Cyber Essentials Jobs

Cyber Essentials
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 385 431
Rank change year-on-year -8 +46 +96
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 321 664 754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.68% 0.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.63% 4.90% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 217 578 391
10th Percentile £35,650 £32,500 £37,397
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,188 £43,613
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,000 £80,375 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,850 13,541 19,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.97% 13.77% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,598 9,268 9,195
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £73,750 £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% +5.04%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the UK

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in the UK

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in the UK

Cyber Essentials
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -14 295 £57,500 +4.55% 179
UK excluding London +3 212 £55,000 +4.76% 138
Work from Home +51 105 £60,000 +9.09% 75
London +68 89 £65,000 +4.98% 52
South East +71 72 £55,000 -4.35% 43
North of England -4 66 £55,000 +10.00% 44
North West -12 37 £55,000 +6.80% 16
Midlands -14 35 £47,500 -5.00% 22
Yorkshire +46 27 £53,750 -2.27% 25
West Midlands -19 26 £50,000 -9.09% 19
East of England +43 14 £42,500 - 8
Scotland +119 12 £50,000 +11.11% 7
South West +62 12 £62,500 +13.64% 16
East Midlands +45 9 £35,000 -22.22% 3
Wales +37 2 £55,000 +35.80% 1
North East +30 2 £58,000 +41.46% 5

Cyber Essentials
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 24 (7.48%) SharePoint
2 20 (6.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.62%) IIS
5 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 33 (10.28%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.80%) Acrobat
3 4 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.62%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 110 (34.27%) Microsoft 365
2 104 (32.40%) Azure
3 33 (10.28%) AWS
4 32 (9.97%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.43%) OneDrive
6 10 (3.12%) Power Platform
6 10 (3.12%) SaaS
7 9 (2.80%) Google Workspace
7 9 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (2.49%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (2.49%) GCP
8 8 (2.49%) IaaS
9 6 (1.87%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (1.56%) PaaS
10 5 (1.56%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.25%) Asana
11 4 (1.25%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.25%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 67 (20.87%) Firewall
2 35 (10.90%) Network Security
3 32 (9.97%) VPN
4 17 (5.30%) Intrusion Detection
4 17 (5.30%) VLAN
5 13 (4.05%) DNS
5 13 (4.05%) WAN
6 12 (3.74%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (3.43%) LAN
8 10 (3.12%) DHCP
9 9 (2.80%) Intranet
9 9 (2.80%) Wireless
10 8 (2.49%) SAN
11 6 (1.87%) SD-WAN
11 6 (1.87%) VoIP
12 4 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
12 4 (1.25%) IPsec
12 4 (1.25%) SSL
13 3 (0.93%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (2.49%) Power BI
3 7 (2.18%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.31%) DB2
6 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Burp Suite
1 2 (0.62%) ERwin
1 2 (0.62%) JIRA
1 2 (0.62%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.31%) Git
2 1 (0.31%) Postman
2 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
2 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
General
1 119 (37.07%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.18%) Legal
3 46 (14.33%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (12.46%) Law
5 37 (11.53%) Finance
6 25 (7.79%) Manufacturing
7 17 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (5.30%) Public Sector
7 17 (5.30%) Retail
8 14 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (4.36%) Marketing
9 13 (4.05%) Electronics
10 10 (3.12%) Local Government
11 9 (2.80%) Publishing
11 9 (2.80%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.87%) Aviation
14 4 (1.25%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.31%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 44 (13.71%) Security Manager
2 37 (11.53%) Senior
3 35 (10.90%) Information Manager
3 35 (10.90%) IT Manager
4 28 (8.72%) Analyst
4 28 (8.72%) IT Support
5 27 (8.41%) Information Security Manager
6 26 (8.10%) Security Engineer
7 24 (7.48%) Lead
8 19 (5.92%) Security Analyst
9 16 (4.98%) Architect
10 15 (4.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 14 (4.36%) Governance Manager
11 14 (4.36%) Information Governance Manager
11 14 (4.36%) Senior IT Support
12 12 (3.74%) Infrastructure Manager
12 12 (3.74%) IT Security Manager
13 11 (3.43%) Head of Security
13 11 (3.43%) IT Engineer
13 11 (3.43%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.18%) EDI
2 3 (0.93%) Middleware
2 3 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.62%) RESTful
4 1 (0.31%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.31%) JWT
4 1 (0.31%) OAuth
4 1 (0.31%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.31%) REST
4 1 (0.31%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (18.69%) Management Information System
2 46 (14.33%) Data Protection Act
3 31 (9.66%) Security Posture
4 29 (9.03%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (4.36%) Enterprise Cloud
5 14 (4.36%) Freedom of Information
5 14 (4.36%) Freedom of Information Act
6 13 (4.05%) Cyberattack
7 12 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (3.43%) Replication
9 10 (3.12%) PKI
10 9 (2.80%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.80%) e-Learning
10 9 (2.80%) Onboarding
11 7 (2.18%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.87%) Social Media
13 5 (1.56%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.56%) Robotics
13 5 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 59 (18.38%) Windows
2 29 (9.03%) Windows Server
3 15 (4.67%) Linux
4 8 (2.49%) Windows 10
4 8 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (2.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.87%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.56%) Android
8 3 (0.93%) Unix
9 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.31%) VMS
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (51.09%) Cybersecurity
2 149 (46.42%) Information Security
3 78 (24.30%) ITIL
4 67 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (18.38%) Risk Management
6 55 (17.13%) Data Protection
6 55 (17.13%) Roadmaps
6 55 (17.13%) SIEM
7 51 (15.89%) Incident Response
8 39 (12.15%) Business Continuity
9 36 (11.21%) Project Management
10 35 (10.90%) Disaster Recovery
11 31 (9.66%) Agile
11 31 (9.66%) Mentoring
11 31 (9.66%) Security Management
12 29 (9.03%) Incident Management
13 26 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (8.10%) Data Security
13 26 (8.10%) Information Governance
13 26 (8.10%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.35%) PowerShell
2 10 (3.12%) Python
2 10 (3.12%) SQL
3 6 (1.87%) Bash
4 4 (1.25%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.93%) R
6 2 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.31%) Bicep
7 1 (0.31%) Go
7 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (22.12%) CISSP
2 64 (19.94%) CISM
3 60 (18.69%) Degree
4 23 (7.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (6.54%) CISA
6 20 (6.23%) CRISC
7 18 (5.61%) Security Cleared
8 13 (4.05%) CEH
8 13 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (4.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 13 (4.05%) SC Cleared
9 12 (3.74%) PMI Certification
9 12 (3.74%) PMP
10 11 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (3.43%) CREST Certified
11 9 (2.80%) CompTIA Security+
12 8 (2.49%) CCNA
13 7 (2.18%) CCNP
13 7 (2.18%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (2.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (61.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 114 (35.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 94 (29.28%) GDPR
4 70 (21.81%) NIST
5 58 (18.07%) PCI DSS
6 20 (6.23%) NCSC
7 19 (5.92%) GRC
8 11 (3.43%) HIPAA
8 11 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 10 (3.12%) QA
10 9 (2.80%) Def Stans
10 9 (2.80%) PERC
11 7 (2.18%) SOC 2
12 6 (1.87%) COBIT
12 6 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (1.25%) Data Quality
13 4 (1.25%) SLA
14 2 (0.62%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.62%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 44 (13.71%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.92%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.93%) vSphere
5 2 (0.62%) Docker
6 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (9.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (3.43%) Nessus
3 9 (2.80%) Terraform
4 8 (2.49%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.87%) QRadar
6 5 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.56%) ArcSight ESM
7 4 (1.25%) Dell DRAC
7 4 (1.25%) Kubernetes
8 3 (0.93%) Ansible
8 3 (0.93%) SCCM
9 1 (0.31%) Autotask
9 1 (0.31%) Iperf
9 1 (0.31%) Nmap
9 1 (0.31%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 125 (38.94%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.41%) VMware
3 25 (7.79%) Cisco
4 18 (5.61%) Google
5 13 (4.05%) Splunk
6 12 (3.74%) SAP
7 11 (3.43%) Fortinet
8 10 (3.12%) OneTrust
8 10 (3.12%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.80%) Adobe
9 9 (2.80%) Salesforce
9 9 (2.80%) Veeam
10 7 (2.18%) Meraki
10 7 (2.18%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.87%) Sage
12 5 (1.56%) ArcSight
12 5 (1.56%) LogLogic
12 5 (1.56%) McAfee
12 5 (1.56%) Qualys
12 5 (1.56%) Tenable