Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Cyber Essentials
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 1.60% 0.67% 1.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.29% 3.33% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £356 - -
25th Percentile £394 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £350 £600
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% -41.67% -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £300 £513
% change year-on-year +54.17% -41.46% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 21 30 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 11.23% 20.13% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 18
10th Percentile £428 £341 £259
25th Percentile £456 £459 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £471
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +6.10% -14.32%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £511
90th Percentile £611 £668 £608
East Midlands median daily rate £430 £414 £450
% change year-on-year +3.74% -8.00% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £10.75
25th Percentile - - £10.76
Median hourly rate £20.83 £12.92 £10.76
Median % change year-on-year +61.22% +20.07% -
75th Percentile - - £10.77
90th Percentile - - £10.77
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.67 £31.76 £17.95
% change year-on-year -34.93% +76.99% -8.75%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in Nottinghamshire

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Nottingham - 3 £463 - 2
Cyber Essentials
East Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Security Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Information Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft