Cyber Essentials PLUS Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Cyber Essentials PLUS
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.055% - 0.088%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.65% - 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - -
75th Percentile £33,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £35,000 £76,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -53.95% +90.00% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 155 90 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 8.55% 13.20% 10.35%
Number of salaries quoted 87 55 88
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £32,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,725 £50,000 £41,686
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% +19.95% +41.31%
75th Percentile £78,250 £63,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £83,738 £79,125
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -21.74%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Cyber Essentials PLUS job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cyber Essentials PLUS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cyber Essentials PLUS

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 1 £32,500 - 4
Cyber Essentials PLUS
East of England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Audit Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Auditing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft