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 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 354 383 411
Rank change year-on-year +29 +28 +46
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 394 335 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.70% 0.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.75% 4.61% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 308 237 338
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £66,063 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £76,625 £75,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

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 8,295 7,271 14,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.71% 15.10% 18.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,000 4,151 7,367
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,290 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,996 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,139 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +0.28% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +2.33%

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 26 July 2024.

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 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
North of England +51 135 £55,000 +12.24% 22
South East +18 85 £55,000 - 18
North West +5 72 £55,000 +15.79% 9
Midlands -2 63 £52,500 -5.83% 14
South West -33 61 £60,000 -4.00% 12
Yorkshire +78 52 £55,000 +5.77% 12
West Midlands +17 45 £55,000 +28.65% 13
East of England +10 30 £55,500 +52.05% 3
East Midlands -30 16 £47,232 -16.40% 1
Scotland -43 12 £55,000 +37.10% 1
North East -1 11 £42,500 +70.00% 1
Wales +25 7 £40,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
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 26 (6.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (5.58%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.03%) Confluence
4 2 (0.51%) WordPress
5 1 (0.25%) IIS
5 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Shopify
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.25%) Maximo
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.25%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 134 (34.01%) Microsoft 365
2 129 (32.74%) Azure
3 52 (13.20%) Entra ID
4 36 (9.14%) AWS
5 32 (8.12%) Cloud Computing
6 19 (4.82%) Power Platform
6 19 (4.82%) SaaS
7 12 (3.05%) IaaS
8 10 (2.54%) OneDrive
9 6 (1.52%) Mimecast
9 6 (1.52%) Nutanix
9 6 (1.52%) PaaS
9 6 (1.52%) WhatsApp
10 3 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.76%) GCP
10 3 (0.76%) GitHub
11 2 (0.51%) Dropbox
11 2 (0.51%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.51%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 72 (18.27%) Firewall
2 38 (9.64%) WAN
3 28 (7.11%) LAN
4 22 (5.58%) DNS
5 21 (5.33%) NAS
6 20 (5.08%) TCP/IP
7 19 (4.82%) VPN
8 18 (4.57%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (4.31%) Network Security
10 14 (3.55%) 4G
10 14 (3.55%) 5G
10 14 (3.55%) MPLS
10 14 (3.55%) VLAN
11 10 (2.54%) DHCP
11 10 (2.54%) VoIP
12 9 (2.28%) Cisco IPT
12 9 (2.28%) Wireless
13 8 (2.03%) Internet
14 7 (1.78%) SAN
15 6 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.54%) Power BI
2 5 (1.27%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 12 (3.05%) JIRA
2 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
2 3 (0.76%) GitLab
General
1 138 (35.03%) Social Skills
2 36 (9.14%) Finance
3 31 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.60%) Telecoms
5 18 (4.57%) Legal
6 17 (4.31%) Law
7 13 (3.30%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.05%) Retail
9 10 (2.54%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.78%) Military
13 6 (1.52%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.27%) Games
15 4 (1.02%) Local Government
15 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.76%) Advertising
16 3 (0.76%) Banking
17 2 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (14.21%) IT Manager
2 51 (12.94%) Security Manager
3 40 (10.15%) Analyst
4 39 (9.90%) Service Manager
5 35 (8.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (8.12%) Security Analyst
7 30 (7.61%) Senior
8 25 (6.35%) Security Officer
8 25 (6.35%) Technical Manager
9 24 (6.09%) Information Manager
9 24 (6.09%) Information Security Manager
10 20 (5.08%) Consultant
10 20 (5.08%) Technical Services Manager
11 19 (4.82%) Lead
12 18 (4.57%) IT Engineer
13 17 (4.31%) Architect
13 17 (4.31%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 16 (4.06%) Information Analyst
14 16 (4.06%) Information Security Analyst
14 16 (4.06%) Information Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.28%) ModSecurity
2 6 (1.52%) SAML
3 3 (0.76%) AWS CDK
4 2 (0.51%) CSS
4 2 (0.51%) HTML
4 2 (0.51%) Laravel
4 2 (0.51%) LDAP
4 2 (0.51%) OAuth
4 2 (0.51%) OpenID
5 1 (0.25%) EDI
5 1 (0.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.44%) Management Information System
2 29 (7.36%) Self-Motivation
3 27 (6.85%) Driving Licence
4 23 (5.84%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (4.57%) IoT
6 16 (4.06%) Security Posture
7 15 (3.81%) Data Centre
8 14 (3.55%) NHS
9 13 (3.30%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.28%) PKI
10 9 (2.28%) Replication
11 6 (1.52%) ARM Cortex
11 6 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.52%) Freedom of Information
11 6 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.27%) Cyberattack
12 5 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.02%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 95 (24.11%) Windows
2 64 (16.24%) Windows Server
3 24 (6.09%) Windows 10
4 17 (4.31%) Android
4 17 (4.31%) Linux
5 14 (3.55%) Apple iOS
6 13 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (2.54%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (1.78%) Debian
8 7 (1.78%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.78%) VMS
9 6 (1.52%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.76%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.25%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (45.69%) Cybersecurity
2 145 (36.80%) Information Security
3 85 (21.57%) ITIL
4 75 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (16.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 61 (15.48%) Data Protection
7 53 (13.45%) Business Continuity
8 42 (10.66%) Risk Management
9 40 (10.15%) Incident Response
10 39 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (9.90%) Customer Service
11 38 (9.64%) Disaster Recovery
12 36 (9.14%) ISMS
13 31 (7.87%) Security Operations
14 29 (7.36%) Project Management
14 29 (7.36%) SIEM
14 29 (7.36%) Vulnerability Management
15 25 (6.35%) Incident Management
15 25 (6.35%) IT Strategy
15 25 (6.35%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (4.82%) Python
2 11 (2.79%) PowerShell
3 8 (2.03%) SQL
4 7 (1.78%) Bash
5 6 (1.52%) Go
6 5 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.76%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.25%) C#
9 1 (0.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 56 (14.21%) CISSP
2 54 (13.71%) Degree
3 46 (11.68%) CISM
4 30 (7.61%) Security Cleared
5 28 (7.11%) CISA
5 28 (7.11%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (6.60%) Azure Certification
7 24 (6.09%) CCNA
8 19 (4.82%) CCNP
9 16 (4.06%) DBS Check
10 14 (3.55%) SC Cleared
11 13 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (3.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 11 (2.79%) CRISC
13 11 (2.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 8 (2.03%) PMI Certification
14 8 (2.03%) PMP
15 7 (1.78%) CTC Cleared
15 7 (1.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (54.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 108 (27.41%) GDPR
3 98 (24.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 55 (13.96%) NIST
5 48 (12.18%) PCI DSS
6 33 (8.38%) GRC
7 27 (6.85%) NCSC
8 23 (5.84%) SLA
9 13 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 12 (3.05%) SOC 2
11 10 (2.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (2.03%) COBIT
13 7 (1.78%) COSHH
13 7 (1.78%) PMO
14 5 (1.27%) ISO 9001
15 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
16 2 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
16 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.51%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 60 (15.23%) Active Directory
2 31 (7.87%) Hyper-V
3 20 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.02%) Docker
6 4 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.51%) pfSense
7 2 (0.51%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.25%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (13.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (3.55%) FortiGate
3 12 (3.05%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (2.79%) Terraform
5 7 (1.78%) SCCM
6 5 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (1.27%) WSUS
7 4 (1.02%) Ansible
7 4 (1.02%) Nessus
8 3 (0.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.51%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.51%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 173 (43.91%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.91%) Cisco
3 40 (10.15%) VMware
4 27 (6.85%) Fortinet
5 21 (5.33%) Veeam
6 16 (4.06%) Darktrace
7 15 (3.81%) Sophos
8 14 (3.55%) HP
8 14 (3.55%) NEC
9 13 (3.30%) Mitel
10 12 (3.05%) Meraki
11 11 (2.79%) Dell
12 9 (2.28%) Aruba
13 8 (2.03%) Citrix
14 7 (1.78%) Barracuda Networks
15 6 (1.52%) Apple
15 6 (1.52%) Atlassian
15 6 (1.52%) ESET
15 6 (1.52%) Ribbon
16 5 (1.27%) Datto