Cyber Essentials Contracts in England

Cyber Essentials
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cyber Essentials skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 562 654
Rank change year-on-year +75 +92 -92
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 61 106 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.15% 1.57% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 77 86
10th Percentile £256 £331 £289
25th Percentile £381 £438 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £630
90th Percentile £675 £800 £725
UK median daily rate £508 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -5.97% +7.95% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £41.50
75th Percentile - - £43.95
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £41.50
% change year-on-year - - +8.45%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

Cyber Essentials 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 England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,302 6,761 9,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.24% 13.33% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,378 4,579 6,385
10th Percentile £300 £275 £288
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +0.38% +10.11%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 214 258
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.84 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.00 £19.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.59% +54.55% +31.26%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.90 £79.08 £68.40
UK median hourly rate £20.49 £37.75 £28.25
% change year-on-year -45.74% +33.63% +34.36%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in England

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in England.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in England

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in England

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Essentials in England

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
London +87 27 £500 -16.67% 34
North of England +30 10 £375 -18.92% 33
South West +27 9 £575 +24.32% 10
North West +13 7 £400 -15.79% 17
South East 0 7 £170 -72.80% 27
Midlands +16 5 £675 +22.73% 16
Yorkshire +27 3 £250 -31.03% 13
West Midlands +16 3 £750 +36.36% 8
East Midlands - 2 £600 - 8
Cyber Essentials
UK

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (9.84%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.15%) Azure
2 15 (24.59%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (13.11%) AWS
4 5 (8.20%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (6.56%) GCP
5 4 (6.56%) IaaS
5 4 (6.56%) PaaS
6 3 (4.92%) SaaS
7 2 (3.28%) GitHub
7 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.64%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.64%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.64%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) Firewall
2 6 (9.84%) DNS
3 3 (4.92%) Intranet
3 3 (4.92%) LAN
3 3 (4.92%) Network Security
3 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.92%) VPN
4 2 (3.28%) DHCP
4 2 (3.28%) DMZ
4 2 (3.28%) SSL
4 2 (3.28%) WAN
5 1 (1.64%) BGP
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.64%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.64%) OSPF
5 1 (1.64%) SNMP
5 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
1 2 (3.28%) GitLab
1 2 (3.28%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) Git
General
1 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Finance
3 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.64%) Advertising
6 1 (1.64%) Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.64%) Local Government
6 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Architect
2 6 (9.84%) Analyst
2 6 (9.84%) Security Analyst
2 6 (9.84%) Security Specialist
3 5 (8.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 5 (8.20%) Information Security Specialist
3 5 (8.20%) Information Specialist
3 5 (8.20%) IT Manager
3 5 (8.20%) Security Engineer
3 5 (8.20%) Senior
4 4 (6.56%) Consultant
4 4 (6.56%) Service Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Compliance Manager
5 3 (4.92%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Governance Manager
5 3 (4.92%) IT Governance Manager
5 3 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Security Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Security Consultant
5 3 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) SAML
2 3 (4.92%) OAuth
2 3 (4.92%) REST
3 2 (3.28%) OpenID
3 2 (3.28%) SPML
4 1 (1.64%) EDI
4 1 (1.64%) JSON
4 1 (1.64%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.64%) XML
4 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.84%) Security Posture
3 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) Wiki
5 2 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.28%) NHS
5 2 (3.28%) PKI
5 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.64%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Windows
2 5 (8.20%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.92%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.28%) Android
4 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.28%) Linux
4 2 (3.28%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.64%) CentOS
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.98%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (34.43%) Information Security
3 15 (24.59%) Risk Management
4 11 (18.03%) ITIL
5 10 (16.39%) Project Management
6 9 (14.75%) Business Continuity
6 9 (14.75%) Data Protection
6 9 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (14.75%) IT Strategy
7 8 (13.11%) Information Management
7 8 (13.11%) Security Architecture
7 8 (13.11%) Service Management
7 8 (13.11%) Vulnerability Management
8 6 (9.84%) Agile
8 6 (9.84%) Asset Management
8 6 (9.84%) Business Strategy
8 6 (9.84%) Incident Response
8 6 (9.84%) ISMS
8 6 (9.84%) Migration
8 6 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.75%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.56%) Python
3 2 (3.28%) Bash
3 2 (3.28%) Go
3 2 (3.28%) SQL
4 1 (1.64%) C#
4 1 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) Degree
2 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
3 8 (13.11%) CISSP
4 7 (11.48%) SC Cleared
5 6 (9.84%) CISM
6 3 (4.92%) CISA
6 3 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (3.28%) ISACA
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.64%) CCNP
8 1 (1.64%) CEH
8 1 (1.64%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.64%) MCSE
8 1 (1.64%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (47.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (27.87%) NIST
3 15 (24.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 8 (13.11%) GDPR
4 8 (13.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 7 (11.48%) IASME
6 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 4 (6.56%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.64%) GRC
7 1 (1.64%) ISAE 3402
7 1 (1.64%) NCSC
7 1 (1.64%) QA
7 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Docker
3 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (6.56%) SCCM
2 3 (4.92%) Nessus
3 2 (3.28%) Ansible
3 2 (3.28%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.28%) Terraform
4 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (42.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.20%) Qualys
2 5 (8.20%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.56%) Cisco
3 4 (6.56%) Rapid7
4 3 (4.92%) Oracle
4 3 (4.92%) Palo Alto
4 3 (4.92%) QinetiQ
5 2 (3.28%) Adobe
5 2 (3.28%) Apple
5 2 (3.28%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.28%) CA
5 2 (3.28%) F5
6 1 (1.64%) Aruba
6 1 (1.64%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.64%) Juniper
6 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.64%) Splunk
6 1 (1.64%) VMware
6 1 (1.64%) Zscaler