Cyber Essentials PLUS Job Trends in Herefordshire

Cyber Essentials PLUS
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 7 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Herefordshire 5.00% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 70.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile £69,000 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £56,814
% change year-on-year -4.17% +5.61% -1.19%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Herefordshire

Cyber Essentials PLUS 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 Herefordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10 11 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Herefordshire 7.14% 16.42% 41.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 16
10th Percentile £40,000 - -
25th Percentile £52,188 £25,176 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £26,000 £21,426
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% +21.35% -43.98%
75th Percentile £65,938 £27,227 £35,313
90th Percentile £73,250 - £48,750
West Midlands median annual salary £51,250 £52,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% +11.22%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Salary Histogram in Herefordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials PLUS in Herefordshire

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Hereford - 7 £62,500 - 3
Cyber Essentials PLUS
West Midlands

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
1 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (85.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) IT Manager
2 4 (57.14%) Information Security Manager
2 4 (57.14%) IT Security Manager
2 4 (57.14%) Security Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Information Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (28.57%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (71.43%) Document Management
1 5 (71.43%) Information Security
1 5 (71.43%) Information Security Management
1 5 (71.43%) Risk Assessment
1 5 (71.43%) Security Management
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CISM
1 5 (71.43%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (71.43%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Meraki