Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Cyber Essentials
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.95% - 0.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.76% - 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £230 - -
25th Percentile £275 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £350 - £200
% change year-on-year - - -66.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 63 57 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 19.94% 12.90% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 15 23
10th Percentile £225 £278 £266
25th Percentile £331 £391 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +29.41%
75th Percentile £669 £631 £631
90th Percentile £700 £662 £676
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 10
10th Percentile - - £65.03
25th Percentile - £28.00 £77.10
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £83.40
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -34.05% +42.94%
75th Percentile - £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - £83.56
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £68.50
% change year-on-year -52.14% +2.19% +26.85%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Cyber Essentials.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in Gloucestershire

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Gloucester - 3 £350 - 2
Cyber Essentials
South West

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Coordinator
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Information Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Security Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft