NCSC Contracts in the UK excluding London

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 334 304 415
Rank change year-on-year -30 +111 -43
Contract jobs citing NCSC 60 147 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.64% 0.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.02% 4.33% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 88 66
10th Percentile £525 £550 £412
25th Percentile £563 £623 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +12.00% +33.69%
75th Percentile £681 £800 £688
90th Percentile £700 £838 £800
UK median daily rate £643 £688 £625
% change year-on-year -6.46% +10.00% +15.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 23 9
10th Percentile - £59.73 £52.05
25th Percentile - £62.00 £59.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.98 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +15.84% +8.28%
75th Percentile - £83.36 £71.08
90th Percentile - £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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,970 3,395 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.64% 14.76% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 2,261 3,030
10th Percentile £250 £223 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +6.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 188 207
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.44
25th Percentile £12.75 £18.09 £15.78
Median hourly rate £18.27 £32.94 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.54% +46.41% +7.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £69.05
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in the UK excluding London

NCSC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for NCSC in the UK excluding London

NCSC
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for NCSC in the UK excluding London

NCSC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NCSC in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for NCSC in the UK excluding London

NCSC
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South West -20 34 £600 -16.43% 8
South East -8 14 £628 -10.32% 9
North of England +5 5 £575 -8.37% 2
Scotland +31 4 £575 +4.55%
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 the UK excluding 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 6 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) nginx
2 2 (3.33%) Traefik
3 1 (1.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.67%) JBoss
3 1 (1.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.67%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.33%) AWS
2 16 (26.67%) Azure
3 6 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (10.00%) GCP
4 4 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub
6 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) WAN
2 3 (5.00%) Firewall
3 2 (3.33%) DNS
3 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.67%) 4G
4 1 (1.67%) 5G
4 1 (1.67%) HTTP
4 1 (1.67%) Internet
4 1 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) Git
3 2 (3.33%) GitLab
3 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.67%) JUnit
4 1 (1.67%) Maven
4 1 (1.67%) Subversion
General
1 15 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 10 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.00%) Finance
4 3 (5.00%) Police
5 2 (3.33%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.33%) Legal
5 2 (3.33%) Military
6 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Architect
2 14 (23.33%) Analyst
2 14 (23.33%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (11.67%) Security Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) IT Architect
4 6 (10.00%) Senior
4 6 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 6 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 6 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Consultant
5 4 (6.67%) Network Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Security Consultant
5 4 (6.67%) Senior VMware Architect
5 4 (6.67%) SOC Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) VMware Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 3 (5.00%) Lead
7 2 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 2 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) cloud-init
2 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.67%) Flask
2 1 (1.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.67%) Java EE
2 1 (1.67%) JPA
2 1 (1.67%) JSP
2 1 (1.67%) JSTL
2 1 (1.67%) OpenJDK
2 1 (1.67%) Pandas
2 1 (1.67%) Servlets
2 1 (1.67%) Spring
2 1 (1.67%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (1.67%) STL
2 1 (1.67%) XML
2 1 (1.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.67%) Management Information System
2 15 (25.00%) CSOC
2 15 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 11 (18.33%) Public Cloud
4 8 (13.33%) Security Posture
5 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (5.00%) PKI
7 2 (3.33%) Clustering
7 2 (3.33%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.67%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) CentOS
2 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) AIX
3 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.67%) Unix
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (38.33%) Incident Response
3 20 (33.33%) Information Security
4 19 (31.67%) Threat Intelligence
5 17 (28.33%) ITIL
5 17 (28.33%) Security Operations
6 16 (26.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 13 (21.67%) Cyber Resilience
7 13 (21.67%) DevOps
8 11 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (18.33%) Security Architecture
9 9 (15.00%) ArchiMate
9 9 (15.00%) Information Assurance
10 8 (13.33%) Agile
10 8 (13.33%) Cloud Security
10 8 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
10 8 (13.33%) Use Case
11 7 (11.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 6 (10.00%) MODAF
12 6 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.00%) Python
2 2 (3.33%) Bash
2 2 (3.33%) Go
2 2 (3.33%) Ruby
3 1 (1.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 53 (88.33%) Security Cleared
2 30 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 27 (45.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (11.67%) CISM
4 7 (11.67%) CISSP
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.00%) CCNP
5 3 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.00%) Degree
5 3 (5.00%) MCSE
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.33%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (3.33%) CLAS
7 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (30.00%) NIST
2 17 (28.33%) GDPR
3 14 (23.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (11.67%) Government Security Classifications
4 7 (11.67%) RMADS
5 4 (6.67%) JSP 440
6 2 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.67%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.67%) PMO
7 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 4 (6.67%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 3 (5.00%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Ansible
3 2 (3.33%) Consul
3 2 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (3.33%) Graphite
3 2 (3.33%) HAProxy
3 2 (3.33%) Istio
3 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.33%) linkerd
3 2 (3.33%) Packer
3 2 (3.33%) Podman
3 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.33%) Puppet
3 2 (3.33%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.67%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (15.00%) VMware
2 7 (11.67%) Splunk
3 2 (3.33%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.33%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.67%) Cisco
4 1 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.67%) Juniper
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle