Cyber Essentials PLUS Jobs in the North of England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 330 347 388
Rank change year-on-year +17 +41 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 6 41 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.052% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.34% 1.74% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5 33 16
10th Percentile - £32,500 £44,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,742 £50,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +17.39%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £82,500 £81,250
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
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,759 2,360 3,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.30% 13.32% 21.97%
Number of salaries quoted 740 1,636 1,166
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,710 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the North of England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in the North of England.

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the North of England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the North of England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North East +44 3 £75,000 -6.25% 3
Yorkshire +62 2 £63,750 +4.08% 6
North West -30 1 £55,000 +17.65% 8
Cyber Essentials PLUS
England

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Security Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Information Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (16.67%) Learning Management System
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) ISMS
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) CAFM
3 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) Energy Management
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Offensive Security
3 2 (33.33%) Operations Management
3 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISM
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) CISA
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (16.67%) GIAC
3 1 (16.67%) MCSE
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (66.67%) NIST
3 3 (50.00%) GDPR
4 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) arcserve
2 1 (16.67%) Forcepoint
2 1 (16.67%) Sophos