Cyber Essentials Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 362 384
Rank change year-on-year -42 +22 -40
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 175 501 450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.67% 0.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.68% 5.15% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 114 423 238
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,945 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% -3.74% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,875 £71,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,527 9,734 11,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.57% 13.05% 20.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,072 6,357 4,480
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,169 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £32,500 £38,129
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.90%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £79,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
South East +26 63 £55,000 - 124
North of England -45 58 £55,043 +2.40% 100
North West -48 30 £55,043 +0.08% 46
Yorkshire +33 24 £55,000 - 39
Midlands +8 21 £49,600 +7.87% 75
East of England +28 13 £42,292 -19.44% 62
Scotland +111 12 £40,000 -11.11% 31
West Midlands -15 12 £57,500 +24.32% 42
East Midlands +41 9 £35,000 -23.88% 29
South West +52 6 £62,500 +13.64% 54
North East +28 4 £80,000 +90.48% 16
Wales +44 2 £55,000 +35.80% 20
Cyber Essentials
UK

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (10.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (9.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.86%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (1.71%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (10.86%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.00%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.14%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 83 (47.43%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (38.29%) Azure
3 21 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 15 (8.57%) AWS
5 10 (5.71%) OneDrive
6 7 (4.00%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.71%) IaaS
8 3 (1.71%) SaaS
9 2 (1.14%) PaaS
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.57%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.57%) GCP
10 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.57%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (23.43%) Firewall
2 23 (13.14%) Network Security
3 19 (10.86%) VPN
4 17 (9.71%) VLAN
5 11 (6.29%) LAN
5 11 (6.29%) WAN
6 10 (5.71%) DNS
6 10 (5.71%) SAN
7 9 (5.14%) TCP/IP
8 8 (4.57%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (4.00%) DHCP
9 7 (4.00%) Intranet
10 6 (3.43%) Wireless
11 5 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (2.86%) VoIP
12 4 (2.29%) IPsec
12 4 (2.29%) SSL
13 2 (1.14%) DMZ
13 2 (1.14%) Unified Communications
14 1 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.57%) DB2
2 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.57%) Power BI
2 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Burp Suite
1 1 (0.57%) ERwin
1 1 (0.57%) JIRA
1 1 (0.57%) Metasploit
General
1 57 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.14%) Legal
3 30 (17.14%) Law
4 14 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 9 (5.14%) Retail
6 8 (4.57%) Finance
6 8 (4.57%) Local Government
7 7 (4.00%) Aviation
7 7 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.43%) Publishing
9 3 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Marketing
10 2 (1.14%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.57%) Advertising
11 1 (0.57%) Automotive
11 1 (0.57%) Electronics
11 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (14.86%) Senior
2 22 (12.57%) Lead
3 18 (10.29%) IT Support
3 18 (10.29%) Security Manager
4 14 (8.00%) Security Engineer
4 14 (8.00%) Senior IT Support
5 13 (7.43%) Support Technician
6 12 (6.86%) Information Manager
6 12 (6.86%) Infrastructure Manager
7 11 (6.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 11 (6.29%) Information Security Manager
7 11 (6.29%) IT Manager
8 10 (5.71%) Analyst
8 10 (5.71%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) 3rd Line Support
9 8 (4.57%) Architect
9 8 (4.57%) Information Officer
9 8 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
10 7 (4.00%) Cloud Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (0.57%) Middleware
1 1 (0.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.86%) Data Protection Act
2 26 (14.86%) Management Information System
3 19 (10.86%) Security Posture
4 15 (8.57%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (8.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (5.71%) Replication
7 7 (4.00%) Cyberattack
7 7 (4.00%) e-Learning
7 7 (4.00%) Freedom of Information
7 7 (4.00%) Freedom of Information Act
7 7 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.43%) Robotics
9 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.86%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.14%) FMCG
10 2 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 50 (28.57%) Windows
2 26 (14.86%) Windows Server
3 13 (7.43%) Linux
4 8 (4.57%) Apple iOS
4 8 (4.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (3.43%) Android
6 5 (2.86%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.71%) Unix
9 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (52.57%) Cybersecurity
2 77 (44.00%) Information Security
3 54 (30.86%) ITIL
4 35 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 35 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 32 (18.29%) Incident Response
5 32 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 23 (13.14%) Business Continuity
8 21 (12.00%) Mentoring
9 20 (11.43%) Agile
10 19 (10.86%) Coaching
10 19 (10.86%) Customer Service
11 18 (10.29%) Project Management
12 17 (9.71%) SIEM
13 16 (9.14%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (9.14%) Incident Management
14 14 (8.00%) Cloud Security
14 14 (8.00%) GAP Analysis
14 14 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.14%) PowerShell
2 5 (2.86%) SQL
3 3 (1.71%) Python
4 2 (1.14%) Bash
4 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 37 (21.14%) CISSP
2 35 (20.00%) CISM
3 34 (19.43%) Degree
4 18 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (8.00%) CISA
6 12 (6.86%) CEH
7 11 (6.29%) CRISC
8 10 (5.71%) Security Cleared
9 8 (4.57%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (4.57%) SC Cleared
10 7 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (4.00%) GIAC
10 7 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (3.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 5 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (2.29%) A+ Certification
13 4 (2.29%) CREST Certified
13 4 (2.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (1.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (59.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 54 (30.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 39 (22.29%) GDPR
4 30 (17.14%) NIST
5 23 (13.14%) PCI DSS
6 16 (9.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 9 (5.14%) NCSC
8 7 (4.00%) PERC
9 6 (3.43%) HIPAA
10 3 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (1.14%) COBIT
11 2 (1.14%) GRC
11 2 (1.14%) SLA
11 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.57%) COSHH
12 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (16.57%) Active Directory
2 22 (12.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (10.29%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.57%) FortiGate
3 7 (4.00%) Nessus
3 7 (4.00%) QRadar
3 7 (4.00%) SCCM
4 6 (3.43%) ArcSight ESM
5 4 (2.29%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.14%) Terraform
7 1 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.57%) Ansible
7 1 (0.57%) Autotask
7 1 (0.57%) Kibana
7 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.57%) Nmap
7 1 (0.57%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 98 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.71%) VMware
3 17 (9.71%) Cisco
4 9 (5.14%) Splunk
5 8 (4.57%) Google
6 7 (4.00%) Adobe
6 7 (4.00%) Fortinet
6 7 (4.00%) Meraki
6 7 (4.00%) OneTrust
7 6 (3.43%) arcserve
7 6 (3.43%) ArcSight
7 6 (3.43%) LogLogic
7 6 (3.43%) McAfee
7 6 (3.43%) Sage
8 5 (2.86%) Qualys
8 5 (2.86%) Veeam
9 4 (2.29%) Tenable
10 3 (1.71%) Sophos
11 2 (1.14%) IBM
11 2 (1.14%) Palo Alto