Cyber Essentials Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Cyber Essentials
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 77 68
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +10
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 4 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.56% 0.42% 0.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.40% 4.13% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £63,250 £27,650 -
25th Percentile £64,375 £29,000 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £32,500 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year +107.69% -1.52% -27.65%
75th Percentile £68,750 £35,500 £37,250
90th Percentile - £36,550 -
East of England median annual salary £62,500 £40,000 £37,625
% change year-on-year +56.25% +6.31% -46.25%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 91 121 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 12.82% 10.19% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 55 88 41
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,563 £25,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £39,115 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.83% +18.53% -34.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £83,738 £79,125 £70,000
East of England median annual salary £45,783 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.74% -25.00% +20.00%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in Cambridgeshire

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cyber Essentials.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
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 within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +5 3 £67,500 +136.84% 5
Cyber Essentials
East of England

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Information Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Compliance Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Due Diligence
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) ISMS
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Internal Audit
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CEH
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft