Cyber Essentials Jobs in the East of England

Cyber Essentials
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 193 220
Rank change year-on-year +29 +27 -107
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 13 30 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.38% 0.49% 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.49% 4.54% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8 28 16
10th Percentile £41,271 £36,750 £29,875
25th Percentile £41,280 £37,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,292 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £49,375 £58,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £73,500 £75,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 373 661 1,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 11.00% 10.80% 22.51%
Number of salaries quoted 189 464 258
10th Percentile £28,700 £24,807 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £29,375 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -21.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £67,188
90th Percentile £77,700 £76,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the East of England

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the East of England.

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in the East of England

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in the East of England

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Hertfordshire +20 5 £42,085 -26.81% 7
Bedfordshire -5 4 - -
Essex - 3 £60,000 - 3
Suffolk -20 1 - - 1
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
3 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (30.77%) Law
1 4 (30.77%) Legal
1 4 (30.77%) Local Government
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
1 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Manager
1 4 (30.77%) Security Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
1 4 (30.77%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Technical Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Technical Support
2 1 (7.69%) Head of Information
2 1 (7.69%) Head of Information Security
2 1 (7.69%) Head of Security
2 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
2 1 (7.69%) IT Support
2 1 (7.69%) IT Support Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Lead
2 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Support Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (30.77%) Budget Management
4 4 (30.77%) Cost Reduction
4 4 (30.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
4 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
4 4 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (15.38%) Information Security
5 2 (15.38%) Service Desk Management
6 1 (7.69%) Business Continuity
6 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
6 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (7.69%) High Availability
6 1 (7.69%) Information Governance
6 1 (7.69%) ISMS
6 1 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (7.69%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) CEH
2 4 (30.77%) CISM
2 4 (30.77%) CISSP
2 4 (30.77%) CREST Certified
2 4 (30.77%) GIAC
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (30.77%) NCSC
2 4 (30.77%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) FortiGate
1 4 (30.77%) Nessus
2 1 (7.69%) Autotask
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Qualys
2 4 (30.77%) Tenable
3 1 (7.69%) WatchGuard