Cyber Essentials Jobs in Berkshire

Cyber Essentials
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 148 181
Rank change year-on-year +38 +33 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 14 12 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.86% 0.39% 0.032%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.09% 2.72% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 1
10th Percentile £52,625 £23,500 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £40,563 £46,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £49,182
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +6.75% -43.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £59,688 £52,065
90th Percentile - £62,500 -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 275 441 676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.87% 14.34% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 107 253 280
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,300 £27,960
25th Percentile £48,250 £36,250 £39,533
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £52,500 £45,600
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% +15.13% -17.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £92,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £62,000 £45,125 £51,000
% change year-on-year +37.40% -11.52% -2.86%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in Berkshire

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in Berkshire

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in Berkshire

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +66 10 £62,500 +16.28% 11
Cyber Essentials
South East

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 5 (35.71%) Network Security
3 4 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (28.57%) VPN
4 1 (7.14%) LAN
4 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Publishing
3 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
4 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Governance Manager
1 6 (42.86%) Information Governance Manager
1 6 (42.86%) Information Manager
1 6 (42.86%) Information Security Manager
1 6 (42.86%) Security Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (21.43%) IT Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Security
3 2 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (42.86%) Freedom of Information
2 6 (42.86%) Freedom of Information Act
3 4 (28.57%) Operational Technology
3 4 (28.57%) Security Posture
4 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
1 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (50.00%) Information Security
3 6 (42.86%) Data Protection
3 6 (42.86%) Incident Management
3 6 (42.86%) Information Security Management
3 6 (42.86%) ISMS
3 6 (42.86%) Psychology
3 6 (42.86%) Security Management
4 5 (35.71%) Business Continuity
4 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (28.57%) Analytics
5 4 (28.57%) Business Analytics
5 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 4 (28.57%) High Availability
5 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 4 (28.57%) Server Management
5 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) CISA
1 9 (64.29%) CISSP
2 8 (57.14%) CISM
3 6 (42.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 3 (21.43%) Degree
5 2 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (14.29%) CRISC
6 1 (7.14%) CCNA
6 1 (7.14%) CCNP
6 1 (7.14%) CEH
6 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (7.14%) GCIA
6 1 (7.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 7 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (42.86%) HIPAA
4 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
5 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
1 5 (35.71%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.14%) CrowdStrike