Skip to main content
Digital Marketplace

Beta Help us improve the Digital Marketplace - send your feedback

Six Degrees

NCSC IT Health CHECK

Our Penetration Testing services give you the information you need to enhance your protection against ransomware and other cyber-attacks. All of our Penetration Testing services are delivered by experienced, qualified ethical hackers. We provide summary reports in an easy to digest format that contain expert advice for reducing attack surface.

Features

  • CHECK Team Leaders
  • CHECK Team Members
  • CREST Accredited
  • SC Cleared Staff
  • External and Internal Infrastructure Testing
  • Web, Mobile and Desktop Application Testing
  • Firewall and Network Device Configuration Reviews
  • Server, Workstation and Cloud Environment Build Reviews

Benefits

  • Over 20 Years as CHECK Scheme Members
  • 20 Years plus of Experience in UK Government
  • Experts in Blue light
  • Experts in Central Government
  • Experts in CNI
  • Pragmatic Advice
  • Real World Implementation Experience

Pricing

  • Education pricing available

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at publicsector.sales@6dg.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

7 4 9 8 3 3 9 9 2 7 9 1 0 4 6

Contact

Six Degrees Six Degrees Public Sector team
Telephone: 08000128060
Email: publicsector.sales@6dg.co.uk

About your service

Service categories

Cloud Support Services

Security Services

  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Security incident management
  • Security audit services
  • Security quality assurance (QA) and testing
  • Other

Service scope

Service constraints
Please see attached Service Description for service dependencies and exclusions.

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Yes
Support response times
Dependant on incident/request and priority level - please see attached Service Description for details.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
WCAG 2.2 A
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Support levels
Each test is lead by a CHECK Team Leader and they are typically working alongside a CHECK Team member. Escalation points will be provided for any problems and/or queries. Please see attached Service Description for further details.

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Conforms to BS7858:2019
Government security clearance
Security Clearance (SC)

Pricing

Discount for educational organisations
Yes

Architecture roles

Network architect
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Network architect £1,125.00
Solution architect
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Solution architect £1,125.00
Senior solution architect £1,260.00
Lead solution architect £1,575.00
Principal solution architect £1,665.00
Technical architect
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Technical architect £1,125.00

Chief digital and data roles

Chief information security officer
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Chief information security officer £1,665.00

Cyber security roles

Cyber security testing
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Associate cyber security testing £900.00
Lead cyber security penetration testing £1,100.00
Principal cyber security testing £1,300.00

IT operations roles

End user computing engineer
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
End user computing engineer £675.00
Senior end user computing engineer £855.00
Lead end user computing engineer £945.00
Infrastructure engineer
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Infrastructure engineer £675.00
Senior infrastructure engineer £855.00
Lead infrastructure engineer £945.00
Infrastructure operations engineer
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Infrastructure operations engineer £675.00
Senior infrastructure operations engineer £855.00
Lead infrastructure operations engineer £945.00

Product and delivery roles

Delivery manager
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Delivery manager £675.00
Senior delivery manager £990.00
Programme delivery manager
Role level UK Rate Offshore Rate
Programme delivery manager £1,260.00

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
LQRA
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
Friday 13 March 2015
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
All is covered
ISO 28000:2022 certification
No
ISO 9001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification
LRQA
ISO 9001 accreditation date
Tuesday 11 August 2009
What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
N/A All is covered
Quality management systems (QMS)
Yes
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
Yes
Who accredited the PCI DSS certification
IT Governance Ltd
PCI DSS accreditation date
Thursday 6 November 2025
What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover
N/A All is covered
Cyber essentials
Yes
Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
4fac61c0-0804-4641-bafb-8491a85aefad
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
Bd936e65-aa84-4efe-a586-1a80b7409c04
Other security certifications
No

Social value

Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority

    • Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
    • Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
    • Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
    • Employment contracts that reflect actual hours worked; steps taken to ensure employees understand their contracts and have the ability to review and adjust them if actual hours regularly exceed contracted hours
    • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
    • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
    • Activities to cascade good practice on fair working conditions throughout the supply chain
    • Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
    • Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
    • Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
    • Plans for an appropriate income replacement policy for staff who are required to spend time away from work to care for a sick dependent or close relative
    • Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
    • Measures to support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
    • Support for the contract workforce by providing career advice, and providing opportunities for staff working on the contract with in-work progression career development into known skills shortages or high growth areas
    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • Volunteering opportunities for staff

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at publicsector.sales@6dg.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.