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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 84 86
Rank change year-on-year +27 +2 +41
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 3 3 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.48% 0.37% 1.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.29% 4.55% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile £53,250 - £30,750
25th Percentile £54,375 - £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £46,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.63%
75th Percentile £59,375 - £75,000
90th Percentile £59,750 - £76,125
South West median annual salary £42,500 £65,000 £49,898
% change year-on-year -34.62% +30.27% -5.85%

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 70 66 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 11.29% 8.07% 16.12%
Number of salaries quoted 46 34 98
10th Percentile £35,532 £28,000 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,750 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £42,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -23.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,813 £66,875
90th Percentile £80,625 £72,500 £80,250
South West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,148
% change year-on-year - -9.33% +10.30%

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
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 6 December 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
Gloucester - 3 £57,500 - 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:

Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Security Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Governance Manager
2 2 (66.67%) IT Governance Manager
2 2 (66.67%) IT Manager
2 2 (66.67%) IT Security Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Security Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Management
1 1 (33.33%) ISMS
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) GCIH
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
1 1 (33.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC
2 1 (33.33%) NIST 800