Cyber Essentials Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cyber Essentials
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Cyber Essentials skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 359 569
Rank change year-on-year +5 +210 -110
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 256 339 295
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 0.82% 0.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.02% 5.56% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 229 186 235
10th Percentile £37,350 £41,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £44,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £84,375 £81,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +13.21%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

Cyber Essentials is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,251 6,097 10,919
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.63% 14.66% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,229 4,124 6,033
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

Cyber Essentials
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cyber Essentials trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cyber Essentials.

Cyber Essentials salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Cyber Essentials salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.34%) nginx
4 4 (1.56%) Confluence
5 3 (1.17%) WordPress
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) Drupal
Applications
1 9 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.39%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 103 (40.23%) Azure
2 87 (33.98%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (17.58%) Entra ID
4 23 (8.98%) Cloud Computing
5 20 (7.81%) AWS
6 11 (4.30%) Google Workspace
6 11 (4.30%) IaaS
7 10 (3.91%) SaaS
8 8 (3.13%) GCP
8 8 (3.13%) WhatsApp
9 6 (2.34%) npm
9 6 (2.34%) Serverless
9 6 (2.34%) Yarn
10 5 (1.95%) PaaS
10 5 (1.95%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.56%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.56%) Slack
12 3 (1.17%) OCI
13 2 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.78%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 64 (25.00%) Firewall
2 24 (9.38%) DNS
3 21 (8.20%) WAN
4 17 (6.64%) Wireless
5 14 (5.47%) LAN
5 14 (5.47%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (4.30%) Broadband
6 11 (4.30%) NAS
6 11 (4.30%) Network Security
7 10 (3.91%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (3.91%) SD-WAN
8 8 (3.13%) MPLS
9 7 (2.73%) PBX
9 7 (2.73%) VLAN
10 6 (2.34%) AMQP
10 6 (2.34%) Cisco IPT
10 6 (2.34%) Internet
10 6 (2.34%) TCP/IP
11 5 (1.95%) 4G
11 5 (1.95%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.52%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.34%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.34%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.78%) Power BI
5 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.39%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (0.39%) Lumira
5 1 (0.39%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (2.34%) Cypress.io
1 6 (2.34%) Mocha
2 4 (1.56%) JIRA
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
General
1 91 (35.55%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (9.38%) Finance
3 24 (9.38%) Law
4 13 (5.08%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.69%) Legal
6 11 (4.30%) Games
7 9 (3.52%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.34%) Military
9 6 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.95%) Automotive
10 5 (1.95%) Retail
11 4 (1.56%) Publishing
12 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (0.78%) Local Government
14 1 (0.39%) Banking
14 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (17.19%) Analyst
2 39 (15.23%) Security Analyst
3 38 (14.84%) Security Manager
4 24 (9.38%) Senior
5 23 (8.98%) Consultant
5 23 (8.98%) IT Manager
6 18 (7.03%) Service Manager
7 17 (6.64%) Information Analyst
7 17 (6.64%) Information Security Analyst
7 17 (6.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (6.25%) Information Security Manager
9 15 (5.86%) IT Engineer
9 15 (5.86%) IT Support
10 14 (5.47%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 14 (5.47%) Information Manager
11 13 (5.08%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 13 (5.08%) IT Consultant
11 13 (5.08%) Security Officer
11 13 (5.08%) Support Engineer
11 13 (5.08%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.34%) .NET
1 6 (2.34%) AngularJS
1 6 (2.34%) Express.js
1 6 (2.34%) GraphQL
1 6 (2.34%) gRPC
1 6 (2.34%) Jest
1 6 (2.34%) JWT
1 6 (2.34%) Kafka
1 6 (2.34%) MEAN Stack
1 6 (2.34%) MERN Stack
1 6 (2.34%) ModSecurity
1 6 (2.34%) Mongoose
1 6 (2.34%) NestJS
1 6 (2.34%) Node.js
1 6 (2.34%) OAuth
1 6 (2.34%) OAuth2
1 6 (2.34%) OpenAPI
1 6 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
1 6 (2.34%) React
2 2 (0.78%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.55%) Management Information System
2 14 (5.47%) IoT
3 13 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.69%) Driving Licence
5 11 (4.30%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.30%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.73%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.34%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.95%) NHS
10 4 (1.56%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
10 4 (1.56%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.17%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 61 (23.83%) Windows
2 31 (12.11%) Windows Server
3 15 (5.86%) Mac OS
4 10 (3.91%) Apple iOS
4 10 (3.91%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.73%) Android
6 5 (1.95%) Linux
7 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.78%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.78%) Unix
8 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (55.86%) Cybersecurity
2 101 (39.45%) Information Security
3 59 (23.05%) ITIL
4 46 (17.97%) Data Protection
5 45 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (16.80%) SIEM
7 41 (16.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 33 (12.89%) Business Continuity
8 33 (12.89%) Penetration Testing
9 31 (12.11%) Risk Management
10 24 (9.38%) Security Management
11 22 (8.59%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 21 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (8.20%) Security Operations
13 20 (7.81%) Incident Management
13 20 (7.81%) ISMS
14 19 (7.42%) Disaster Recovery
15 17 (6.64%) Roadmaps
16 16 (6.25%) Agile
16 16 (6.25%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.69%) Bash
2 9 (3.52%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.73%) Java
4 6 (2.34%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.34%) Kotlin
4 6 (2.34%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.17%) SQL
6 2 (0.78%) Python
7 1 (0.39%) ABAP
7 1 (0.39%) C#
7 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (16.80%) CISSP
2 40 (15.63%) CISM
3 26 (10.16%) CISA
4 23 (8.98%) Degree
5 22 (8.59%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (8.59%) Security Cleared
6 19 (7.42%) CCNA
7 18 (7.03%) Azure Certification
8 17 (6.64%) CCNP
9 16 (6.25%) SC Cleared
10 13 (5.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 10 (3.91%) CRISC
12 7 (2.73%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (2.73%) PMI Certification
12 7 (2.73%) PMP
13 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.56%) ISACA
13 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (1.17%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (60.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (26.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 49 (19.14%) NIST
4 31 (12.11%) GDPR
5 23 (8.98%) GRC
5 23 (8.98%) SOC 2
6 20 (7.81%) PCI DSS
7 18 (7.03%) SLA
8 16 (6.25%) NCSC
9 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.56%) COBIT
9 4 (1.56%) ISO 9001
10 3 (1.17%) QA
11 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.78%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 49 (19.14%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.47%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.73%) Docker
5 2 (0.78%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 44 (17.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (7.42%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (2.73%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.73%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.34%) Grafana
4 6 (2.34%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.17%) PaperCut
7 2 (0.78%) CASB
7 2 (0.78%) Nessus
7 2 (0.78%) SCCM
7 2 (0.78%) WSUS
8 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.39%) QRadar
8 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 95 (37.11%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.50%) Cisco
3 29 (11.33%) Fortinet
4 21 (8.20%) VMware
5 17 (6.64%) Apple
6 11 (4.30%) Google
7 10 (3.91%) Darktrace
8 9 (3.52%) Veeam
9 5 (1.95%) HP
9 5 (1.95%) NEC
10 4 (1.56%) Aruba
10 4 (1.56%) Barracuda Networks
10 4 (1.56%) Intel
10 4 (1.56%) Sophos
11 3 (1.17%) BT
11 3 (1.17%) Canon
11 3 (1.17%) Juniper
11 3 (1.17%) Oracle
11 3 (1.17%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.17%) SolarWinds