Cyber Essentials PLUS Job Trends in the North East

Cyber Essentials PLUS
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 89 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 4 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.39% 0.10% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.06% 0.66% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100,000 £33,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £36,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +191.67% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £39,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -4.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 79 151 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 7.65% 15.47% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47 51 91
10th Percentile £30,500 £33,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,465 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +16.93% +4.71%
75th Percentile £68,125 £68,113 £60,370
90th Percentile £92,750 £82,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.35%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyber Essentials PLUS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Cyber Essentials PLUS job vacancy trend in the North East

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cyber Essentials PLUS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cyber Essentials PLUS

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Tyne and Wear +10 4 £105,000 +191.67% 2
Cyber Essentials PLUS
England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Head of IT
1 4 (100.00%) Head of IT Security
1 4 (100.00%) Head of Security
2 3 (75.00%) Head of Engineering
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 4 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Management
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 4 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft