NCSC Contracts in Manchester

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 97 119
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 +17
Contract jobs citing NCSC 4 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.34% 0.67% 0.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.67% 5.14% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 16
10th Percentile £471 £610 £481
25th Percentile £482 £631 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +6.12% -5.77%
75th Percentile £502 £725 £638
90th Percentile £503 £910 £688
North West median daily rate £502 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -22.77% +6.12% +7.93%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 150 214 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.90% 13.09% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 141 242
10th Percentile £332 £300 £264
25th Percentile £400 £393 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £506 £588 £575
90th Percentile £634 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £483 £475
% change year-on-year -6.83% +1.68% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 12
10th Percentile £15.30 £16.36 £22.38
25th Percentile £20.25 £16.53 £63.07
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.31 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.41% -66.70% +452.05%
75th Percentile £29.75 £38.75 £76.50
90th Percentile £29.90 £54.50 £81.00
North West median hourly rate £24.18 £26.65 £69.05
% change year-on-year -9.27% -61.40% +263.42%

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 3 (75.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
1 3 (75.00%) NIST 800