Cyber Essentials Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Cyber Essentials
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 73 44
Rank change year-on-year +19 -29 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 5 5 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 0.96% 0.59% 1.59%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.85% 7.14% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile - £41,000 £35,350
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £37,500 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - £72,000 -
East Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -26.32% -15.93% +25.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 73 70 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 13.98% 8.28% 12.17%
Number of salaries quoted 30 15 32
10th Percentile £31,100 £27,750 £42,050
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £48,750 £56,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,090 £62,650 £96,500
East Midlands median annual salary £35,500 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.47% -22.73% +15.79%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Cyber Essentials.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Northampton +11 5 £35,000 -26.32%
Cyber Essentials
East Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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