5 2 (1.94%) Podman
5 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.94%) Puppet
5 2 (1.94%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.97%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.97%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.74%) VMware
3 7 (6.80%) Splunk
4 3 (2.91%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.91%) Cisco
4 3 (2.91%) Juniper
4 3 (2.91%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.94%) Aruba
5 2 (1.94%) Meraki
5 2 (1.94%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.97%) Apple
6 1 (0.97%) Cadence
6 1 (0.97%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.97%) ForeScout
6 1 (0.97%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle