NCSC Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 611 539 680
Rank change year-on-year -72 +141 -81
Permanent jobs citing NCSC 170 181 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.71% 1.67% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 118 110 108
10th Percentile £49,138 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,063 £56,250 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +21.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £70,250 £79,750 £69,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £92,500 £77,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,924 10,814 13,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.56% 19.43% 17.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,387 4,420 7,021
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £36,021
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £79,775 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for NCSC in the UK excluding London

NCSC
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing NCSC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for NCSC in the UK excluding London

NCSC
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NCSC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
South West -17 58 £68,500 -8.67% 8
North of England +13 32 £61,391 -18.15% 7
South East -6 30 £67,500 - 2
Midlands -40 27 £60,000 -4.00% 4
West Midlands -9 22 £60,000 -4.00% 3
North West -5 20 £60,000 +33.33% 4
East of England -7 14 £65,000 -7.14% 2
North East - 10 £62,783 -
Scotland -68 9 £60,500 +89.06%
East Midlands -42 5 £61,439 +8.74% 1
Yorkshire +39 2 £50,000 -47.37% 3
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 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.71%) Azure
2 14 (8.24%) AWS
3 11 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (6.47%) IaaS
3 11 (6.47%) PaaS
3 11 (6.47%) SaaS
4 10 (5.88%) GitHub
4 10 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (4.71%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.76%) GCP
8 2 (1.18%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.59%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.82%) Network Security
2 12 (7.06%) TCP/IP
3 9 (5.29%) Cisco IPT
4 7 (4.12%) Firewall
5 5 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.76%) 3GPP
6 3 (1.76%) 5G
7 2 (1.18%) DMZ
7 2 (1.18%) NAS
8 1 (0.59%) DHCP
8 1 (0.59%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.59%) DNS
8 1 (0.59%) HTTP
8 1 (0.59%) SAN
8 1 (0.59%) SCTP
8 1 (0.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.18%) Power BI
2 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (5.88%) SonarQube
2 9 (5.29%) JIRA
3 1 (0.59%) Git
General
1 24 (14.12%) Finance
2 14 (8.24%) Public Sector
2 14 (8.24%) Telecoms
3 8 (4.71%) Aerospace
3 8 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (4.12%) Military
4 7 (4.12%) Social Skills
5 5 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.94%) Law
6 2 (1.18%) Legal
6 2 (1.18%) Publishing
6 2 (1.18%) Retail
7 1 (0.59%) Games
7 1 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (0.59%) Marketing
7 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (26.47%) Security Manager
2 36 (21.18%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 33 (19.41%) Security Assurance Manager
4 31 (18.24%) Information Manager
4 31 (18.24%) Information Security Manager
5 30 (17.65%) Information Assurance Manager
6 28 (16.47%) Consultant
7 27 (15.88%) Security Consultant
8 20 (11.76%) Lead
9 16 (9.41%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 16 (9.41%) Senior
10 15 (8.82%) Analyst
10 15 (8.82%) Security Analyst
11 11 (6.47%) Managing Consultant
12 9 (5.29%) Information Analyst
12 9 (5.29%) Information Security Analyst
12 9 (5.29%) Product Owner
12 9 (5.29%) Security Officer
12 9 (5.29%) Senior Product Owner
13 7 (4.12%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.88%) ARM Templates
1 10 (5.88%) Azure Blueprints
2 9 (5.29%) ModSecurity
3 6 (3.53%) JSON
3 6 (3.53%) JSON Schema
3 6 (3.53%) KML
3 6 (3.53%) Regular Expression
3 6 (3.53%) XML
4 1 (0.59%) EDI
4 1 (0.59%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 50 (29.41%) Management Information System
2 35 (20.59%) Cyberattack
3 22 (12.94%) Operational Technology
4 10 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 9 (5.29%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.12%) Cyber Defence
6 7 (4.12%) SCADA
7 6 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.53%) NHS
8 5 (2.94%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.94%) Industry 4.0
8 5 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.18%) CMDB
10 2 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.18%) Smartcard
11 1 (0.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.53%) Linux
2 3 (1.76%) Windows
2 3 (1.76%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (82.35%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (44.71%) Risk Management
3 58 (34.12%) Information Security
4 46 (27.06%) Information Assurance
5 45 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (25.29%) Mentoring
7 41 (24.12%) Security Management
8 28 (16.47%) Project Management
9 27 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (14.12%) Security Architecture
11 17 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (10.00%) Data Protection
11 17 (10.00%) SIEM
12 16 (9.41%) Coaching
13 15 (8.82%) Cyber Assurance
13 15 (8.82%) DevOps
13 15 (8.82%) DevSecOps
14 14 (8.24%) Project Delivery
15 13 (7.65%) Architectural Patterns
15 13 (7.65%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.59%) Python
2 1 (0.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (57.65%) Security Cleared
2 74 (43.53%) SC Cleared
3 36 (21.18%) CISSP
4 34 (20.00%) CISM
5 24 (14.12%) Degree
6 14 (8.24%) CASP
7 13 (7.65%) CRISC
8 12 (7.06%) CEH
8 12 (7.06%) CISA
9 11 (6.47%) CESG Certified Professional
9 11 (6.47%) DV Cleared
10 10 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (3.53%) Master's Degree
12 5 (2.94%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.76%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.76%) PCI QSA
14 2 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (1.18%) GCIH
14 2 (1.18%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (50.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (26.47%) NIST
3 39 (22.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 26 (15.29%) GDPR
5 20 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 17 (10.00%) GRC
6 17 (10.00%) NIST 800
7 12 (7.06%) PCI DSS
8 7 (4.12%) JSP 440
9 6 (3.53%) RMADS
10 4 (2.35%) ISO 22301
10 4 (2.35%) ISO 31000
11 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (1.76%) SOC 2
12 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 10 (5.88%) Docker
2 4 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.18%) vSphere
4 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (9.41%) Ansible
2 10 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.88%) Terraform
3 3 (1.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.18%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.59%) QRadar
Vendors
1 13 (7.65%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.29%) ServiceNow
2 9 (5.29%) Splunk
3 5 (2.94%) BT
4 3 (1.76%) VMware
5 2 (1.18%) BMC
5 2 (1.18%) Facebook
6 1 (0.59%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.59%) Databricks
6 1 (0.59%) Dell
6 1 (0.59%) NetApp
6 1 (0.59%) SolarWinds