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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 360 382
Rank change year-on-year -45 +22 -35
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 180 497 447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.69% 0.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.77% 5.15% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 114 424 232
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,476 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,723 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -4.14% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,125 £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 6,488 9,647 12,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.67% 13.45% 20.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,043 6,322 4,546
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.04%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
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 22 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 22 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 +37 64 £55,000 - 50
North of England -41 59 £55,043 +0.08% 48
North West -57 31 £55,043 +0.08% 23
Yorkshire +40 24 £55,000 - 17
Midlands -19 23 £49,600 +10.22% 21
West Midlands -1 14 £57,500 +27.78% 19
East of England +22 13 £42,292 -19.44% 8
Scotland +119 12 £40,000 -11.11% 14
East Midlands +24 9 £35,000 -23.88% 2
South West +47 7 £67,500 +22.73% 19
North East +25 4 £80,000 +90.48% 10
Wales +41 2 £55,000 +35.80% 12
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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (9.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.22%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (1.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (11.67%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.00%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.11%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 84 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (37.22%) Azure
3 20 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 16 (8.89%) AWS
5 10 (5.56%) OneDrive
6 9 (5.00%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.67%) IaaS
8 3 (1.67%) SaaS
9 2 (1.11%) PaaS
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.56%) GCP
10 1 (0.56%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (22.22%) Firewall
2 24 (13.33%) Network Security
3 20 (11.11%) VPN
4 16 (8.89%) VLAN
5 11 (6.11%) DNS
5 11 (6.11%) LAN
5 11 (6.11%) WAN
6 9 (5.00%) Intranet
6 9 (5.00%) TCP/IP
7 8 (4.44%) DHCP
7 8 (4.44%) SAN
7 8 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (3.33%) Wireless
9 5 (2.78%) VoIP
10 4 (2.22%) IPsec
10 4 (2.22%) SSL
11 2 (1.11%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (1.11%) DMZ
11 2 (1.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.56%) DB2
2 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.56%) Power BI
2 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.11%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.56%) ERwin
2 1 (0.56%) Metasploit
General
1 58 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.22%) Legal
3 32 (17.78%) Law
4 16 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 12 (6.67%) Retail
7 8 (4.44%) Finance
7 8 (4.44%) Local Government
8 7 (3.89%) Aviation
9 6 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.33%) Publishing
10 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.11%) Marketing
11 2 (1.11%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Automotive
12 1 (0.56%) Electronics
12 1 (0.56%) Military
12 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (14.44%) Senior
2 22 (12.22%) Lead
3 18 (10.00%) Security Manager
4 16 (8.89%) IT Support
5 15 (8.33%) Security Engineer
6 14 (7.78%) Senior IT Support
7 12 (6.67%) Information Manager
7 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
8 11 (6.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 11 (6.11%) Information Security Manager
8 11 (6.11%) IT Manager
8 11 (6.11%) Support Technician
9 10 (5.56%) Analyst
10 9 (5.00%) Compliance Advisor
10 9 (5.00%) Security Advisor
10 9 (5.00%) Support Engineer
11 8 (4.44%) Architect
11 8 (4.44%) Information Officer
12 7 (3.89%) 3rd Line Support
12 7 (3.89%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.56%) AWS CDK
1 1 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (0.56%) Middleware
1 1 (0.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.44%) Data Protection Act
2 27 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 19 (10.56%) Security Posture
4 17 (9.44%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (7.78%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (5.00%) e-Learning
6 9 (5.00%) Replication
7 8 (4.44%) Cyberattack
8 7 (3.89%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (3.89%) Freedom of Information Act
8 7 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (3.33%) Onboarding
9 6 (3.33%) Robotics
10 5 (2.78%) Operational Technology
11 4 (2.22%) Data Centre
12 2 (1.11%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.11%) FMCG
12 2 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
13 1 (0.56%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 49 (27.22%) Windows
2 25 (13.89%) Windows Server
3 13 (7.22%) Linux
4 8 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.89%) Apple iOS
6 6 (3.33%) Android
7 5 (2.78%) Windows 10
8 4 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.67%) Unix
10 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (51.67%) Cybersecurity
2 79 (43.89%) Information Security
3 53 (29.44%) ITIL
4 37 (20.56%) Data Protection
4 37 (20.56%) Roadmaps
5 34 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (17.78%) Incident Response
7 26 (14.44%) Risk Management
8 24 (13.33%) Business Continuity
9 22 (12.22%) Mentoring
10 19 (10.56%) Agile
10 19 (10.56%) Coaching
10 19 (10.56%) Customer Service
10 19 (10.56%) Project Management
11 18 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (9.44%) SIEM
13 16 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (8.89%) Incident Management
14 14 (7.78%) Data Security
14 14 (7.78%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (2.78%) Python
2 5 (2.78%) SQL
3 3 (1.67%) Bash
4 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.56%) Go
5 1 (0.56%) Perl
5 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (20.56%) CISSP
2 36 (20.00%) CISM
3 35 (19.44%) Degree
4 18 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (7.78%) CISA
6 12 (6.67%) CEH
7 11 (6.11%) CRISC
7 11 (6.11%) Security Cleared
8 8 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (4.44%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (4.44%) SC Cleared
9 7 (3.89%) GIAC
9 7 (3.89%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 5 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (2.22%) A+ Certification
12 4 (2.22%) CREST Certified
12 4 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (61.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 54 (30.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 44 (24.44%) GDPR
4 31 (17.22%) NIST
5 28 (15.56%) PCI DSS
6 16 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 9 (5.00%) NCSC
7 9 (5.00%) PERC
8 6 (3.33%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.67%) SLA
10 2 (1.11%) COBIT
10 2 (1.11%) GRC
10 2 (1.11%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.56%) COSHH
11 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (16.11%) Active Directory
2 20 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (9.44%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.56%) Docker
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (12.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.44%) FortiGate
3 7 (3.89%) Nessus
3 7 (3.89%) QRadar
4 6 (3.33%) ArcSight ESM
5 5 (2.78%) SCCM
6 4 (2.22%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (1.67%) Terraform
8 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.56%) Ansible
8 1 (0.56%) Autotask
8 1 (0.56%) Kibana
8 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.56%) Nmap
8 1 (0.56%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 98 (54.44%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.22%) VMware
3 18 (10.00%) Cisco
4 10 (5.56%) Google
4 10 (5.56%) Splunk
5 9 (5.00%) Adobe
5 9 (5.00%) OneTrust
6 8 (4.44%) Fortinet
7 7 (3.89%) Meraki
8 6 (3.33%) ArcSight
8 6 (3.33%) LogLogic
8 6 (3.33%) McAfee
8 6 (3.33%) Sage
8 6 (3.33%) Veeam
9 5 (2.78%) arcserve
9 5 (2.78%) Qualys
10 4 (2.22%) Tenable
11 3 (1.67%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.11%) Aderant
12 2 (1.11%) SolarWinds