Cyber Essentials Jobs in the South East

Cyber Essentials
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 287 427
Rank change year-on-year +18 +140 -98
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 85 74 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.64% 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.33% 4.51% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 75 58 78
10th Percentile £32,500 £43,150 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,250
% change year-on-year - -11.65% +13.18%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,965 1,642 3,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.02% 14.17% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 1,009 2,078
10th Percentile £24,500 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the South East

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the South East.

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in the South East

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the South East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in the South East

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Hampshire -25 32 £55,000 - 1
Kent +6 20 £55,000 +35.80% 1
Thames Valley +35 18 £47,500 -7.32% 6
Berkshire +28 10 £47,500 -6.57% 1
West Sussex +24 6 £67,500 +31.71% 1
East Sussex - 5 £65,000 -
Oxfordshire -14 4 £47,500 -22.45% 2
Buckinghamshire - 4 £59,000 - 3
Surrey -45 3 £67,500 +28.57% 5
Sussex - 1 £67,500 -
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (38.82%) Azure
2 23 (27.06%) Entra ID
3 21 (24.71%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (12.94%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (11.76%) AWS
6 3 (3.53%) WhatsApp
7 2 (2.35%) Dropbox
7 2 (2.35%) IaaS
8 1 (1.18%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 34 (40.00%) Firewall
2 23 (27.06%) WAN
3 14 (16.47%) 4G
3 14 (16.47%) 5G
3 14 (16.47%) LAN
3 14 (16.47%) MPLS
4 11 (12.94%) NAS
5 10 (11.76%) TCP/IP
5 10 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (10.59%) VPN
7 6 (7.06%) DNS
8 5 (5.88%) iSCSI
9 4 (4.71%) VLAN
10 2 (2.35%) Network Security
10 2 (2.35%) Wireless
11 1 (1.18%) DHCP
11 1 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (1.18%) SAN
General
1 27 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.65%) Telecoms
3 11 (12.94%) Manufacturing
4 6 (7.06%) Finance
4 6 (7.06%) Retail
5 4 (4.71%) Local Government
6 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.35%) Advertising
7 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Law
8 1 (1.18%) Marketing
8 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (16.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (15.29%) IT Manager
3 11 (12.94%) Senior
3 11 (12.94%) Service Manager
4 9 (10.59%) Infrastructure Support
4 9 (10.59%) Technical Manager
4 9 (10.59%) Technical Services Manager
5 8 (9.41%) IT Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) Security Manager
5 8 (9.41%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Infrastructure Manager
6 6 (7.06%) IT Infrastructure Manager
6 6 (7.06%) IT Security Manager
7 5 (5.88%) Information Security Officer
7 5 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Lead
7 5 (5.88%) Security Officer
7 5 (5.88%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (4.71%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.82%) Driving Licence
2 14 (16.47%) IoT
3 11 (12.94%) Management Information System
4 10 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (10.59%) NHS
5 9 (10.59%) PKI
6 8 (9.41%) Replication
7 6 (7.06%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (1.18%) CCTV
8 1 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 36 (42.35%) Windows
2 23 (27.06%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.76%) Windows 10
4 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (4.71%) Android
5 4 (4.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.59%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (25.88%) Information Security
3 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (18.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (16.47%) Data Management
5 14 (16.47%) ITIL
6 10 (11.76%) Decision-Making
7 9 (10.59%) Information Governance
7 9 (10.59%) Infrastructure Management
8 8 (9.41%) Change Control
9 7 (8.24%) Project Management
10 6 (7.06%) Customer Service
10 6 (7.06%) SIEM
11 5 (5.88%) Risk Management
11 5 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (4.71%) Asset Management
12 4 (4.71%) Computer Science
12 4 (4.71%) Disaster Recovery
12 4 (4.71%) Network Design
12 4 (4.71%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (14.12%) DBS Check
2 11 (12.94%) Degree
2 11 (12.94%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.24%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (8.24%) CISSP
3 7 (8.24%) CTC Cleared
4 6 (7.06%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.71%) CISM
6 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.53%) CRISC
7 2 (2.35%) CCNA
7 2 (2.35%) CCNP
7 2 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.35%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.35%) GCIA
7 2 (2.35%) SANS
8 1 (1.18%) CISA
8 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (42.35%) GDPR
1 36 (42.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (24.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 8 (9.41%) PCI DSS
4 7 (8.24%) COSHH
5 6 (7.06%) GRC
5 6 (7.06%) NIST
6 5 (5.88%) NCSC
6 5 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (4.71%) SOC 2
8 2 (2.35%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (1.18%) COBIT
9 1 (1.18%) ISO 9001
9 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (25.88%) Active Directory
2 17 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (7.06%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.35%) Docker
4 2 (2.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 14 (16.47%) FortiGate
2 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.88%) WSUS
4 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.35%) Ansible
5 2 (2.35%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (42.35%) Microsoft
2 18 (21.18%) Cisco
3 14 (16.47%) Darktrace
3 14 (16.47%) HP
3 14 (16.47%) NEC
3 14 (16.47%) VMware
4 7 (8.24%) Meraki
4 7 (8.24%) Veeam
5 6 (7.06%) Mitel
5 6 (7.06%) Ribbon
6 4 (4.71%) Barracuda Networks
6 4 (4.71%) ESET
6 4 (4.71%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.35%) Apple