Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in Durham

Cyber Essentials
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 1.72% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £500 £775 -
% change year-on-year -35.48% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 5.17% 6.98% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £293 - -
25th Percentile £319 £263 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £275 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.82% - -
75th Percentile £484 £288 -
90th Percentile £524 - -
North East median daily rate £450 £460 £500
% change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £38.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.25
% change year-on-year - - +78.48%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Durham

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler