Cyber Essentials PLUS Jobs in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials PLUS
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials PLUS over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 304 306
Rank change year-on-year +46 +2 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 3 14 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.044% 0.12% 0.100%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.25% 0.80% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 8
10th Percentile £40,100 - -
25th Percentile £41,750 £24,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,625 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -4.31% -8.42%
75th Percentile £47,750 £76,250 £70,313
90th Percentile £49,100 £77,125 £84,375
England median annual salary £64,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.36% -12.00% -3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,205 1,758 2,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.48% 14.49% 26.86%
Number of salaries quoted 541 1,269 908
10th Percentile £28,822 £25,750 £27,925
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,600 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials PLUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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
East Midlands +30 2 £40,000 -5.88%
West Midlands +56 1 £50,000 +22.70% 7
Cyber Essentials PLUS
England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Information Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Information Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Information Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (66.67%) GRC
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (33.33%) NIST
3 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Netskope
2 1 (33.33%) VMware