Cyber Essentials Job Trends in Somerset

Cyber Essentials
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - 39
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 37 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 6.70% - 1.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 44.05% - 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 - £42,850
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £49,923
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.23%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £52,230
90th Percentile - - £61,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -5.66%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 84 27 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 15.22% 6.09% 15.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11 17 41
10th Percentile - £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,760 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -38.46% +30.00%
75th Percentile £80,800 £58,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £70,000 -
South West median annual salary £50,200 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.38% - +5.00%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Somerset

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Cyber Essentials.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Bath - 36 - - 1
Clevedon - 12 - -
Weston-super-Mare - 12 - -
Bridgwater - 1 £47,500 - 1
Cyber Essentials
South West

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 36 (97.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 36 (97.30%) Azure
1 36 (97.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 36 (97.30%) DHCP
1 36 (97.30%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (97.30%) Amazon RDS
General
1 36 (97.30%) Analytical Skills
1 36 (97.30%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (97.30%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (2.70%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 36 (97.30%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 36 (97.30%) Linux
1 36 (97.30%) Windows
1 36 (97.30%) Windows Server
1 36 (97.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (97.30%) Customer Experience
2 36 (97.30%) Customer Service
2 36 (97.30%) Email Filtering
2 36 (97.30%) Kalman Filter
2 36 (97.30%) Migration
2 36 (97.30%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 36 (97.30%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 36 (97.30%) Web Filtering
3 1 (2.70%) CRM
3 1 (2.70%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (2.70%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (2.70%) ERP
3 1 (2.70%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (97.30%) SC Cleared
1 36 (97.30%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (97.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (97.30%) Active Directory
1 36 (97.30%) Hyper-V
1 36 (97.30%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 36 (97.30%) Brocade
1 36 (97.30%) Microsoft
1 36 (97.30%) Nimble Storage
1 36 (97.30%) SolarWinds
1 36 (97.30%) Splunk
1 36 (97.30%) Tanium
1 36 (97.30%) Veeam
1 36 (97.30%) VMware
2 1 (2.70%) HubSpot
2 1 (2.70%) Sage