NCSC Contracts in Manchester

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 84 119
Rank change year-on-year -10 +35 -
Contract jobs citing NCSC 3 23 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.21% 1.29% 1.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.31% 8.98% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 15 19
10th Percentile - £609 -
25th Percentile - £613 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £630 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% -
75th Percentile - £650 £638
90th Percentile - - £640
North West median daily rate - £630 £625
% change year-on-year - +0.80% -13.79%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 229 256 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.88% 14.35% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 180 279
10th Percentile £333 £340 £263
25th Percentile £425 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +3.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £636 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 17
10th Percentile £12.84 £18.47 £11.59
25th Percentile £13.19 £21.25 £11.75
Median hourly rate £37.13 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% +9.09% +116.88%
75th Percentile £68.78 £39.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.14 £63.84 £81.00
North West median hourly rate £12.42 £38.55 £41.15
% change year-on-year -67.78% -6.32% +174.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (66.67%) nginx
1 2 (66.67%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Cyberattack
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Biotechnology
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Consul
1 2 (66.67%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (66.67%) Graphite
1 2 (66.67%) HAProxy
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) linkerd
1 2 (66.67%) Packer
1 2 (66.67%) Podman
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
1 2 (66.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) PagerDuty
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft