Cyber Essentials Contracts in the North of England

Cyber Essentials
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 207 233
Rank change year-on-year +32 +26 -47
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 10 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.17% 0.098%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.38% 1.25% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 7
10th Percentile £294 £329 £265
25th Percentile £313 £346 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £413 £350
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +17.86% -20.00%
75th Percentile £650 £497 £575
90th Percentile £658 £513 £610
England median daily rate £508 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.73% +10.00% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 727 797 944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.49% 13.72% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 495 674
10th Percentile £323 £288 £190
25th Percentile £413 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 40 55
10th Percentile - £17.61 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £29.30 £12.02
Median hourly rate £12.84 £39.80 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -67.74% +112.83% +7.78%
75th Percentile £26.66 £49.43 £27.88
90th Percentile £48.75 £68.30 £51.36
England median hourly rate £22.34 £36.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -38.37% +31.82% +30.95%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the North of England

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in the North of England

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in the North of England

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
North West +26 7 £400 -13.51% 18
Yorkshire +21 3 £250 -35.48% 15
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Intranet
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (60.00%) Information Security
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Project Management
2 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (30.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Information Management
3 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Go
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (20.00%) CISM
1 2 (20.00%) CISSP
1 2 (20.00%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) IASME
2 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (30.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (30.00%) NIST
4 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco