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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 276 289
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 +133
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 57 104 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.55% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.54% 4.76% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 39 89 60
10th Percentile - £32,500 £41,700
25th Percentile £39,750 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,438
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%

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 2,242 2,187 1,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 21.75% 13.09% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,241 1,467 1,059
10th Percentile £35,000 £24,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,606 £34,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,680 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.29% -8.64% -4.76%
75th Percentile £73,000 £61,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £81,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.09% +4.55%

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 18 July 2025.

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 18 July 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
Thames Valley +33 26 £41,500 -15.31% 14
Oxfordshire +53 16 £41,500 -12.63% 3
Hampshire +41 11 £75,750 +52.50% 17
Berkshire +19 9 £65,000 +36.84% 9
Middlesex - 7 - -
Surrey +43 5 £60,000 -18.64% 5
East Sussex +26 3 £29,000 -55.38% 1
Kent +10 3 £70,500 +28.18% 2
West Sussex +20 2 £66,250 -1.85%
Buckinghamshire +12 1 - - 3
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 14 (24.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (19.30%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 22 (38.60%) Azure
2 21 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (26.32%) AWS
4 5 (8.77%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (52.63%) Firewall
2 15 (26.32%) SAN
3 14 (24.56%) Network Security
4 12 (21.05%) LAN
4 12 (21.05%) WAN
5 11 (19.30%) VLAN
5 11 (19.30%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (14.04%) TCP/IP
7 4 (7.02%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (7.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 32 (56.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Legal
3 8 (14.04%) Aviation
4 5 (8.77%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Finance
6 2 (3.51%) Electronics
6 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.51%) Law
6 2 (3.51%) Military
6 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Local Government
7 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (24.56%) Support Technician
2 11 (19.30%) 3rd Line Support
2 11 (19.30%) 3rd Line Support Technician
3 9 (15.79%) Lead
4 7 (12.28%) Information Officer
4 7 (12.28%) Risk Officer
5 4 (7.02%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 4 (7.02%) Head of IT
5 4 (7.02%) Head of Security
5 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Support
5 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) IT Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) IT Manager
5 4 (7.02%) IT Support
5 4 (7.02%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior
5 4 (7.02%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.56%) Management Information System
2 11 (19.30%) Replication
3 7 (12.28%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (12.28%) Robotics
3 7 (12.28%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (8.77%) Security Posture
5 4 (7.02%) Operational Technology
6 3 (5.26%) Driving Licence
6 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.51%) CCTV
7 2 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (3.51%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (49.12%) Windows
2 19 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 11 (19.30%) Apple iOS
4 7 (12.28%) Android
5 6 (10.53%) Linux
6 5 (8.77%) Mac OS
7 4 (7.02%) Unix
8 1 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (71.93%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (64.91%) Information Security
3 25 (43.86%) ITIL
4 23 (40.35%) Agile
5 17 (29.82%) Business Continuity
6 15 (26.32%) Knowledge Transfer
7 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (24.56%) Risk Management
8 11 (19.30%) Migration
9 10 (17.54%) Incident Response
9 10 (17.54%) Roadmaps
9 10 (17.54%) SIEM
10 9 (15.79%) Data Protection
10 9 (15.79%) OWASP
10 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (14.04%) GAP Analysis
11 8 (14.04%) Service Delivery
12 7 (12.28%) Computer Science
12 7 (12.28%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) CISSP
2 11 (19.30%) CISM
2 11 (19.30%) Degree
3 9 (15.79%) CRISC
3 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
4 7 (12.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
5 5 (8.77%) CISA
6 4 (7.02%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (3.51%) CCNA
8 2 (3.51%) CCNP
8 2 (3.51%) GCIA
8 2 (3.51%) SANS
9 1 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.75%) CEH
9 1 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.75%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (71.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (59.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 8 (14.04%) GDPR
4 7 (12.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (7.02%) NIST
6 3 (5.26%) PCI DSS
6 3 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (3.51%) COSHH
8 1 (1.75%) NCSC
8 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (35.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 5 (8.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (26.32%) SCCM
2 6 (10.53%) ArcSight ESM
2 6 (10.53%) QRadar
3 4 (7.02%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (50.88%) Microsoft
2 20 (35.09%) VMware
3 11 (19.30%) arcserve
4 6 (10.53%) ArcSight
4 6 (10.53%) LogLogic
4 6 (10.53%) McAfee
4 6 (10.53%) Splunk
5 4 (7.02%) Apple
5 4 (7.02%) Fortinet
5 4 (7.02%) Sophos
6 2 (3.51%) Aderant
7 1 (1.75%) Citrix
7 1 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow