Management Consultancy

Ncounter strive to provide best-in-class management consulting services. Our reactive, proactive and retained services are designed to meet the needs of our clients, whether they need assistance with recruitment, skill development or strategic advice.

Understanding the varying industries as well as individual company complexities is our strength – allowing us to tailor our approach and provision for each separate company’s needs.

Our consultants are committed to providing the highest possible standards of professionalism and excellence throughout the process – with confidentiality, referencing and clearance queries and objectives met throughout the process and as a matter of course.

Active jobs

Platform Engineer (DV Cleared)

Wiltshire
Wiltshire
£90,000-100,000
Ncounter are supporting a secure government focused programme that is scaling its cloud and platform engineering capability. We are looking for DV Cleared Platform Engineers who enjoy solving complex problems in high assurance environments. The focus is on building reliable Kubernetes platforms, strengthening CI/CD automation, and embedding security into modern engineering practices.

Contract Cyber Security Architect

Porton Down
Wiltshire
£650-750 p/d
Ncounter are supporting a Defence programme building new cloud services on MODCloud, moving first onto GCP and later SCC. We are seeking a Cyber Security Architect to join a newly formed Agile Release Train and ensure the solution being delivered is secure, practical, and aligned to NIST and wider HMG standards.

Service Design Lead

London
London
£700-800 p/d
Ncounter are supporting a large-scale Defence and Public Safety programme seeking a Service Design Lead with a strong background in user research, creative problem solving and end to end service design. You will guide multidisciplinary teams to create services that are evidence driven, inclusive, and built around real user needs. This role blends hands on research leadership with strategic service design, ensuring clarity from discovery through to delivery. You will shape propositions, map complex journeys, and drive insight led decision making across multiple workstreams. You will support and coach researchers and designers, raise capability standards, and ensure outputs meet recognised user centred design expectations across government.

User Research Lead

London
London
£575 to £650 per day
Ncounter are looking for a User Research Lead to support a major Defence programme, guiding multidisciplinary teams and ensuring user insight shapes every phase of delivery. You will balance hands on research with team leadership, while keeping delivery aligned to user needs, policy requirements and programme outcomes.

Contract Business Analyst

London
London
£650-750
Ncounter are hiring a DV Cleared Business Analyst to support a major Defence software delivery programme. This role suits someone who has worked in agile, client facing environments and can translate complex business needs into clear, concise and prioritised requirements for development teams.

Identity Architect

Wiltshire
Wiltshire
£750-850 per day Outside IR35
Ncounter are hiring an Identity Architect to support a high priority Defence programme. This role focuses on designing and documenting Identity, Credential and Access Management architectures and ensuring they integrate cleanly with wider MOD identity initiatives. The programme requires someone who understands Defence environments, can operate at Principal level and is confident working with senior technical stakeholders. You will be responsible for shaping identity designs, guiding implementation teams and producing clear and accurate architectural documentation.

Palantir Engineer

London
London
£750-850 p/d
Ncounter are supporting a major MOD data and applications modernisation initiative. This programme underpins mission critical decision making and requires multiple DV Cleared Palantir Engineers to strengthen an existing engineering capability and accelerate delivery across several concurrent workstreams.

Cloud Engineer

Wiltshire
Wiltshire
£700-800 p/d OUTSIDE IR35
Join a high-profile Defence programme delivering complex, mission-critical cloud environments. This role sits within a secure engineering team, building and maintaining highly available Kubernetes and Terraform-based infrastructure for classified systems.

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