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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 63 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +32
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 8 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.94% 0.39% 1.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.37% 3.09% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile £379 £151 £420
25th Percentile £409 £209 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £308 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.41% -38.50% -
75th Percentile £650 £404 £575
90th Percentile - £462 £630
England median daily rate £568 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +12.94% -4.29% +13.51%

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 149 97 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.57% 12.75% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 57 69
10th Percentile £320 £258 £242
25th Percentile £360 £319 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% +10.43%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £525
90th Percentile £600 £623 £675
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £15.12 £18.97 £10.76
25th Percentile £17.69 £27.14 £13.72
Median hourly rate £20.83 £41.50 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year -49.81% +102.34% +4.30%
75th Percentile £25.11 £48.63 £50.88
90th Percentile £29.88 £52.45 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +54.64%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in the East Midlands

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 16 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire +3 3 £650 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 3 £463 - 2
Northamptonshire -10 2 £413 +34.15%
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 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Security Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Information Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
1 3 (37.50%) Information Security
1 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) ISMS
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Security Management
3 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Management
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CISM
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) VMware