Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Cyber Essentials
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.34% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £465 £325 £600
% change year-on-year +43.08% -45.83% +84.62%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 79 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 27.24% 7.08% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 7 1
10th Percentile £329 £304 -
25th Percentile £484 £307 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £313 £480
Median % change year-on-year +65.89% -34.79% -4.00%
75th Percentile £541 £323 £495
90th Percentile £574 £341 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £12.29 - -
25th Percentile £12.42 - -
Median hourly rate £12.75 - -
75th Percentile £12.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.32 £21.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.81% -21.82% +68.40%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Shrewsbury - 1 £380 -
Cyber Essentials
West Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Security Patching
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet