Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Cyber Essentials
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.43% - 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.94% - 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £558 - -
90th Percentile £559 - -
South West median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% -4.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 102 66 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 14.76% 15.75% 18.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 40 102
10th Percentile £416 £368 £319
25th Percentile £517 £522 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £580 £545
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +6.42% -5.22%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £638
90th Percentile £706 £701 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £15.70 - -
25th Percentile £15.82 - £10.63
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £11.25
75th Percentile £18.55 - £11.88
90th Percentile £18.74 - -
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +62.50% -36.74%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 3 February 2026. 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
Corsham - 3 £538 - 4
Cyber Essentials
South West

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) TACACS
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) APMG
1 3 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) GIAC
1 3 (100.00%) GSEC
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCOM
1 3 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) VMware