National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for NCSC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NCSC over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 672 589 884
Rank change year-on-year -83 +295 -133
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 248 401 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.41% 0.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.82% 2.22% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 189 219 212
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £71,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,837 £98,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.99% +17.39% -8.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

NCSC is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,629 18,029 28,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 18.52% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,164 8,543 13,451
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,825
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.55% +0.68%

NCSC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NCSC in the UK

NCSC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NCSC.

Salary trend for NCSC in the UK

NCSC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NCSC over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for NCSC in the UK

NCSC
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -26 230 £65,000 -7.14% 43
UK excluding London -57 170 £62,783 -6.99% 30
Work from Home +24 104 £60,202 -14.00% 16
London +53 62 £70,000 - 13
South West -9 59 £68,500 -8.67% 7
North of England +28 32 £61,391 -7.33% 5
South East -30 30 £67,500 - 10
Midlands -10 26 £60,000 -4.00% 5
West Midlands +13 21 £60,000 -4.00% 4
North West +3 20 £60,000 +33.33% 3
East of England 0 14 £65,000 -7.14% 2
North East - 10 £62,783 -
Scotland -61 9 £55,500 +73.44%
East Midlands -22 5 £61,439 +8.74% 1
Yorkshire +52 2 £50,000 -33.33% 2

NCSC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 46 (18.55%) Azure
2 31 (12.50%) AWS
3 22 (8.87%) IaaS
3 22 (8.87%) PaaS
4 21 (8.47%) SaaS
5 14 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (5.24%) GitHub
6 13 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (3.23%) GCP
9 7 (2.82%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (1.61%) AWS CodeBuild
11 4 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.81%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.40%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 1 (0.40%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.48%) Network Security
2 23 (9.27%) Firewall
2 23 (9.27%) TCP/IP
3 14 (5.65%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (3.63%) 5G
5 9 (3.63%) Cisco IPT
5 9 (3.63%) DNS
6 8 (3.23%) DMZ
6 8 (3.23%) VPN
7 6 (2.42%) BGP
7 6 (2.42%) Cisco Wireless
7 6 (2.42%) Internet
7 6 (2.42%) LAN
7 6 (2.42%) MPLS
7 6 (2.42%) VLAN
7 6 (2.42%) WAN
7 6 (2.42%) Wireless
7 6 (2.42%) Wireshark
7 6 (2.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.61%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.81%) Power BI
3 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (4.03%) JIRA
2 9 (3.63%) SonarQube
3 4 (1.61%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.40%) Git
General
1 40 (16.13%) Finance
2 35 (14.11%) Social Skills
3 30 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.87%) Telecoms
5 19 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.24%) Aerospace
8 12 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.23%) Military
10 7 (2.82%) Legal
11 6 (2.42%) Law
12 5 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.61%) Retail
14 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.81%) Publishing
16 1 (0.40%) Games
16 1 (0.40%) Mandarin Language
16 1 (0.40%) Marketing
16 1 (0.40%) Police
16 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (18.95%) Security Manager
2 39 (15.73%) Consultant
3 38 (15.32%) Analyst
4 36 (14.52%) Security Analyst
5 35 (14.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 33 (13.31%) Security Consultant
7 32 (12.90%) Security Assurance Manager
8 31 (12.50%) Information Manager
8 31 (12.50%) Information Security Manager
9 30 (12.10%) Information Assurance Manager
10 28 (11.29%) Senior
11 27 (10.89%) Lead
12 20 (8.06%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 17 (6.85%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 11 (4.44%) Managing Consultant
14 11 (4.44%) Security Engineer
15 10 (4.03%) Architect
16 9 (3.63%) Coordinator
16 9 (3.63%) Product Owner
16 9 (3.63%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.63%) ARM Templates
1 9 (3.63%) Azure Blueprints
1 9 (3.63%) ModSecurity
2 6 (2.42%) JSON
2 6 (2.42%) JSON Schema
2 6 (2.42%) KML
2 6 (2.42%) Regular Expression
2 6 (2.42%) XML
3 1 (0.40%) EDI
3 1 (0.40%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 71 (28.63%) Management Information System
2 45 (18.15%) Cyberattack
3 34 (13.71%) Operational Technology
4 22 (8.87%) Cyber Defence
5 17 (6.85%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (4.44%) Data Centre
7 10 (4.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 9 (3.63%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.63%) Product Ownership
8 9 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (3.23%) SCADA
10 6 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.42%) NHS
11 5 (2.02%) Driving Licence
11 5 (2.02%) Industry 4.0
11 5 (2.02%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 2 (0.81%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.24%) Linux
1 13 (5.24%) Windows
2 6 (2.42%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.02%) Android
3 5 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.61%) DC/OS
5 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (83.47%) Cybersecurity
2 90 (36.29%) Risk Management
3 80 (32.26%) Information Security
4 56 (22.58%) Mentoring
5 53 (21.37%) Information Assurance
6 45 (18.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 43 (17.34%) Security Management
8 41 (16.53%) SIEM
9 37 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (14.11%) Incident Response
10 35 (14.11%) Security Architecture
11 32 (12.90%) Project Management
11 32 (12.90%) Security Operations
12 26 (10.48%) Agile
13 24 (9.68%) Data Protection
14 23 (9.27%) Coaching
14 23 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (8.47%) Line Management
16 20 (8.06%) MITRE ATT&CK
16 20 (8.06%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.82%) Python
2 6 (2.42%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.02%) Bash
3 5 (2.02%) C
4 4 (1.61%) C#
4 4 (1.61%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.40%) SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (47.58%) Security Cleared
2 88 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 55 (22.18%) CISSP
4 52 (20.97%) CISM
5 45 (18.15%) Degree
6 21 (8.47%) CRISC
7 20 (8.06%) CESG Certified Professional
8 19 (7.66%) DV Cleared
9 17 (6.85%) CASP
9 17 (6.85%) CEH
10 16 (6.45%) CISA
10 16 (6.45%) Master's Degree
11 11 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (3.23%) GIAC
14 7 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
15 6 (2.42%) PCI QSA
16 5 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (2.02%) MBCS
16 5 (2.02%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (42.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 76 (30.65%) NIST
3 42 (16.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 34 (13.71%) GDPR
5 26 (10.48%) GRC
6 23 (9.27%) PCI DSS
7 21 (8.47%) NIST 800
8 20 (8.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (3.63%) JSP 440
10 8 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 7 (2.82%) RMADS
12 6 (2.42%) ISO 31000
13 4 (1.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (1.21%) ISO 22301
14 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (1.21%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
15 1 (0.40%) ISA99
15 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 14 (5.65%) Docker
2 4 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.81%) vSphere
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (6.05%) Ansible
2 13 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.24%) Terraform
3 6 (2.42%) CSIRT
4 3 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.81%) Nessus
5 2 (0.81%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.40%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.40%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.40%) QRadar
Vendors
1 32 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.03%) Splunk
3 9 (3.63%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.82%) Cisco
5 6 (2.42%) CheckPoint
5 6 (2.42%) Palo Alto
5 6 (2.42%) Qualys
6 5 (2.02%) BT
6 5 (2.02%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.61%) Google
7 4 (1.61%) VMware
8 2 (0.81%) BMC
8 2 (0.81%) Facebook
9 1 (0.40%) CA
9 1 (0.40%) Darktrace
9 1 (0.40%) Databricks
9 1 (0.40%) Juniper
9 1 (0.40%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.40%) Meraki
9 1 (0.40%) NetApp