Cyber Essentials PLUS Jobs

Cyber Essentials PLUS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials PLUS 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 692 727 872
Rank change year-on-year +35 +145 -13
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 150 160 414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.20% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.26% 1.31% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 124 141 191
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £35,100
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,485 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.62% +4.17% +20.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Cyber Essentials PLUS 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,872 12,180 30,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.14% 15.09% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,420 7,777 14,031
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,897 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,139 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +0.28% +5.26%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials PLUS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the UK

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the UK

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the UK

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS within the UK 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
England +5 120 £65,000 - 30
UK excluding London -25 98 £51,485 -17.62% 26
Work from Home +53 62 £57,500 -17.86% 14
North of England +24 30 £65,000 +20.37% 5
London +48 25 £80,000 +18.52% 8
South West -28 22 £50,000 -24.53% 2
South East +5 21 £47,500 -26.92% 11
North West +5 19 £65,000 +59.51% 2
Midlands -20 14 £60,000 +71.43% 7
West Midlands -5 10 £67,155 +91.87% 6
East of England - 8 £40,000 -
Yorkshire +55 6 £50,000 -9.09% 2
North East - 5 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands -24 4 £41,250 -15.17% 1
Scotland -43 3 £45,000 +12.18% 1

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (39.33%) Azure
2 40 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (16.00%) AWS
4 15 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 12 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (8.00%) SaaS
6 4 (2.67%) IaaS
7 2 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.33%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.33%) PaaS
7 2 (1.33%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.67%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.67%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (18.67%) Firewall
2 16 (10.67%) LAN
3 10 (6.67%) Network Security
4 9 (6.00%) Cisco IPT
4 9 (6.00%) VPN
5 6 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (3.33%) WAN
6 5 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (2.67%) VLAN
8 3 (2.00%) BGP
8 3 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (2.00%) DKIM
8 3 (2.00%) DMARC
8 3 (2.00%) EIGRP
8 3 (2.00%) Internet
8 3 (2.00%) MPLS
8 3 (2.00%) OSPF
8 3 (2.00%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.00%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 45 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.33%) Law
3 17 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (11.33%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.67%) Finance
5 13 (8.67%) Legal
6 12 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.00%) Military
8 4 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.67%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.67%) Retail
9 3 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.33%) Automotive
10 2 (1.33%) Publishing
11 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Local Government
11 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 18 (12.00%) Analyst
2 18 (12.00%) Senior
3 16 (10.67%) Information Manager
3 16 (10.67%) Information Security Manager
4 15 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 15 (10.00%) Lead
4 15 (10.00%) Security Officer
5 14 (9.33%) Security Analyst
6 12 (8.00%) Architect
6 12 (8.00%) Security Architect
7 11 (7.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 11 (7.33%) Senior Architect
7 11 (7.33%) Senior Security Architect
8 10 (6.67%) Information Analyst
8 10 (6.67%) Information Security Analyst
9 9 (6.00%) IT Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Compliance Manager
10 7 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) IT Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.00%) ModSecurity
2 4 (2.67%) OAuth
2 4 (2.67%) SAML
3 2 (1.33%) Laravel
3 2 (1.33%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.67%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 20 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 13 (8.67%) Cyberattack
4 7 (4.67%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.67%) NHS
7 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.00%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.33%) Anti-Spyware
9 2 (1.33%) Cybercrime
9 2 (1.33%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.67%) IoT
10 1 (0.67%) Replication
10 1 (0.67%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.00%) Windows
2 14 (9.33%) Windows Server
3 10 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 5 (3.33%) Android
4 5 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.33%) Linux
5 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (55.33%) Information Security
2 73 (48.67%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (15.33%) Data Protection
4 21 (14.00%) Penetration Testing
5 20 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (13.33%) Risk Management
6 19 (12.67%) ITIL
7 18 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (12.00%) Roadmaps
7 18 (12.00%) SIEM
8 16 (10.67%) Business Continuity
8 16 (10.67%) Coaching
8 16 (10.67%) Incident Response
9 15 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
9 15 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (9.33%) ISMS
10 14 (9.33%) Network Architecture
10 14 (9.33%) Security Management
11 13 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (8.67%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (0.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (36.67%) CISSP
2 47 (31.33%) CISM
3 31 (20.67%) Security Cleared
4 25 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 23 (15.33%) CISA
6 19 (12.67%) Degree
7 13 (8.67%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (8.00%) Azure Certification
9 11 (7.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 11 (7.33%) AWS Certification
9 11 (7.33%) CCSP
9 11 (7.33%) ISACA
10 9 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (5.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 8 (5.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 7 (4.67%) CEH
12 7 (4.67%) CompTIA CySA+
13 6 (4.00%) CRISC
14 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (2.67%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 97 (64.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (17.33%) GDPR
4 24 (16.00%) NIST
5 19 (12.67%) PCI DSS
6 16 (10.67%) NCSC
7 15 (10.00%) GRC
8 13 (8.67%) IASME
9 11 (7.33%) QA
10 10 (6.67%) SOC 2
11 9 (6.00%) ISO 9001
12 2 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (1.33%) ISO 22301
12 2 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.67%) COBIT
13 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.00%) Nessus
3 2 (1.33%) Ansible
3 2 (1.33%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (1.33%) SCCM
3 2 (1.33%) Terraform
4 1 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (24.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.67%) VMware
3 12 (8.00%) Cisco
4 9 (6.00%) Fortinet
5 5 (3.33%) Meraki
5 5 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.67%) Barracuda Networks
6 4 (2.67%) Citrix
6 4 (2.67%) Dell
6 4 (2.67%) ESET
6 4 (2.67%) Qualys
6 4 (2.67%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.00%) Juniper
7 3 (2.00%) Veeam
8 2 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.33%) Mitel
8 2 (1.33%) MobileIron
8 2 (1.33%) Sophos
8 2 (1.33%) Symantec
9 1 (0.67%) Darktrace