Cyber Essentials Jobs in the South East

Cyber Essentials
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Cyber Essentials skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 317 392
Rank change year-on-year +43 +75 -53
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 116 79 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.69% 0.55% 0.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.76% 2.99% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 100 55 84
10th Percentile £32,500 £44,250 £39,575
25th Percentile £42,547 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +13.21%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,375 £71,875
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,435 2,643 3,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.48% 18.27% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,608 1,278 1,891
10th Percentile £24,500 £29,400 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,612 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,125 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,125 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the South East

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the South East.

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in the South East

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in the South East

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -1 42 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Thames Valley +53 40 £50,500 +1.00% 13
Kent +11 20 £55,000 -29.03% 4
Oxfordshire +26 17 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Buckinghamshire -7 12 £50,500 -4.72% 2
Berkshire +36 11 £57,500 +16.91% 9
West Sussex +27 5 £67,500 +12.50% 3
Surrey -27 4 £73,750 +47.50% 3
East Sussex - 3 £75,000 - 3
Sussex - 2 £68,750 - 1
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
1 3 (2.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (46.55%) Azure
2 35 (30.17%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 14 (12.07%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (8.62%) AWS
6 3 (2.59%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.72%) IaaS
7 2 (1.72%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.86%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (37.93%) Firewall
2 27 (23.28%) WAN
3 17 (14.66%) LAN
4 14 (12.07%) 4G
4 14 (12.07%) 5G
4 14 (12.07%) MPLS
5 13 (11.21%) NAS
6 8 (6.90%) DNS
6 8 (6.90%) Network Security
6 8 (6.90%) VPN
6 8 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (6.03%) VLAN
8 6 (5.17%) TCP/IP
9 4 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (3.45%) iSCSI
9 4 (3.45%) VoIP
10 3 (2.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.59%) Power BI
2 1 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (0.86%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (0.86%) Lumira
2 1 (0.86%) SAP BW
General
1 44 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.79%) Telecoms
3 14 (12.07%) Finance
4 8 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.17%) Law
7 5 (4.31%) Retail
8 4 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.59%) Publishing
10 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (14.66%) IT Manager
2 13 (11.21%) Administrator
2 13 (11.21%) Systems Administrator
3 11 (9.48%) Service Manager
3 11 (9.48%) Technical Manager
4 9 (7.76%) Senior
4 9 (7.76%) Systems Engineer
4 9 (7.76%) Technical Services Manager
5 8 (6.90%) Architect
5 8 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (6.90%) Lead
5 8 (6.90%) Security Architect
5 8 (6.90%) Security Manager
6 7 (6.03%) Analyst
6 7 (6.03%) Information Architect
6 7 (6.03%) Information Security Architect
6 7 (6.03%) Security Analyst
7 5 (4.31%) Developer
7 5 (4.31%) Infrastructure Support
7 5 (4.31%) IT Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.38%) Driving Licence
1 19 (16.38%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (14.66%) IoT
3 16 (13.79%) Management Information System
4 9 (7.76%) ARM Cortex
4 9 (7.76%) NHS
4 9 (7.76%) PKI
4 9 (7.76%) Security Posture
5 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.45%) Replication
7 3 (2.59%) Clustering
8 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.72%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.72%) iPhone
9 1 (0.86%) CCTV
9 1 (0.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 37 (31.90%) Windows
2 23 (19.83%) Windows Server
3 11 (9.48%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.45%) Android
4 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (50.86%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (27.59%) Information Security
3 26 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (12.93%) Data Management
5 14 (12.07%) Project Management
6 13 (11.21%) Incident Response
6 13 (11.21%) ITIL
7 12 (10.34%) SIEM
8 11 (9.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (8.62%) Decision-Making
9 10 (8.62%) Security Management
9 10 (8.62%) Time Management
10 9 (7.76%) Change Control
10 9 (7.76%) Information Governance
10 9 (7.76%) Infrastructure Management
10 9 (7.76%) IT Strategy
10 9 (7.76%) Mentoring
10 9 (7.76%) Security Operations
11 8 (6.90%) Regulatory Compliance
11 8 (6.90%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.03%) SQL
2 3 (2.59%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.86%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 22 (18.97%) Degree
1 22 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.79%) CISSP
3 11 (9.48%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (9.48%) DBS Check
4 10 (8.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (8.62%) CTC Cleared
5 8 (6.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 8 (6.90%) CCSK
5 8 (6.90%) CCSP
6 5 (4.31%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.31%) CISM
6 5 (4.31%) MCSE
6 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.45%) CRISC
8 3 (2.59%) CCNA
8 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.59%) MCP
8 3 (2.59%) MCSA
8 3 (2.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (51.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (41.38%) GDPR
3 27 (23.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 15 (12.93%) NIST
5 10 (8.62%) COSHH
5 10 (8.62%) NCSC
6 8 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 7 (6.03%) PCI DSS
8 5 (4.31%) GRC
8 5 (4.31%) ISO 9001
9 3 (2.59%) SOC 2
10 2 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (24.14%) Active Directory
1 28 (24.14%) Hyper-V
2 8 (6.90%) Docker
3 5 (4.31%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.72%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (14.66%) FortiGate
2 11 (9.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (7.76%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.45%) WSUS
5 2 (1.72%) Ansible
5 2 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (37.07%) Microsoft
2 20 (17.24%) Cisco
3 14 (12.07%) Darktrace
3 14 (12.07%) HP
3 14 (12.07%) NEC
4 10 (8.62%) VMware
5 9 (7.76%) Mitel
5 9 (7.76%) Ribbon
6 5 (4.31%) Veeam
7 4 (3.45%) Barracuda Networks
7 4 (3.45%) ESET
8 3 (2.59%) Draytek
8 3 (2.59%) NETGEAR
8 3 (2.59%) Ubiquiti
9 2 (1.72%) Apple
9 2 (1.72%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.72%) Facebook
9 2 (1.72%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.72%) Meraki
10 1 (0.86%) SAP