Cyber Essentials Contracts in England

Cyber Essentials
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cyber Essentials skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 553 663
Rank change year-on-year +75 +110 -95
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 59 98 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.15% 1.53% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 70 79
10th Percentile £262 £344 £266
25th Percentile £388 £456 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £702 £613
90th Percentile £673 £800 £704
UK median daily rate £500 £545 £480
% change year-on-year -8.26% +13.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £41.50
75th Percentile - - £43.95
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £41.50
% change year-on-year - - +97.62%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,125 6,421 9,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.09% 13.33% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,289 4,357 6,302
10th Percentile £300 £290 £290
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 215 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.63 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £20.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +27.12% +40.48%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £79.90 £69.52
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in England

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in England.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in England

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in England

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Essentials in England

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +88 30 £500 -16.67% 35
South West +15 9 £575 +24.32% 17
North of England +25 8 £375 -3.23% 36
North West +19 7 £400 -0.31% 20
Midlands +19 6 £675 +22.73% 21
West Midlands +16 4 £750 +36.36% 11
South East -2 4 £170 -72.80% 33
East Midlands - 2 £600 - 10
Yorkshire +13 1 £250 -35.48% 13
Cyber Essentials
UK

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (10.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.39%) Confluence
3 2 (3.39%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.81%) Azure
2 15 (25.42%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (13.56%) AWS
4 5 (8.47%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (6.78%) GCP
5 4 (6.78%) IaaS
5 4 (6.78%) PaaS
6 3 (5.08%) SaaS
7 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.39%) GitHub
7 2 (3.39%) npm
7 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.39%) Serverless
7 2 (3.39%) Yarn
8 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.69%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.69%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.69%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) Firewall
2 5 (8.47%) DNS
3 3 (5.08%) Intranet
3 3 (5.08%) Network Security
3 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.39%) AMQP
4 2 (3.39%) DMZ
4 2 (3.39%) LAN
4 2 (3.39%) SSL
4 2 (3.39%) VPN
5 1 (1.69%) DHCP
5 1 (1.69%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket
1 2 (3.39%) Cypress.io
1 2 (3.39%) GitLab
1 2 (3.39%) JIRA
1 2 (3.39%) Mocha
2 1 (1.69%) Git
General
1 11 (18.64%) Finance
1 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.08%) Banking
4 3 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.08%) Legal
5 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Advertising
6 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.69%) Local Government
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
6 1 (1.69%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 14 (23.73%) Architect
2 6 (10.17%) Security Specialist
2 6 (10.17%) Senior
3 5 (8.47%) Analyst
3 5 (8.47%) Consultant
3 5 (8.47%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 5 (8.47%) Information Security Specialist
3 5 (8.47%) Information Specialist
3 5 (8.47%) IT Manager
3 5 (8.47%) Security Analyst
3 5 (8.47%) Security Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Security Consultant
4 4 (6.78%) Service Architect
4 4 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.08%) Compliance Manager
5 3 (5.08%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (5.08%) Governance Manager
5 3 (5.08%) IT Governance Manager
5 3 (5.08%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) OAuth
1 5 (8.47%) SAML
2 3 (5.08%) OAuth2
2 3 (5.08%) REST
3 2 (3.39%) .NET
3 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.39%) Express.js
3 2 (3.39%) GraphQL
3 2 (3.39%) gRPC
3 2 (3.39%) Jest
3 2 (3.39%) JWT
3 2 (3.39%) Kafka
3 2 (3.39%) MEAN Stack
3 2 (3.39%) MERN Stack
3 2 (3.39%) Mongoose
3 2 (3.39%) NestJS
3 2 (3.39%) OpenAPI
3 2 (3.39%) OpenID
3 2 (3.39%) React
3 2 (3.39%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Management Information System
2 7 (11.86%) Security Posture
3 5 (8.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.08%) Wiki
6 2 (3.39%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.39%) NHS
6 2 (3.39%) PKI
7 1 (1.69%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Windows
2 4 (6.78%) Windows 10
3 3 (5.08%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.39%) Android
4 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.39%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.69%) Linux
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (30.51%) Information Security
3 15 (25.42%) Risk Management
4 10 (16.95%) Project Management
5 9 (15.25%) Data Protection
5 9 (15.25%) IT Strategy
6 8 (13.56%) Agile
6 8 (13.56%) Information Management
6 8 (13.56%) ITIL
6 8 (13.56%) Vulnerability Management
7 7 (11.86%) Incident Response
8 6 (10.17%) Business Continuity
8 6 (10.17%) Business Strategy
8 6 (10.17%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (10.17%) ISMS
8 6 (10.17%) Migration
8 6 (10.17%) Security Architecture
9 5 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (8.47%) Data Security
9 5 (8.47%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.25%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.78%) Python
3 2 (3.39%) Bash
3 2 (3.39%) Go
3 2 (3.39%) Java
3 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.39%) Kotlin
3 2 (3.39%) SQL
3 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.69%) C#
4 1 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Degree
2 7 (11.86%) CISSP
2 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.78%) CISM
5 3 (5.08%) CISA
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.69%) CEH
7 1 (1.69%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.69%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (47.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (28.81%) NIST
3 13 (22.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 8 (13.56%) GDPR
5 7 (11.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (6.78%) IASME
6 4 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 4 (6.78%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.69%) GRC
7 1 (1.69%) ISAE 3402
7 1 (1.69%) QA
7 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.78%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (6.78%) Nessus
1 4 (6.78%) SCCM
2 2 (3.39%) Ansible
2 2 (3.39%) Grafana
2 2 (3.39%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.39%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (44.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) Qualys
2 5 (8.47%) Rapid7
2 5 (8.47%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) Adobe
4 2 (3.39%) Apple
4 2 (3.39%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.39%) CA
4 2 (3.39%) Cisco
5 1 (1.69%) Aruba
5 1 (1.69%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.69%) Juniper
5 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.69%) Splunk
5 1 (1.69%) Zscaler