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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 604 740 773
Rank change year-on-year +136 +33 -30
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 107 170 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.19% 1.25% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 74 153 129
10th Percentile £39,750 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -15.38% +3.66%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,875 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +11.11%

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 9,019 13,619 18,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.49% 13.33% 18.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,521 9,184 8,594
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.71%

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 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials PLUS in the UK

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Top 16 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 28 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
England +116 101 £64,500 +17.27% 91
UK excluding London +137 54 £55,000 +10.00% 85
London +133 50 £65,000 -3.70% 27
South East +98 36 £55,000 +19.77% 24
Work from Home +85 31 £56,250 -2.17% 54
North of England +7 6 £70,000 +16.67% 23
South West +105 4 £68,750 +37.50% 9
Scotland +123 3 £37,500 -16.67% 16
Midlands +49 3 £45,000 +8.11% 12
North East +48 3 £75,000 -6.25% 8
Yorkshire +57 2 £63,750 +4.08% 4
East Midlands +40 2 £40,000 -5.88% 3
West Midlands +52 1 £50,000 +22.70% 9
East of England +36 1 - - 4
North West -28 1 £55,000 +17.65% 12
Wales - 1 £55,000 - 2

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 9 (8.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.67%) Exchange Server 2013
2 5 (4.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 30 (28.04%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (22.43%) Azure
3 13 (12.15%) Entra ID
4 9 (8.41%) AWS
5 6 (5.61%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.74%) IaaS
7 3 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.80%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.87%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.87%) PaaS
8 2 (1.87%) SaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.93%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.93%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.93%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 33 (30.84%) Firewall
2 14 (13.08%) Network Security
3 11 (10.28%) VPN
4 9 (8.41%) SAN
5 8 (7.48%) WAN
6 7 (6.54%) VLAN
6 7 (6.54%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (5.61%) LAN
7 6 (5.61%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.80%) DNS
9 2 (1.87%) DHCP
9 2 (1.87%) DKIM
9 2 (1.87%) DMARC
9 2 (1.87%) NAS
9 2 (1.87%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.87%) Wireless
10 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.93%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.93%) Power BI
1 1 (0.93%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Burp Suite
1 1 (0.93%) Metasploit
General
1 59 (55.14%) Social Skills
2 35 (32.71%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (20.56%) Legal
4 16 (14.95%) Finance
4 16 (14.95%) Manufacturing
5 15 (14.02%) Electronics
5 15 (14.02%) Marketing
5 15 (14.02%) Public Sector
5 15 (14.02%) Telecoms
6 12 (11.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (9.35%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (6.54%) Law
9 6 (5.61%) Aviation
9 6 (5.61%) Publishing
10 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.93%) Advertising
12 1 (0.93%) Automotive
12 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (18.69%) IT Manager
1 20 (18.69%) IT Support
2 17 (15.89%) Security Manager
3 16 (14.95%) IT Support Manager
3 16 (14.95%) Support Manager
4 15 (14.02%) IT Operations Manager
4 15 (14.02%) Operations Manager
5 14 (13.08%) Information Manager
5 14 (13.08%) Information Security Manager
6 13 (12.15%) Security Engineer
7 11 (10.28%) Analyst
8 10 (9.35%) Security Analyst
9 9 (8.41%) Lead
10 7 (6.54%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Information Analyst
10 7 (6.54%) Information Officer
10 7 (6.54%) Information Security Analyst
10 7 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) IT Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Risk Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.54%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.43%) Management Information System
2 15 (14.02%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (13.08%) Security Posture
4 9 (8.41%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (7.48%) PKI
6 7 (6.54%) Replication
7 6 (5.61%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (5.61%) Freedom of Information
7 6 (5.61%) Freedom of Information Act
7 6 (5.61%) Robotics
8 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.80%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (2.80%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.93%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.93%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.56%) Windows
2 12 (11.21%) Windows Server
3 9 (8.41%) Apple iOS
4 6 (5.61%) Android
5 3 (2.80%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.87%) Linux
6 2 (1.87%) Unix
6 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (71.03%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (56.07%) Information Security
3 39 (36.45%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (28.04%) Incident Response
4 30 (28.04%) ITIL
5 28 (26.17%) Risk Management
6 24 (22.43%) SIEM
7 22 (20.56%) Collaborative Working
7 22 (20.56%) Incident Management
8 19 (17.76%) Data Protection
9 18 (16.82%) Roadmaps
10 17 (15.89%) Agile
10 17 (15.89%) Programme Management
10 17 (15.89%) Project Delivery
10 17 (15.89%) Project Management
10 17 (15.89%) Service Delivery
11 16 (14.95%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (14.95%) Cloud Security
11 16 (14.95%) Root Cause Analysis
12 15 (14.02%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.41%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.80%) Python
3 2 (1.87%) Bash
3 2 (1.87%) SQL
4 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 42 (39.25%) CISSP
2 23 (21.50%) CISM
3 16 (14.95%) Degree
4 15 (14.02%) PMI Certification
4 15 (14.02%) PMP
5 13 (12.15%) CISA
6 10 (9.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 9 (8.41%) CRISC
8 7 (6.54%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
9 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
10 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.80%) CCNA
11 3 (2.80%) CEH
11 3 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (2.80%) GIAC
11 3 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.87%) CCNP
12 2 (1.87%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 62 (57.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (37.38%) GDPR
4 24 (22.43%) NIST
5 16 (14.95%) PCI DSS
6 15 (14.02%) QA
7 11 (10.28%) GRC
8 9 (8.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 8 (7.48%) HIPAA
10 5 (4.67%) SOC 2
11 3 (2.80%) NCSC
12 2 (1.87%) COBIT
12 2 (1.87%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 16 (14.95%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.35%) Hyper-V
2 10 (9.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (15.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.54%) SCCM
3 6 (5.61%) ArcSight ESM
3 6 (5.61%) QRadar
4 5 (4.67%) Nessus
5 4 (3.74%) Terraform
6 2 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.87%) Ansible
7 1 (0.93%) Nmap
7 1 (0.93%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (32.71%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.02%) SAP
3 11 (10.28%) VMware
4 8 (7.48%) Splunk
5 6 (5.61%) arcserve
5 6 (5.61%) ArcSight
5 6 (5.61%) LogLogic
5 6 (5.61%) McAfee
5 6 (5.61%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.74%) Cisco
7 3 (2.80%) Sophos
8 2 (1.87%) Apple
8 2 (1.87%) Dell
8 2 (1.87%) EMC
8 2 (1.87%) FireEye
8 2 (1.87%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.87%) iManage
8 2 (1.87%) Intapp
8 2 (1.87%) Meraki
8 2 (1.87%) SonicWALL