Cyber Essentials Job Trends in Bedford

Cyber Essentials
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bedford requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 21 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 1 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedford 0.87% 3.39% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% 28.57% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £83,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median annual salary £82,500 - £42,250

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedford

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Bedford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3 7 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 2.61% 11.86% 14.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 17
10th Percentile £38,000 - £19,550
25th Percentile £45,125 £31,250 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £32,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.38% +30.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £70,375 £56,875 -
90th Percentile £78,400 £70,750 £33,000
Bedfordshire median annual salary £45,000 £70,000 £42,250
% change year-on-year -35.71% +65.68% -19.52%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Bedford

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Bedford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Cyber Essentials.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ForgeRock