Cyber Essentials Contracts in the North of England

Cyber Essentials
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 175 209
Rank change year-on-year +12 +34 +17
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 3 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.091% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.64% 1.34% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile £540 £294 £331
25th Percentile £563 £313 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £375 £413
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £706 £650 £497
90th Percentile £770 £658 £513
England median daily rate £550 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +6.80% -6.36% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 471 745 813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.29% 15.63% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 418 493
10th Percentile £235 £320 £288
25th Percentile £371 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £698 £672 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 85 40
10th Percentile £14.27 - £13.47
25th Percentile £22.14 £10.95 £29.30
Median hourly rate £24.67 £12.84 £38.55
Median % change year-on-year +92.15% -66.69% +106.15%
75th Percentile £39.69 £26.66 £49.08
90th Percentile £79.39 £48.75 £58.45
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the North of England

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in the North of England

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in the North of England

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Yorkshire +7 2 £575 +130.00% 26
North East - 1 £775 - 6
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
201 Cyber Essentials jobs in England