Cyber Essentials Contracts in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 150 195
Rank change year-on-year +17 +45 -53
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 5 15 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.18% 0.44% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.32% 2.88% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 6
10th Percentile £530 £313 £214
25th Percentile £575 £334 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +46.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £775 £600 £444
90th Percentile - £603 £519
England median daily rate £508 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.73% +10.00% +2.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 379 521 661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.89% 15.13% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 341 476
10th Percentile £255 £250 £210
25th Percentile £351 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £550
90th Percentile £753 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £524
% change year-on-year - +0.19% +10.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 13 16
10th Percentile £11.34 £11.30 £10.00
25th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £12.06
Median hourly rate £14.25 £20.00 £17.05
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% +17.28% +6.58%
75th Percentile £27.92 £27.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £51.02 £25.31
England median hourly rate £22.04 £41.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -46.90% +50.91% +30.95%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
West Midlands +19 3 £750 +36.36% 6
East Midlands - 2 £600 - 11
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft