NCSC Contracts in London

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 345 382 537
Rank change year-on-year +37 +155 -101
Contract jobs citing NCSC 45 111 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.43% 0.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.82% 3.26% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 86 39
10th Percentile £484 £513 £460
25th Percentile £553 £625 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £738 £838 £688
90th Percentile £738 £850 £714
England median daily rate £613 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% +12.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England 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
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 London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,477 3,400 4,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.19% 13.14% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,750 2,458 3,465
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £798 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 36 82
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.37 £20.90
25th Percentile £17.85 £21.24 £26.25
Median hourly rate £24.18 £30.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.37% -30.90% +122.50%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £57.13 £81.25 £68.63
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +27.12% +40.48%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in London

NCSC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in London

NCSC
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for NCSC in London

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +26 3 £638 -1.92% 2
East London -5 1 £600 -
NCSC
England

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (4.44%) Confluence
1 2 (4.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) AWS
2 12 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (6.67%) GitHub
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.22%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.22%) Serverless
4 1 (2.22%) Smartsheet
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (42.22%) Network Security
2 8 (17.78%) Firewall
3 4 (8.89%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (4.44%) BGP
4 2 (4.44%) DHCP
4 2 (4.44%) DMVPN
4 2 (4.44%) DNS
4 2 (4.44%) HSRP
4 2 (4.44%) LAN
4 2 (4.44%) MPLS
4 2 (4.44%) OSPF
4 2 (4.44%) SD-WAN
4 2 (4.44%) SNMP
4 2 (4.44%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (4.44%) SSL
4 2 (4.44%) VLAN
4 2 (4.44%) VPN
4 2 (4.44%) WAN
4 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (4.44%) Big Data
2 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) CircleCI
1 2 (4.44%) Git
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
1 2 (4.44%) RStudio
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (31.11%) Public Sector
2 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Local Government
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (51.11%) Architect
2 19 (42.22%) Security Architect
3 9 (20.00%) Consultant
3 9 (20.00%) Security Consultant
4 5 (11.11%) Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Risk Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Security Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 3 (6.67%) Security Risk Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Principal Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Principal Security Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.22%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.22%) Coordinator
8 1 (2.22%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) JSON
1 4 (8.89%) XML
2 2 (4.44%) Jinja
2 2 (4.44%) JSON Schema
2 2 (4.44%) KML
2 2 (4.44%) NETCONF
2 2 (4.44%) Regular Expression
2 2 (4.44%) RESTful
2 2 (4.44%) XML Schema
2 2 (4.44%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 4 (8.89%) Operational Technology
2 4 (8.89%) SCADA
3 3 (6.67%) NHS
3 3 (6.67%) PKI
4 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.22%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (2.22%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.22%) IoT
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (37.78%) Information Security
2 17 (37.78%) Risk Assessment
2 17 (37.78%) Security Architecture
3 16 (35.56%) Information Assurance
3 16 (35.56%) Security Management
4 14 (31.11%) Architectural Patterns
5 13 (28.89%) Information Security Management
5 13 (28.89%) SABSA
5 13 (28.89%) TOGAF
6 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.56%) Risk Management
7 6 (13.33%) Risk Analysis
8 4 (8.89%) Cloud Security
8 4 (8.89%) Containerisation
8 4 (8.89%) Data Protection
8 4 (8.89%) Incident Response
8 4 (8.89%) Penetration Testing
8 4 (8.89%) Threat Modelling
8 4 (8.89%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.44%) Python
1 2 (4.44%) R
2 1 (2.22%) Java
2 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 16 (35.56%) CISSP
3 14 (31.11%) SC Cleared
4 13 (28.89%) CISM
5 11 (24.44%) CISA
6 8 (17.78%) CREST Certified
6 8 (17.78%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (8.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (6.67%) CCSK
9 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
10 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (4.44%) CRISC
10 2 (4.44%) Degree
11 1 (2.22%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (55.56%) NIST
2 15 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (13.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (11.11%) GRC
5 4 (8.89%) ISO 31000
6 3 (6.67%) COBIT
6 3 (6.67%) GPG13
6 3 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (2.22%) GDPR
7 1 (2.22%) ISA99
7 1 (2.22%) ISO 22301
7 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (2.22%) NIST 800
7 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Firmware
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Terraform
2 4 (8.89%) Ansible
2 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (4.44%) Aruba
3 2 (4.44%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.44%) Cisco
3 2 (4.44%) Juniper
3 2 (4.44%) Meraki
4 1 (2.22%) Apple
4 1 (2.22%) Cadence
4 1 (2.22%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.22%) ForeScout
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) VMware