Cyber Essentials Job Trends in Herefordshire

Cyber Essentials
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Herefordshire 0.99% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £58,250 £58,191 £47,500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +22.51% -26.47%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3 17 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Herefordshire 2.97% 19.54% 45.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 20
10th Percentile £59,500 £25,176 -
25th Percentile £64,375 £26,000 £21,426
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £26,201 £26,963
Median % change year-on-year +186.25% -2.83% -28.10%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £49,688
90th Percentile £77,000 - £52,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%

Cyber Essentials
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 within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 11 November 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 - 1 £57,500 - 2
Cyber Essentials
West Midlands

Cyber Essentials
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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft