Cyber Essentials Job Trends in Wiltshire

Cyber Essentials
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 77 54
Rank change year-on-year +44 -23 +34
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 34 10 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 6.37% 0.96% 3.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 36.56% 6.62% 18.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 18
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile - - £45,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -23.08%
75th Percentile - - £67,500
90th Percentile - - £72,500
South West median annual salary £41,250 £64,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -36.05% +29.00% -4.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 93 151 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 17.42% 14.44% 16.56%
Number of salaries quoted 46 88 89
10th Percentile £31,000 - £32,250
25th Percentile £37,644 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,313 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,638 £97,250 £73,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +15.00%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyber Essentials relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Cyber Essentials.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
Swindon +13 11 - -
Trowbridge - 11 - -
Chippenham - 11 - - 1
Salisbury +17 1 £55,000 - 1
Cyber Essentials
South West

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 33 (97.06%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (97.06%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 34 (100.00%) DHCP
1 34 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) NAS
2 1 (2.94%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (97.06%) Amazon RDS
General
1 34 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (97.06%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (97.06%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 33 (97.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (100.00%) Windows
1 34 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 34 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 33 (97.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Migration
2 33 (97.06%) Customer Experience
2 33 (97.06%) Customer Service
2 33 (97.06%) Email Filtering
2 33 (97.06%) Kalman Filter
2 33 (97.06%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (97.06%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 33 (97.06%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 33 (97.06%) Web Filtering
3 1 (2.94%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (2.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (2.94%) ITIL
3 1 (2.94%) ITSM
3 1 (2.94%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (97.06%) SC Cleared
1 33 (97.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (97.06%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 34 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 33 (97.06%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) SCCM
1 1 (2.94%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 33 (97.06%) Brocade
2 33 (97.06%) Microsoft
2 33 (97.06%) Nimble Storage
2 33 (97.06%) Splunk
2 33 (97.06%) Tanium
2 33 (97.06%) Veeam
2 33 (97.06%) VMware