Cyber Essentials Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cyber Essentials
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 138 161
Rank change year-on-year +5 +23 -20
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 4 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.15% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.00% 2.23% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 11
10th Percentile - - £354
25th Percentile £165 £613 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £170 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -72.80% +25.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £175 £638 £588
90th Percentile - - £775
South East median daily rate £170 £650 £400
% change year-on-year -73.85% +62.50% -27.93%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 399 403 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.88% 14.01% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 235 335
10th Percentile £216 £306 £225
25th Percentile £325 £419 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £584
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 16
10th Percentile £18.15 £16.03 £10.26
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.50 £11.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.00 £17.76
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +35.17% -15.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.30 £22.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £73.66 £46.93
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £46.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.54% +120.24% -17.65%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the Thames Valley

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in the Thames Valley

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Buckinghamshire - 4 £170 -
Cyber Essentials
South East

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security Specialist
1 4 (100.00%) Information Specialist
1 4 (100.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (75.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) ISMS
1 4 (100.00%) Logistics
1 4 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Risk Register
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft