Cyber Essentials Jobs in South Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 59 87
Rank change year-on-year +2 +28 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 3 21 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.45% 1.83% 0.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.82% 11.67% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 4
10th Percentile - £32,500 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,875 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - +57.14% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £45,938
90th Percentile £71,500 - £47,625
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +6.80% -14.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 44 180 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 6.62% 15.72% 22.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36 95 151
10th Percentile £28,750 £24,990 £22,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,375 £32,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% +22.67% -4.63%
75th Percentile £77,500 £57,500 £53,125
90th Percentile £86,250 £60,891 £61,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,750 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.05% -5.00% +5.26%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in South Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in South Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in South Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Barnsley - 2 £55,000 -
Sheffield 0 1 £75,000 +36.36% 2
Cyber Essentials
Yorkshire

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) Unified Communications
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) WLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (66.67%) IT Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (66.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (66.67%) Email Filtering
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
1 2 (66.67%) Web Filtering
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (66.67%) MCSE
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (66.67%) NCSC
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) arcserve
1 2 (66.67%) Forcepoint
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Sophos