Cyber Essentials PLUS Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials PLUS
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.076% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -14.89%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials PLUS 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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 360 162 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.62% 15.14% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 108 123
10th Percentile £349 £235 £268
25th Percentile £431 £284 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -8.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £586
90th Percentile £684 £600 £645
England median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 10
10th Percentile £15.83 - -
25th Percentile £22.03 - £10.86
Median hourly rate £28.20 £22.14 £11.44
Median % change year-on-year +27.36% +93.53% -46.79%
75th Percentile £34.77 - £12.63
90th Percentile £36.61 £34.18 £21.32
England median hourly rate £33.98 £34.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -1.51% +50.00% -41.92%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Cyber Essentials PLUS job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Cyber Essentials PLUS

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
North Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
West Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Cyber Essentials PLUS
England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft