Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Cyber Essentials
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 3.81% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.57% - -
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 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 14 6 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 13.33% 3.70% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 13
10th Percentile £424 £493 £359
25th Percentile £463 £538 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +8.70% +46.03%
75th Percentile £538 £644 £600
90th Percentile £579 £648 £650
Gloucestershire median daily rate £513 £475 £595
% change year-on-year +7.89% -20.17% +48.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - £70.00 £83.40
% change year-on-year - -16.07% +35.55%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Cyber Essentials.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
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 PLUS
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