Cyber Essentials Jobs in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 228 274
Rank change year-on-year -3 +46 -9
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 23 99 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.34% 0.81% 0.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.93% 5.61% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 21 91 29
10th Percentile - £28,250 £32,650
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,600 £45,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% -19.64% +24.44%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £68,000 £75,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,190 1,765 2,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.45% 14.51% 26.75%
Number of salaries quoted 527 1,272 909
10th Percentile £28,822 £25,750 £27,950
25th Percentile £31,125 £32,375 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,555 £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
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
West Midlands 0 14 £57,500 +27.78% 35
East Midlands +31 9 £35,000 -23.88% 14
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (21.74%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Entra ID
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (34.78%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) OneDrive
4 3 (13.04%) SaaS
5 2 (8.70%) IaaS
5 2 (8.70%) PaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.35%) AWS
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) VoIP
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) Network Security
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (4.35%) DHCP
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.35%) DB2
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) ERwin
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Legal
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.70%) Marketing
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Advertising
4 1 (4.35%) Automotive
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Health Technology
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Local Government
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Senior
2 5 (21.74%) IT Support
2 5 (21.74%) IT Support Specialist
2 5 (21.74%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 5 (21.74%) Senior IT Support
2 5 (21.74%) Support Specialist
3 4 (17.39%) IT Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Security Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Practitioner
5 2 (8.70%) Information Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Information Security Manager
5 2 (8.70%) IT Security Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Security Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Head of Cybersecurity
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Information Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Security Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (8.70%) FMCG
1 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
1 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Insider Threat
2 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.35%) Unix
4 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Information Security
2 9 (39.13%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
4 6 (26.09%) Task Automation
5 5 (21.74%) Customer Service
5 5 (21.74%) Email Management
5 5 (21.74%) ITSM
5 5 (21.74%) Logistics
5 5 (21.74%) Project Management
6 4 (17.39%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (17.39%) SIEM
7 3 (13.04%) DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) Information Security Management
7 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
7 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.04%) Security Management
7 3 (13.04%) Security Operations
7 3 (13.04%) Zero Trust
8 2 (8.70%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) CISM
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.70%) CASP
3 2 (8.70%) CISSP
3 2 (8.70%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) CIPFA
4 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.35%) ISEB
4 1 (4.35%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.35%) MCP
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certified Master
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (60.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (30.43%) NIST
3 4 (17.39%) GDPR
4 3 (13.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (8.70%) GRC
5 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
6 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (4.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Kibana
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Nessus
2 1 (4.35%) QRadar
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Meraki
2 5 (21.74%) Sage
2 5 (21.74%) Veeam
3 3 (13.04%) VMware
4 2 (8.70%) IBM
4 2 (8.70%) Splunk
5 1 (4.35%) Databricks
5 1 (4.35%) LogRhythm
5 1 (4.35%) Netskope
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce