Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Cyber Essentials
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 86 -
Rank change year-on-year -27 - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 2 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.091% 0.48% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.54% 2.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £426 £244 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £249 -
Median % change year-on-year +82.73% - -
75th Percentile £486 £254 -
90th Percentile £504 - -
England median daily rate £540 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -6.09% +15.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £31.49 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £31.49 -
% change year-on-year +100.49% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 368 208 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.77% 16.48% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 91 66
10th Percentile £354 £206 £254
25th Percentile £425 £323 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £405
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +23.46% -14.74%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £625 £581
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 43 23
10th Percentile £12.84 £13.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.14 £14.93
Median hourly rate £27.96 £31.64 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +31.83% +20.30%
75th Percentile £65.63 £88.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £80.00 £91.50 £67.50
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 of England

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in the East of England

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Cyber Essentials
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cyber Essentials.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £400 - 6
Bedfordshire - 1 £510 - 4
Cyber Essentials
England

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) MSI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) VMware