Cyber Essentials Jobs in England

Cyber Essentials
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cyber Essentials skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 451 505
Rank change year-on-year +91 +54 +74
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 609 630 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.67% 0.65%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.14% 3.43% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 534 355 451
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,563 £43,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,875 £78,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,249
% change year-on-year - -5.58% +9.90%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

Cyber Essentials is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,838 18,376 21,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.94% 19.69% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 8,380 8,398 11,758
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in England

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in England

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in England

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
North of England +18 156 £50,000 +11.11% 30
London +62 125 £61,919 +7.69% 35
South East +71 115 £57,500 +4.55% 30
Midlands +75 114 £47,500 -15.18% 16
West Midlands +92 101 £55,000 -1.79% 7
North West -39 81 £47,750 +6.11% 15
South West -47 67 £55,000 - 11
Yorkshire +106 51 £55,000 -8.33% 12
East of England +32 29 £42,500 -26.09% 8
North East +17 24 £41,000 -25.45% 3
East Midlands -11 13 £45,000 -20.35% 9
Cyber Essentials
UK

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 34 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 26 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.31%) WordPress
4 6 (0.99%) nginx
5 4 (0.66%) Confluence
6 3 (0.49%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Drupal
7 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 71 (11.66%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (9.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.66%) Trello
5 1 (0.16%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.33%) Farmplan
1 2 (0.33%) KEYPrime
1 2 (0.33%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.16%) Magento
2 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.16%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 216 (35.47%) Microsoft 365
2 202 (33.17%) Azure
3 82 (13.46%) Entra ID
4 50 (8.21%) AWS
5 33 (5.42%) Cloud Computing
6 26 (4.27%) SaaS
7 25 (4.11%) Power Platform
8 24 (3.94%) IaaS
9 15 (2.46%) Google Workspace
9 15 (2.46%) PaaS
10 9 (1.48%) GCP
10 9 (1.48%) WhatsApp
11 6 (0.99%) npm
11 6 (0.99%) Serverless
11 6 (0.99%) Yarn
12 5 (0.82%) Nutanix
12 5 (0.82%) OneDrive
13 4 (0.66%) Mimecast
13 4 (0.66%) Power Automate
13 4 (0.66%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 147 (24.14%) Firewall
2 47 (7.72%) DNS
3 42 (6.90%) WAN
4 41 (6.73%) LAN
5 32 (5.25%) NAS
6 27 (4.43%) Wi-Fi
7 26 (4.27%) Wireless
8 24 (3.94%) DHCP
9 19 (3.12%) TCP/IP
10 18 (2.96%) MPLS
10 18 (2.96%) Network Security
11 16 (2.63%) Intranet
11 16 (2.63%) VLAN
11 16 (2.63%) VPN
12 13 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
12 13 (2.13%) VoIP
13 12 (1.97%) 4G
13 12 (1.97%) 5G
13 12 (1.97%) SD-WAN
14 10 (1.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.11%) Power BI
2 13 (2.13%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.99%) MongoDB
3 6 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.99%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.16%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.16%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.16%) Lumira
6 1 (0.16%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Cypress.io
1 6 (0.99%) JIRA
1 6 (0.99%) Mocha
2 2 (0.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.16%) GitLab
3 1 (0.16%) Vagrant
General
1 241 (39.57%) Social Skills
2 87 (14.29%) Finance
3 61 (10.02%) Public Sector
4 56 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (9.20%) Law
5 44 (7.22%) Legal
6 22 (3.61%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.63%) Games
8 14 (2.30%) Retail
9 13 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.48%) Local Government
12 9 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.31%) Automotive
13 8 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.99%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.82%) Military
15 5 (0.82%) Publishing
16 4 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 106 (17.41%) Analyst
2 84 (13.79%) Security Analyst
3 70 (11.49%) IT Manager
4 65 (10.67%) Security Manager
5 43 (7.06%) Consultant
5 43 (7.06%) Lead
6 39 (6.40%) Information Analyst
6 39 (6.40%) Information Security Analyst
7 38 (6.24%) Senior
8 36 (5.91%) Service Manager
9 31 (5.09%) IT Support
10 29 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 28 (4.60%) Information Security Manager
12 26 (4.27%) Information Manager
13 25 (4.11%) Security Consultant
13 25 (4.11%) Technical Manager
14 22 (3.61%) Administrator
15 21 (3.45%) IT Engineer
16 20 (3.28%) Support Engineer
17 18 (2.96%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.64%) OAuth
2 7 (1.15%) ModSecurity
3 6 (0.99%) .NET
3 6 (0.99%) AngularJS
3 6 (0.99%) Express.js
3 6 (0.99%) GraphQL
3 6 (0.99%) gRPC
3 6 (0.99%) Jest
3 6 (0.99%) JWT
3 6 (0.99%) Kafka
3 6 (0.99%) MEAN Stack
3 6 (0.99%) MERN Stack
3 6 (0.99%) Mongoose
3 6 (0.99%) NestJS
3 6 (0.99%) Node.js
3 6 (0.99%) OAuth2
3 6 (0.99%) OpenAPI
3 6 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (0.99%) React
4 5 (0.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (13.96%) Management Information System
2 65 (10.67%) Driving Licence
3 47 (7.72%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (5.25%) Security Posture
5 23 (3.78%) Onboarding
6 22 (3.61%) NHS
7 21 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
7 21 (3.45%) IoT
8 20 (3.28%) Data Centre
9 19 (3.12%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.64%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
12 9 (1.48%) ARM Cortex
12 9 (1.48%) CCTV
12 9 (1.48%) PKI
13 7 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.15%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.15%) Replication
13 7 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 143 (23.48%) Windows
2 92 (15.11%) Windows Server
3 39 (6.40%) Windows 10
4 30 (4.93%) Linux
5 21 (3.45%) Mac OS
6 17 (2.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (2.13%) Android
7 13 (2.13%) Apple iOS
8 9 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (1.31%) VMS
10 7 (1.15%) Debian
10 7 (1.15%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.66%) Unix
12 2 (0.33%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
2 246 (40.39%) Information Security
3 154 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
4 120 (19.70%) ITIL
5 94 (15.44%) Incident Response
6 68 (11.17%) Risk Management
7 67 (11.00%) SIEM
8 66 (10.84%) Data Protection
9 61 (10.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 60 (9.85%) Business Continuity
11 58 (9.52%) Security Operations
12 57 (9.36%) Penetration Testing
13 55 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (8.70%) Security Management
15 51 (8.37%) Service Delivery
16 48 (7.88%) Customer Service
16 48 (7.88%) Vulnerability Management
17 42 (6.90%) Data Security
17 42 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
18 40 (6.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (4.11%) SQL
2 20 (3.28%) Bash
3 17 (2.79%) Python
4 15 (2.46%) PowerShell
5 11 (1.81%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.15%) Java
7 6 (0.99%) Kotlin
7 6 (0.99%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.33%) Bicep
9 1 (0.16%) ABAP
9 1 (0.16%) C#
9 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 91 (14.94%) CISSP
2 89 (14.61%) Security Cleared
3 84 (13.79%) Degree
4 60 (9.85%) CISM
5 48 (7.88%) CISA
6 39 (6.40%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (3.94%) Azure Certification
7 24 (3.94%) SC Cleared
8 23 (3.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 21 (3.45%) DBS Check
9 21 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 20 (3.28%) CCNA
11 19 (3.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 19 (3.12%) CRISC
11 19 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (2.79%) CCNP
13 16 (2.63%) CCSP
13 16 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (2.13%) CCSK
14 13 (2.13%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 347 (56.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 150 (24.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 135 (22.17%) GDPR
4 120 (19.70%) NIST
5 49 (8.05%) ISO 9001
6 45 (7.39%) PCI DSS
7 42 (6.90%) GRC
8 38 (6.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 34 (5.58%) NCSC
10 24 (3.94%) SLA
10 24 (3.94%) SOC 2
11 21 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 14 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (1.64%) COSHH
14 9 (1.48%) COBIT
14 9 (1.48%) QA
15 7 (1.15%) PMO
16 6 (0.99%) Accessibility
16 6 (0.99%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.82%) TickIT
System Software
1 113 (18.56%) Active Directory
2 47 (7.72%) Hyper-V
3 28 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (2.79%) Docker
6 5 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.66%) vSphere
8 2 (0.33%) pfSense
8 2 (0.33%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.16%) LXC
Systems Management
1 56 (9.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (6.24%) EnCase
3 36 (5.91%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (3.78%) FortiGate
5 9 (1.48%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.48%) Terraform
6 7 (1.15%) Grafana
7 6 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.99%) Nessus
7 6 (0.99%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.99%) WSUS
8 5 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.66%) CASB
10 3 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.49%) Ansible
10 3 (0.49%) PaperCut
10 3 (0.49%) SCCM
11 1 (0.16%) Cacti
11 1 (0.16%) Puppet
11 1 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 279 (45.81%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.70%) Cisco
3 52 (8.54%) VMware
4 24 (3.94%) Sophos
5 22 (3.61%) Fortinet
6 21 (3.45%) Apple
7 17 (2.79%) Google
8 16 (2.63%) Darktrace
8 16 (2.63%) HP
8 16 (2.63%) Veeam
9 14 (2.30%) Dell
10 12 (1.97%) NEC
11 10 (1.64%) Meraki
12 9 (1.48%) Citrix
12 9 (1.48%) Mitel
12 9 (1.48%) Ribbon
13 8 (1.31%) Barracuda Networks
14 7 (1.15%) Draytek
14 7 (1.15%) Ubiquiti
15 6 (0.99%) ESET