Cyber Essentials Contracts in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 132 144
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 +58
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 6 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.17% 0.55%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.44% 1.17% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £450 - £425
25th Percentile £525 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +25.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile - £775 £600
90th Percentile - - £613
England median daily rate £550 £515 £575
% change year-on-year +6.80% -10.43% +15.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 416 427 478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.12% 14.41% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 286 303
10th Percentile £235 £240 £275
25th Percentile £350 £325 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +8.93%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £581
90th Percentile £625 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 45 20
10th Percentile £15.12 £11.40 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.17 £13.18 £19.56
Median hourly rate £25.08 £14.70 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.58% -46.55% +47.99%
75th Percentile £32.82 £33.93 £30.44
90th Percentile £37.71 £58.75 £65.50
England median hourly rate £31.76 £24.18 £40.32
% change year-on-year +31.35% -40.03% +55.08%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 July 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 Midlands +7 4 £650 +30.00% 20
West Midlands +5 2 - - 35
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Information Assurance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Information Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Industry 4.0
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Information Assurance
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) ISMS
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 1 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Security Management
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISM
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) CISA
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) VMware
1 1 (16.67%) Zscaler