Cyber Essentials Job Trends in Portsmouth

Cyber Essentials
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 48 33
Rank change year-on-year -1 -15 -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 2 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 0.54% 1.12% 1.87%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.76% 7.89% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £37,300 - -
25th Percentile £38,875 £28,745 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £29,175 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +47.39% -33.32% -
75th Percentile £47,375 £29,604 £45,000
90th Percentile £49,100 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £48,500 £35,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +38.57% -41.67% -11.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 42 76 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 11.35% 14.13% 14.49%
Number of salaries quoted 33 68 28
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,600 £27,550
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £46,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.20% -2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,813 £62,313
90th Percentile £73,800 £77,125 £67,000
Hampshire median annual salary £54,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in Portsmouth

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Cyber Essentials.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft