Cyber Essentials
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 428 541
Rank change year-on-year +48 +113 +74
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 667 741 987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.73% 0.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.92% 3.86% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 582 383 506
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,417 £35,050
25th Percentile £41,125 £43,613 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +13.21%
75th Percentile £65,750 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,565 19,200 26,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.68% 18.91% 16.90%
Number of salaries quoted 9,250 8,910 13,145
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,665
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.90% +0.35%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in the UK

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in the UK

Cyber Essentials
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England +67 611 £55,000 - 143
UK excluding London +30 508 £52,500 -4.55% 107
Work from Home +2 257 £55,000 -4.35% 64
North of England +12 157 £52,000 +15.56% 34
London +49 124 £65,000 +14.04% 33
South East +56 117 £55,000 - 28
Midlands +73 112 £50,000 -10.71% 18
West Midlands +77 99 £55,000 +3.77% 7
North West -44 81 £55,000 +22.22% 17
South West -51 66 £55,000 - 13
Yorkshire +89 52 £55,000 -12.00% 15
East of England +24 32 £47,500 -17.39% 8
North East +15 24 £41,000 -25.45% 2
Scotland -61 19 £45,000 -18.18% 4
East Midlands -9 13 £45,000 -20.35% 11
Wales -9 5 £40,500 -32.50% 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 44 (6.60%) SharePoint
2 27 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.20%) WordPress
4 6 (0.90%) nginx
5 4 (0.60%) Confluence
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Drupal
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 70 (10.49%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (9.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (6.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.30%) Farmplan
2 2 (0.30%) KEYPrime
2 2 (0.30%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 241 (36.13%) Microsoft 365
2 232 (34.78%) Azure
3 99 (14.84%) Entra ID
4 61 (9.15%) AWS
5 38 (5.70%) Cloud Computing
6 29 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 27 (4.05%) SaaS
8 23 (3.45%) IaaS
9 16 (2.40%) Google Workspace
10 14 (2.10%) PaaS
11 11 (1.65%) OneDrive
12 9 (1.35%) GCP
13 8 (1.20%) WhatsApp
14 6 (0.90%) npm
14 6 (0.90%) Serverless
14 6 (0.90%) Yarn
15 5 (0.75%) Mimecast
15 5 (0.75%) Nutanix
16 4 (0.60%) Power Automate
16 4 (0.60%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 159 (23.84%) Firewall
2 53 (7.95%) LAN
2 53 (7.95%) WAN
3 50 (7.50%) DNS
4 33 (4.95%) NAS
5 29 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (3.90%) Wireless
7 25 (3.75%) DHCP
7 25 (3.75%) Network Security
8 23 (3.45%) MPLS
9 21 (3.15%) VLAN
10 18 (2.70%) SD-WAN
11 17 (2.55%) Intranet
11 17 (2.55%) TCP/IP
11 17 (2.55%) VoIP
11 17 (2.55%) VPN
12 16 (2.40%) Intrusion Detection
13 14 (2.10%) 4G
13 14 (2.10%) 5G
14 12 (1.80%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.90%) Power BI
2 11 (1.65%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.90%) MongoDB
3 6 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.15%) Lumira
6 1 (0.15%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Cypress.io
1 6 (0.90%) JIRA
1 6 (0.90%) Mocha
2 1 (0.15%) GitLab
2 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 262 (39.28%) Social Skills
2 89 (13.34%) Finance
3 65 (9.75%) Public Sector
4 61 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (8.25%) Law
6 41 (6.15%) Legal
7 29 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.55%) Games
9 15 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.10%) Retail
11 13 (1.95%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.20%) Automotive
15 8 (1.20%) Local Government
16 6 (0.90%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.90%) Military
17 5 (0.75%) Publishing
18 4 (0.60%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 107 (16.04%) Analyst
2 80 (11.99%) Security Analyst
3 79 (11.84%) IT Manager
4 73 (10.94%) Security Manager
5 55 (8.25%) Senior
6 48 (7.20%) Consultant
7 43 (6.45%) Lead
8 37 (5.55%) Service Manager
9 36 (5.40%) Information Analyst
9 36 (5.40%) Information Security Analyst
9 36 (5.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (5.25%) IT Support
11 31 (4.65%) Architect
12 29 (4.35%) Security Consultant
13 28 (4.20%) Information Security Manager
14 26 (3.90%) Information Manager
14 26 (3.90%) IT Engineer
15 25 (3.75%) Technical Manager
16 23 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 22 (3.30%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.80%) OAuth
2 9 (1.35%) SAML
3 8 (1.20%) ModSecurity
4 6 (0.90%) .NET
4 6 (0.90%) AngularJS
4 6 (0.90%) Express.js
4 6 (0.90%) GraphQL
4 6 (0.90%) gRPC
4 6 (0.90%) Jest
4 6 (0.90%) JWT
4 6 (0.90%) Kafka
4 6 (0.90%) MEAN Stack
4 6 (0.90%) MERN Stack
4 6 (0.90%) Mongoose
4 6 (0.90%) NestJS
4 6 (0.90%) Node.js
4 6 (0.90%) OAuth2
4 6 (0.90%) OpenAPI
4 6 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (0.90%) React
Miscellaneous
1 91 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 66 (9.90%) Driving Licence
3 47 (7.05%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (5.10%) Security Posture
5 28 (4.20%) Cyber Threat
6 27 (4.05%) Onboarding
7 26 (3.90%) Data Centre
8 25 (3.75%) IoT
9 23 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (3.30%) NHS
11 13 (1.95%) Cloud Native
12 12 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
14 9 (1.35%) ARM Cortex
14 9 (1.35%) CCTV
14 9 (1.35%) PKI
15 8 (1.20%) Cyberattack
16 7 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (1.05%) Public Cloud
16 7 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 151 (22.64%) Windows
2 100 (14.99%) Windows Server
3 37 (5.55%) Windows 10
4 28 (4.20%) Linux
5 22 (3.30%) Mac OS
6 20 (3.00%) Apple iOS
7 19 (2.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (2.40%) Android
9 8 (1.20%) VMS
10 7 (1.05%) Debian
10 7 (1.05%) Ubuntu
10 7 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.45%) Unix
12 2 (0.30%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.15%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (48.28%) Cybersecurity
2 251 (37.63%) Information Security
3 169 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
4 123 (18.44%) ITIL
5 97 (14.54%) Incident Response
6 77 (11.54%) Data Protection
7 70 (10.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 70 (10.49%) Risk Management
7 70 (10.49%) SIEM
8 68 (10.19%) Business Continuity
9 60 (9.00%) Security Management
10 59 (8.85%) Customer Service
10 59 (8.85%) Penetration Testing
11 57 (8.55%) Service Delivery
12 56 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 56 (8.40%) Security Operations
13 49 (7.35%) Disaster Recovery
13 49 (7.35%) Vulnerability Management
14 42 (6.30%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 41 (6.15%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 26 (3.90%) SQL
2 21 (3.15%) Bash
3 17 (2.55%) PowerShell
3 17 (2.55%) Python
4 11 (1.65%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.05%) Java
6 6 (0.90%) Kotlin
6 6 (0.90%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.30%) Bicep
8 1 (0.15%) ABAP
8 1 (0.15%) C#
8 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 100 (14.99%) CISSP
1 100 (14.99%) Security Cleared
2 89 (13.34%) Degree
3 69 (10.34%) CISM
4 53 (7.95%) Cisco Certification
5 48 (7.20%) CISA
6 34 (5.10%) SC Cleared
7 30 (4.50%) Azure Certification
8 27 (4.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 26 (3.90%) CCNA
10 24 (3.60%) CCSP
10 24 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 21 (3.15%) DBS Check
13 20 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
14 19 (2.85%) CRISC
15 18 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
16 17 (2.55%) CCNP
17 14 (2.10%) AWS Certification
17 14 (2.10%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 377 (56.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 170 (25.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 156 (23.39%) GDPR
4 129 (19.34%) NIST
5 51 (7.65%) ISO 9001
6 49 (7.35%) PCI DSS
7 45 (6.75%) GRC
8 40 (6.00%) NCSC
9 37 (5.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 26 (3.90%) SLA
10 26 (3.90%) SOC 2
11 24 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 19 (2.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (2.10%) QA
14 10 (1.50%) COSHH
15 9 (1.35%) COBIT
16 7 (1.05%) IASME
16 7 (1.05%) PMO
17 6 (0.90%) Accessibility
17 6 (0.90%) NIST 800
System Software
1 123 (18.44%) Active Directory
2 53 (7.95%) Hyper-V
3 27 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.40%) Docker
6 5 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.30%) pfSense
9 2 (0.30%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.30%) vSphere
10 1 (0.15%) LXC
Systems Management
1 65 (9.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (6.15%) Single Sign-On
3 37 (5.55%) EnCase
4 25 (3.75%) FortiGate
5 9 (1.35%) Terraform
6 8 (1.20%) Kubernetes
7 6 (0.90%) Grafana
7 6 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.90%) WSUS
8 5 (0.75%) Nessus
8 5 (0.75%) SCCM
8 5 (0.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.45%) PaperCut
10 2 (0.30%) Ansible
10 2 (0.30%) CASB
10 2 (0.30%) QRadar
11 1 (0.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 305 (45.73%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.55%) Cisco
3 54 (8.10%) VMware
4 32 (4.80%) Fortinet
5 27 (4.05%) Sophos
6 22 (3.30%) Apple
7 20 (3.00%) Darktrace
7 20 (3.00%) Veeam
8 18 (2.70%) Google
8 18 (2.70%) HP
9 14 (2.10%) Dell
9 14 (2.10%) NEC
10 13 (1.95%) Mitel
11 12 (1.80%) Citrix
12 10 (1.50%) Meraki
13 9 (1.35%) Acronis
13 9 (1.35%) Aruba
13 9 (1.35%) Ribbon
14 8 (1.20%) Barracuda Networks
15 7 (1.05%) Draytek