Cyber Essentials Jobs in Northern Ireland

Cyber Essentials
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 78 -
Rank change year-on-year +43 - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.39% 0.13% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.56% 1.06% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 39 94 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 15.29% 12.21% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10 29 42
10th Percentile £60,125 £27,500 £32,625
25th Percentile £66,507 £32,996 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,151 £54,408 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.51% +8.82% +22.70%
75th Percentile £122,813 £68,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £94,500 £76,925
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
County Antrim +37 1 - - 3
Cyber Essentials
UK

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Security Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Security Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CHECK Team Leader
1 1 (100.00%) CHECK Team Member
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus