Cyber Essentials Jobs in the South East

Cyber Essentials
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Cyber Essentials skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 342 399
Rank change year-on-year +63 +57 -71
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 115 73 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.69% 0.48% 0.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.72% 2.58% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 99 49 83
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,750 £41,500
25th Percentile £42,523 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +13.21%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,250 £75,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

Cyber Essentials is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,435 2,824 3,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.64% 18.66% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,618 1,347 1,908
10th Percentile £24,500 £29,000 £28,455
25th Percentile £31,313 £40,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +9 42 £60,000 +0.84% 6
Thames Valley +49 40 £50,500 -1.94% 13
Oxfordshire +27 19 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Kent +22 18 £55,000 -29.03% 4
Buckinghamshire -5 12 £50,500 -4.72%
Berkshire +32 9 £57,500 +16.91% 11
Surrey -16 6 £73,750 +47.50%
West Sussex +38 4 £67,500 +12.50% 3
East Sussex - 3 £75,000 -
Sussex - 2 £68,750 -
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 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
1 3 (2.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.87%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (47.83%) Azure
2 38 (33.04%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (25.22%) Entra ID
4 14 (12.17%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (8.70%) AWS
6 3 (2.61%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.61%) WhatsApp
7 2 (1.74%) IaaS
8 1 (0.87%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.87%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (35.65%) Firewall
2 25 (21.74%) WAN
3 17 (14.78%) LAN
4 13 (11.30%) NAS
5 12 (10.43%) 4G
5 12 (10.43%) 5G
5 12 (10.43%) MPLS
6 8 (6.96%) DNS
6 8 (6.96%) Network Security
6 8 (6.96%) VPN
7 7 (6.09%) VLAN
7 7 (6.09%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (5.22%) TCP/IP
9 4 (3.48%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (3.48%) iSCSI
9 4 (3.48%) VoIP
10 3 (2.61%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.61%) Power BI
2 1 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (0.87%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (0.87%) Lumira
2 1 (0.87%) SAP BW
General
1 44 (38.26%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.91%) Finance
3 14 (12.17%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.96%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.09%) Law
6 4 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.61%) Publishing
7 3 (2.61%) Retail
8 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Legal
9 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (14.78%) IT Manager
2 13 (11.30%) Administrator
2 13 (11.30%) Systems Administrator
3 11 (9.57%) Service Manager
3 11 (9.57%) Technical Manager
4 9 (7.83%) Architect
4 9 (7.83%) Security Architect
4 9 (7.83%) Senior
4 9 (7.83%) Systems Engineer
4 9 (7.83%) Technical Services Manager
5 8 (6.96%) Analyst
5 8 (6.96%) Information Architect
5 8 (6.96%) Information Security Architect
5 8 (6.96%) Lead
5 8 (6.96%) Security Analyst
6 7 (6.09%) Security Manager
7 6 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Developer
8 5 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support
9 4 (3.48%) IT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.52%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (14.78%) Driving Licence
3 16 (13.91%) Management Information System
4 15 (13.04%) IoT
5 10 (8.70%) Security Posture
6 9 (7.83%) ARM Cortex
6 9 (7.83%) NHS
6 9 (7.83%) PKI
7 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.48%) Replication
9 3 (2.61%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.61%) Clustering
9 3 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.74%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.74%) iPhone
11 1 (0.87%) CCTV
11 1 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.87%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 38 (33.04%) Windows
2 24 (20.87%) Windows Server
3 11 (9.57%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.48%) Android
4 4 (3.48%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (3.48%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (50.43%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (28.70%) Information Security
3 26 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (12.17%) Incident Response
4 14 (12.17%) Project Management
5 13 (11.30%) Data Management
5 13 (11.30%) ITIL
6 12 (10.43%) SIEM
7 11 (9.57%) Decision-Making
7 11 (9.57%) Security Management
8 10 (8.70%) IT Strategy
8 10 (8.70%) Time Management
9 9 (7.83%) Information Governance
9 9 (7.83%) Infrastructure Management
9 9 (7.83%) Mentoring
9 9 (7.83%) Regulatory Compliance
9 9 (7.83%) Security Architecture
9 9 (7.83%) Security Operations
9 9 (7.83%) Technical Architecture
10 8 (6.96%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.09%) SQL
2 3 (2.61%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.87%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 23 (20.00%) Degree
2 22 (19.13%) Security Cleared
3 17 (14.78%) CISSP
4 12 (10.43%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (9.57%) DBS Check
6 10 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (8.70%) CTC Cleared
7 9 (7.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 9 (7.83%) CCSK
7 9 (7.83%) CCSP
8 5 (4.35%) CISM
8 5 (4.35%) MCSE
8 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.48%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.48%) CRISC
10 3 (2.61%) CCNA
10 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.61%) MCSA
10 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (53.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (41.74%) GDPR
3 26 (22.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 16 (13.91%) NIST
5 10 (8.70%) COSHH
6 9 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 9 (7.83%) NCSC
7 8 (6.96%) PCI DSS
8 5 (4.35%) GRC
8 5 (4.35%) ISO 9001
9 3 (2.61%) SOC 2
10 2 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 26 (22.61%) Hyper-V
3 8 (6.96%) Docker
4 5 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.74%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (13.04%) FortiGate
2 11 (9.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (7.83%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.48%) WSUS
5 2 (1.74%) Ansible
5 2 (1.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.78%) Cisco
3 12 (10.43%) Darktrace
3 12 (10.43%) HP
3 12 (10.43%) NEC
4 11 (9.57%) VMware
5 9 (7.83%) Mitel
5 9 (7.83%) Ribbon
6 5 (4.35%) Veeam
7 4 (3.48%) Barracuda Networks
7 4 (3.48%) ESET
8 3 (2.61%) Draytek
8 3 (2.61%) NETGEAR
8 3 (2.61%) Ubiquiti
9 2 (1.74%) Apple
9 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.74%) Facebook
10 1 (0.87%) SAP
10 1 (0.87%) SonicWALL
10 1 (0.87%) Webroot