Cyber Essentials PLUS Contracts in England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 529 610
Rank change year-on-year +73 +81 +123
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 11 13 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.036% 0.062%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.29% 0.25% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 20
10th Percentile £285 £400 £483
25th Percentile £350 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -14.89% +43.29%
75th Percentile £544 £525 £708
90th Percentile £563 £600 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% +21.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £27.73 - -
25th Percentile £28.03 - -
Median hourly rate £29.51 - -
75th Percentile £31.99 - -
90th Percentile £32.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.51 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,849 5,105 6,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.04% 14.04% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,486 3,272 4,346
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -1.77% -3.05% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 350 220
10th Percentile £18.15 £10.95 £15.21
25th Percentile £22.75 £13.18 £19.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -39.33% +31.58%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.61 £68.76 £79.78
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £21.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year +63.39% -39.67% +16.67%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in England.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials PLUS in England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
East of England - 4 £375 - 2
London +32 2 £500 - 27
Midlands +14 2 £325 -35.00% 8
West Midlands +13 2 £325 -35.00% 8
South East - 2 £550 - 17
South West - 1 - - 9
Cyber Essentials PLUS
UK

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) NAS
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
1 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Compliance Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Information Security Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) IT Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Network Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Network Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Security Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Microsoft Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Incident Response
2 5 (45.45%) Information Security
2 5 (45.45%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
3 4 (36.36%) Security Operations
4 3 (27.27%) ITIL
4 3 (27.27%) OWASP
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (27.27%) Zero Trust
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security Management
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 2 (18.18%) Security Management
5 2 (18.18%) SIEM
6 1 (9.09%) Dependency Management
6 1 (9.09%) Information Assurance
6 1 (9.09%) Line Management
6 1 (9.09%) Product Management
6 1 (9.09%) Security Architecture
6 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) CISM
1 5 (45.45%) CISSP
2 3 (27.27%) OSCP
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) CISA
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (9.09%) CREST Certified
4 1 (9.09%) CRISC
4 1 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (72.73%) NIST
3 7 (63.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (54.55%) GDPR
5 4 (36.36%) PCI DSS
6 3 (27.27%) COBIT
7 2 (18.18%) NCSC
8 1 (9.09%) GRC
8 1 (9.09%) ISO 9001
8 1 (9.09%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Dell
2 1 (9.09%) EMC
2 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) SonicWALL
2 1 (9.09%) VMware