Cyber Essentials PLUS Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 4.12% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £496 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cheltenham

Cyber Essentials PLUS falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 12 16 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 12.37% 7.14% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 14
10th Percentile £409 £493 £339
25th Percentile £463 £538 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £625 £455
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +37.36% +13.75%
75th Percentile £538 £644 £593
90th Percentile £579 £648 £650
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +157.14%
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £83.40
% change year-on-year +75.00% -52.04% +42.94%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Essentials PLUS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Cyber Essentials PLUS job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Aviation
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) IAM Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) IAM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) LDAP
1 4 (100.00%) OpenID
1 4 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (100.00%) Web SSO
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) PingFederate
1 4 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Ping Identity