Cyber Essentials Job Trends in Hereford

Cyber Essentials
Herefordshire > Hereford

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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 11 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Hereford 12.09% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 91.67% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile £65,500 - -
Herefordshire median annual salary £57,500 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hereford

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 Hereford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 12 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hereford 13.19% 19.23% 44.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 11
10th Percentile £50,625 - -
25th Percentile £51,250 £25,176 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £26,201 £21,426
Median % change year-on-year +119.46% +22.29% -57.15%
75th Percentile £62,500 £27,227 -
90th Percentile £64,625 - £22,500
Herefordshire median annual salary £55,000 £26,101 £21,426
% change year-on-year +110.72% +21.82% -45.76%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Hereford

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Hereford

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Hereford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing Cyber Essentials.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in Hereford

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

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in Hereford

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hereford 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 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (54.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) DHCP
1 6 (54.55%) DNS
1 6 (54.55%) LAN
1 6 (54.55%) VPN
1 6 (54.55%) WAN
1 6 (54.55%) Wi-Fi
General
1 10 (90.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) IT Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) IT Manager
3 4 (36.36%) Information Security Manager
3 4 (36.36%) IT Security Manager
3 4 (36.36%) Security Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Information Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Driving Licence
2 5 (45.45%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (45.45%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Security
1 6 (54.55%) Data Migration
1 6 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (54.55%) ITIL
1 6 (54.55%) Migration
1 6 (54.55%) Performance Optimisation
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (54.55%) Service Delivery
2 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Document Management
2 5 (45.45%) Information Security
2 5 (45.45%) Information Security Management
2 5 (45.45%) Risk Assessment
2 5 (45.45%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) BPSS Clearance
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) CISM
2 5 (45.45%) CISSP
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 11 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (45.45%) NIST
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) Cisco
2 6 (54.55%) Meraki