Cyber Essentials PLUS Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cyber Essentials PLUS
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 127 115
Rank change year-on-year +4 -12 -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 10 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.40% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.67% 1.27% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile - - £43,356
25th Percentile £32,500 £46,250 £45,391
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £47,500 £48,628
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% -2.32% -
75th Percentile £59,375 £48,750 £56,488
90th Percentile £60,000 - £66,845
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 374 474 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.90% 21.03% 11.84%
Number of salaries quoted 261 118 151
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,125 £35,963
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £53,951 £58,750 £63,125
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.35%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Cyber Essentials PLUS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cyber Essentials PLUS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cyber Essentials PLUS

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the East Midlands

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Northamptonshire - 9 £35,000 - 3
Leicestershire - 1 £37,500 - 1
Cyber Essentials PLUS
England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 9 (90.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DHCP
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
2 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (10.00%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 5 (50.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) IT Manager
2 4 (40.00%) IT Operations Manager
2 4 (40.00%) Operations Manager
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (30.00%) IT Security Manager
3 3 (30.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (30.00%) Network Security Manager
3 3 (30.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (40.00%) Replication
3 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 5 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
2 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (50.00%) CRM
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) Scrum
2 5 (50.00%) Service Management
3 4 (40.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (30.00%) Data Security
4 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) OWASP
6 1 (10.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
1 5 (50.00%) MCP
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CHECK Team Member
2 1 (10.00%) CREST Certified
2 1 (10.00%) GPEN
2 1 (10.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (10.00%) GRC
3 1 (10.00%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Nessus
1 1 (10.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Qualys