Cyber Essentials Job Trends in Northampton

Cyber Essentials
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 34 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 5 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Northampton 2.42% 1.25% 2.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.36% 29.41% 21.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile - £41,000 £44,100
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £37,500 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - £72,000 -
Northamptonshire median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -26.32% -2.06% -7.62%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 44 17 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 21.26% 4.26% 10.90%
Number of salaries quoted 29 11 17
10th Percentile - - £42,300
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £50,000 £56,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,220 £63,750 £100,000
Northamptonshire median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -26.32% -9.52% +16.67%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Northampton

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Northampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Cyber Essentials.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
1 5 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 5 (100.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 5 (100.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Support Analyst
1 5 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) CRM
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) MCP
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft