Cyber Essentials PLUS Contracts in the East Midlands

Cyber Essentials PLUS
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials PLUS over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.13% - 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.76% - 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £434
25th Percentile £456 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £538
75th Percentile £469 - £616
90th Percentile - - £651
England median daily rate £555 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +11.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 131 89 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.21% 11.82% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 54 79
10th Percentile £272 £263 £278
25th Percentile £352 £333 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +11.11% +10.77%
75th Percentile £460 £609 £565
90th Percentile £500 £744 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 7
10th Percentile £15.12 - £10.76
25th Percentile £18.97 £12.75 £15.39
Median hourly rate £21.92 £19.64 £31.76
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -38.15% +61.51%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 £67.50
90th Percentile £28.68 £43.53 £70.00
England median hourly rate £31.64 £26.62 £35.50
% change year-on-year +18.86% -25.01% +57.78%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the East Midlands

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cyber Essentials PLUS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cyber Essentials PLUS

Cyber Essentials PLUS
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire - 1 £463 - 2
Cyber Essentials PLUS
England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Security Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft