Cyber Essentials PLUS Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Cyber Essentials PLUS
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 1.00% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £550 £530 -
% change year-on-year +3.77% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 22 9 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 22.00% 7.83% 18.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 6
10th Percentile £358 £156 £394
25th Percentile £431 £227 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -28.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £575 £463 £666
90th Percentile £610 - £694
South East median daily rate £532 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +6.30% +4.17% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.35 - -
South East median hourly rate £43.75 £17.96 £53.50
% change year-on-year +143.60% -66.43% +7.00%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Cyber Essentials PLUS job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 20 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
Brighton - 1 - -
Cyber Essentials PLUS
South East

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft