Cyber Essentials Jobs in Hertfordshire

Cyber Essentials
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 107 123
Rank change year-on-year +27 +16 -23
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 5 12 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.61% 0.60% 0.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.81% 6.63% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 4
10th Percentile - £37,075 £58,000
25th Percentile £41,280 £40,844 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,085 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% -17.86% -
75th Percentile £42,889 £61,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £44,156 £71,250 -
East of England median annual salary £42,292 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.44% -4.55% -8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 86 181 482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 10.41% 9.05% 26.82%
Number of salaries quoted 69 132 104
10th Percentile £28,750 £24,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -16.67% +31.87%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,750 £77,500 £72,125
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £43,742 £55,500
% change year-on-year +14.31% -21.19% +11.00%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in Hertfordshire

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Hertfordshire.

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in Hertfordshire

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Stevenage +24 4 £42,085 -37.65%
Hitchin - 1 £45,000 - 1
Cyber Essentials
East of England

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Security Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Project Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (80.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CEH
1 4 (80.00%) CISM
1 4 (80.00%) CISSP
1 4 (80.00%) CREST Certified
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) GIAC
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (80.00%) NCSC
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) FortiGate
1 4 (80.00%) Nessus
2 1 (20.00%) Autotask
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Qualys
2 4 (80.00%) Tenable
3 1 (20.00%) WatchGuard