Cyber Essentials Contracts

Cyber Essentials
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 551 699
Rank change year-on-year +50 +148 -69
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 84 142 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.37% 1.82% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 106 107
10th Percentile £228 £403 £244
25th Percentile £394 £500 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £547 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +9.45% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £675 £775 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £545 £450
% change year-on-year -8.26% +21.11% +5.88%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £43.95
% change year-on-year - - +109.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,115 7,793 11,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.28% 13.42% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,875 5,360 8,003
10th Percentile £288 £280 £294
25th Percentile £400 £413 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £621
90th Percentile £750 £738 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +0.89% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 234 298
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.01
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.55 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.28% +27.27% +30.95%
75th Percentile £45.00 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £77.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £32.94 £21.04
% change year-on-year -45.36% +56.57% +0.07%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the UK

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in the UK

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in the UK

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Essentials in the UK

Cyber Essentials
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +67 65 £515 -8.44% 143
UK excluding London +41 50 £500 -8.26% 107
London +73 30 £500 -14.89% 33
Work from Home +81 26 £538 +2.38% 61
Scotland +33 17 £500 -8.17% 4
North of England +26 10 £375 -3.23% 34
South West +21 9 £575 +24.32% 14
North West +23 7 £400 -0.31% 16
South East +7 7 £170 -72.80% 28
Midlands +24 6 £675 +12.50% 17
West Midlands +14 4 £750 +25.00% 6
Yorkshire +27 3 £250 -35.48% 16
East Midlands - 2 £600 - 11
Wales - 1 £250 - 3

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.76%) Confluence
3 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.38%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 20 (23.81%) Azure
2 17 (20.24%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (11.90%) AWS
4 6 (7.14%) GCP
5 5 (5.95%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (4.76%) IaaS
6 4 (4.76%) PaaS
7 3 (3.57%) SaaS
8 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.38%) GitHub
8 2 (2.38%) npm
8 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.38%) Serverless
8 2 (2.38%) Yarn
9 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.19%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.19%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.19%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.19%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.10%) Firewall
2 6 (7.14%) DNS
3 4 (4.76%) Network Security
4 3 (3.57%) Intranet
4 3 (3.57%) LAN
4 3 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.57%) VPN
5 2 (2.38%) AMQP
5 2 (2.38%) DHCP
5 2 (2.38%) DMZ
5 2 (2.38%) SSL
5 2 (2.38%) WAN
6 1 (1.19%) BGP
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.19%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.19%) OSPF
6 1 (1.19%) SNMP
6 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) JIRA
2 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.38%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.38%) GitLab
2 2 (2.38%) Mocha
3 1 (1.19%) Git
General
1 17 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.48%) Public Sector
3 11 (13.10%) Finance
4 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.57%) Legal
6 2 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Advertising
7 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.19%) Local Government
7 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
7 1 (1.19%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (17.86%) Architect
2 9 (10.71%) Senior
3 8 (9.52%) Analyst
3 8 (9.52%) Security Analyst
3 8 (9.52%) Security Engineer
4 7 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 7 (8.33%) Security Advisor
4 7 (8.33%) Security Specialist
5 5 (5.95%) Consultant
5 5 (5.95%) Information Security Specialist
5 5 (5.95%) Information Specialist
5 5 (5.95%) IT Manager
5 5 (5.95%) Lead
6 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Security Architect
6 4 (4.76%) Security Consultant
6 4 (4.76%) Service Architect
6 4 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.57%) Compliance Manager
7 3 (3.57%) IT Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) OAuth
1 5 (5.95%) SAML
2 3 (3.57%) OAuth2
2 3 (3.57%) REST
3 2 (2.38%) .NET
3 2 (2.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.38%) Express.js
3 2 (2.38%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.38%) gRPC
3 2 (2.38%) JWT
3 2 (2.38%) Kafka
3 2 (2.38%) MEAN Stack
3 2 (2.38%) MERN Stack
3 2 (2.38%) Mongoose
3 2 (2.38%) NestJS
3 2 (2.38%) Node.js
3 2 (2.38%) OpenID
3 2 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.38%) React
3 2 (2.38%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Management Information System
1 10 (11.90%) Security Posture
2 9 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 8 (9.52%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.57%) PKI
5 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.57%) Wiki
6 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.38%) NHS
6 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.19%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.29%) Windows
2 5 (5.95%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.57%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.38%) Android
4 2 (2.38%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.38%) Linux
4 2 (2.38%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.19%) CentOS
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (52.38%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (29.76%) Information Security
3 23 (27.38%) Risk Management
4 17 (20.24%) Security Architecture
5 13 (15.48%) ITIL
6 11 (13.10%) Project Management
7 10 (11.90%) Data Protection
7 10 (11.90%) Vulnerability Management
8 9 (10.71%) Business Continuity
8 9 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (10.71%) IT Strategy
8 9 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.52%) Agile
9 8 (9.52%) Incident Response
9 8 (9.52%) Information Management
9 8 (9.52%) Service Management
9 8 (9.52%) Threat Modelling
10 7 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (7.14%) Asset Management
11 6 (7.14%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.76%) Python
3 2 (2.38%) Bash
3 2 (2.38%) Go
3 2 (2.38%) Java
3 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.38%) Kotlin
3 2 (2.38%) SQL
3 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.19%) C#
4 1 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 18 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (15.48%) Degree
4 11 (13.10%) CISSP
5 6 (7.14%) CISM
6 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.57%) CISA
7 3 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.57%) MCSE
8 2 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.38%) ISACA
8 2 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.19%) CCNP
9 1 (1.19%) CEH
9 1 (1.19%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.19%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (52.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (34.52%) NIST
3 21 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 8 (9.52%) GDPR
4 8 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 7 (8.33%) IASME
5 7 (8.33%) PCI DSS
6 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (3.57%) NCSC
8 2 (2.38%) PMO
9 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (1.19%) GRC
9 1 (1.19%) ISAE 3402
9 1 (1.19%) QA
9 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.76%) Docker
3 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (5.95%) Nessus
1 5 (5.95%) SCCM
2 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.38%) Ansible
3 2 (2.38%) Grafana
3 2 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.38%) Terraform
4 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.14%) Rapid7
3 5 (5.95%) Qualys
3 5 (5.95%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.76%) Cisco
4 4 (4.76%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.57%) Oracle
5 3 (3.57%) QinetiQ
6 2 (2.38%) Adobe
6 2 (2.38%) Apple
6 2 (2.38%) CA
6 2 (2.38%) F5
6 2 (2.38%) VMware
7 1 (1.19%) Aruba
7 1 (1.19%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.19%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.19%) Juniper
7 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.19%) Splunk