Cyber Essentials PLUS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials PLUS
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Essentials PLUS over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 409 491
Rank change year-on-year +23 +82 -75
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 9 43 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.18% 0.080%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.29% 1.20% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 33 23
10th Percentile £380 £500 £262
25th Percentile £463 £506 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +51.43% -46.15%
75th Percentile - £575 £528
90th Percentile £514 £721 £646
UK median daily rate £500 £537 £450
% change year-on-year -6.93% +19.39% -10.89%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials PLUS is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,152 3,569 4,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.17% 14.74% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,837 2,395 3,083
10th Percentile £253 £213 £201
25th Percentile £370 £361 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 188 193
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.50 £11.36
25th Percentile £12.43 £18.21 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £35.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -49.37% +66.27% +0.24%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.31 £47.40
90th Percentile £65.95 £77.50 £66.68
UK median hourly rate £20.46 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -45.44% +31.58% +35.55%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials PLUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Scotland +7 4 £488 -7.14%
North of England +39 3 £350 - 10
Yorkshire +27 2 - - 4
Midlands +35 1 £500 - 5
West Midlands +29 1 £500 - 4
North West +17 1 £350 - 5
South East +8 1 £515 -25.63% 7
Cyber Essentials PLUS
UK

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Information Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Information Assurance Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) Information Security
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Business Transformation
4 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
5 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 1 (11.11%) Email Filtering
5 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Supplier Management
5 1 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (22.22%) CISM
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) ISACA
1 2 (22.22%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (22.22%) MCSE
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (33.33%) IASME
3 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (11.11%) NCSC
3 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) VMware