Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cyber Essentials
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 62 62
Rank change year-on-year -20 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 2 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.16% 0.92% 0.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.31% 5.34% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £408 £151
25th Percentile £450 £434 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £308
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +50.41% -38.50%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £404
90th Percentile - - £462
England median daily rate £525 £575 £503
% change year-on-year -8.70% +14.43% -4.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 153 131 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.07% 17.21% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 102 59
10th Percentile £256 £282 £263
25th Percentile £400 £358 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -18.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £538 £468 £606
90th Percentile £641 £500 £722
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 9
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.12 -
25th Percentile £12.78 £17.69 £12.75
Median hourly rate £14.82 £20.83 £13.52
Median % change year-on-year -28.88% +54.07% -34.08%
75th Percentile £16.46 £25.11 £26.15
90th Percentile £21.22 £29.88 £44.80
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Cyber Essentials
Contract 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 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 September 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire -12 1 £500 -23.08% 5
Nottinghamshire -19 1 - -
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft