Cyber Essentials Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Cyber Essentials
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 54 87
Rank change year-on-year -56 +33 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 13 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.52% 0.37% 0.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.49% 3.13% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile £27,750 - -
25th Percentile £29,438 £36,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £37,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -31.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £57,500 £38,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £60,750
% change year-on-year +25.00% -34.16% +13.02%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 137 64 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 5.51% 11.99% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68 50 46
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,571 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £42,500 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.71% +2.41% -30.32%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £64,375
90th Percentile £80,000 - £70,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Cyber Essentials.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in Gloucestershire

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Gloucester - 5 £30,000 - 4
Stroud - 5 £55,000 -
Cheltenham - 3 £40,000 - 3
Cyber Essentials
South West

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Entra ID
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) LAN
2 4 (30.77%) WAN
3 2 (15.38%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (15.38%) Wireless
General
1 3 (23.08%) Law
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) IT Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) IT Security Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) IT Support
2 5 (38.46%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Security Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Head of IT
3 2 (15.38%) Head of IT Services
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Graduate
4 1 (7.69%) Graduate IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
1 2 (15.38%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Mac OS
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (23.08%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (15.38%) AI
4 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Proactive Management
4 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
4 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
4 2 (15.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (76.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (61.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (23.08%) NCSC
4 2 (15.38%) GDPR
4 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
1 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Apple
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
2 2 (15.38%) Meraki
2 2 (15.38%) Veeam
2 2 (15.38%) VMware