Cyber Essentials Contracts in Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 97 124
Rank change year-on-year +7 +27 +15
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.20% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.28% 1.35% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £533 - £331
25th Percentile £544 - £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £250 £363
Median % change year-on-year +130.00% -31.03% -19.44%
75th Percentile £594 - £397
90th Percentile £598 - £410
England median daily rate £550 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +6.80% -6.36% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 156 223 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.34% 13.20% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 128 170
10th Percentile £210 £276 £300
25th Percentile £313 £377 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -7.18% +18.82%
75th Percentile £553 £585 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 8
10th Percentile - - £12.59
25th Percentile - £10.86 £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.93 £28.86
Median % change year-on-year +102.56% -62.13% +28.74%
75th Percentile £25.14 £14.22 £49.08
90th Percentile £34.24 £27.41 £50.22
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
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 within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Yorkshire +6 1 £550 +120.00% 4
West Yorkshire - 1 £600 - 9
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft