Cyber Essentials
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 425 534
Rank change year-on-year +28 +109 +64
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 652 713 1,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.73% 0.61%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.78% 3.95% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 565 369 522
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,171 £35,350
25th Percentile £41,125 £43,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £66,294 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,973 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.87% +4.76% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,629 18,029 28,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 18.52% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,164 8,543 13,451
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,825
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.55% +0.68%

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 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in the UK

Cyber Essentials
Top 17 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 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +45 594 £55,000 - 142
UK excluding London +29 498 £53,973 -1.87% 113
Work from Home +15 268 £55,000 -3.93% 57
North of England +18 161 £53,750 +15.59% 28
South East +43 121 £55,000 - 30
London +69 118 £65,000 +15.06% 30
Midlands +49 100 £45,000 -19.64% 24
North West -40 87 £55,000 +22.22% 14
West Midlands +63 86 £45,000 -10.00% 16
South West -48 60 £55,000 -12.00% 16
Yorkshire +81 51 £55,000 - 11
East of England +8 31 £52,500 -4.55% 9
North East +13 23 £42,000 -19.04% 3
Scotland -62 19 £45,000 -18.18% 4
East Midlands -12 14 £45,982 -18.62% 8
Wales -10 5 £40,500 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 44 (6.75%) SharePoint
2 27 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.23%) WordPress
4 6 (0.92%) Confluence
4 6 (0.92%) nginx
5 2 (0.31%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Drupal
6 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 57 (8.74%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.31%) Farmplan
2 2 (0.31%) KEYPrime
2 2 (0.31%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 235 (36.04%) Microsoft 365
2 231 (35.43%) Azure
3 98 (15.03%) Entra ID
4 66 (10.12%) AWS
5 37 (5.67%) Cloud Computing
6 31 (4.75%) Power Platform
7 29 (4.45%) SaaS
8 23 (3.53%) IaaS
9 15 (2.30%) Google Workspace
10 14 (2.15%) PaaS
11 13 (1.99%) OneDrive
12 12 (1.84%) GCP
13 6 (0.92%) npm
13 6 (0.92%) Serverless
13 6 (0.92%) Yarn
14 5 (0.77%) Mimecast
14 5 (0.77%) Nutanix
14 5 (0.77%) WhatsApp
15 4 (0.61%) Power Automate
16 3 (0.46%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 163 (25.00%) Firewall
2 54 (8.28%) WAN
3 49 (7.52%) DNS
3 49 (7.52%) LAN
4 33 (5.06%) NAS
5 30 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
6 27 (4.14%) Network Security
7 26 (3.99%) MPLS
8 25 (3.83%) DHCP
9 24 (3.68%) Wireless
10 21 (3.22%) VLAN
11 18 (2.76%) SD-WAN
11 18 (2.76%) VPN
12 17 (2.61%) 4G
12 17 (2.61%) 5G
12 17 (2.61%) Intranet
13 16 (2.45%) Intrusion Detection
14 15 (2.30%) TCP/IP
15 13 (1.99%) Internet
16 12 (1.84%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.99%) Power BI
2 12 (1.84%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.92%) MongoDB
3 6 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.92%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.15%) Lumira
6 1 (0.15%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 8 (1.23%) JIRA
2 6 (0.92%) Cypress.io
2 6 (0.92%) Mocha
3 4 (0.61%) GitLab
4 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 241 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 92 (14.11%) Finance
3 64 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (7.67%) Law
4 50 (7.67%) Public Sector
5 33 (5.06%) Legal
5 33 (5.06%) Telecoms
6 17 (2.61%) Games
7 15 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.15%) Retail
9 13 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.23%) Automotive
12 8 (1.23%) Local Government
13 6 (0.92%) Advertising
13 6 (0.92%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.92%) Military
14 5 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 102 (15.64%) Analyst
2 77 (11.81%) Security Analyst
3 74 (11.35%) IT Manager
4 71 (10.89%) Security Manager
5 54 (8.28%) Senior
6 45 (6.90%) Lead
7 42 (6.44%) Consultant
8 38 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (5.67%) Information Analyst
9 37 (5.67%) Information Security Analyst
9 37 (5.67%) Service Manager
10 35 (5.37%) IT Support
11 32 (4.91%) Architect
12 29 (4.45%) Information Security Manager
13 27 (4.14%) Information Manager
14 25 (3.83%) IT Engineer
14 25 (3.83%) Technical Manager
15 23 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 23 (3.53%) Security Consultant
16 22 (3.37%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.84%) OAuth
2 11 (1.69%) SAML
3 9 (1.38%) ModSecurity
4 6 (0.92%) .NET
4 6 (0.92%) AngularJS
4 6 (0.92%) Express.js
4 6 (0.92%) GraphQL
4 6 (0.92%) gRPC
4 6 (0.92%) Jest
4 6 (0.92%) JWT
4 6 (0.92%) Kafka
4 6 (0.92%) MEAN Stack
4 6 (0.92%) MERN Stack
4 6 (0.92%) Mongoose
4 6 (0.92%) NestJS
4 6 (0.92%) Node.js
4 6 (0.92%) OAuth2
4 6 (0.92%) OpenAPI
4 6 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (0.92%) React
Miscellaneous
1 88 (13.50%) Management Information System
2 55 (8.44%) Driving Licence
3 46 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (4.60%) Security Posture
5 27 (4.14%) Cyber Threat
5 27 (4.14%) IoT
6 26 (3.99%) Data Centre
6 26 (3.99%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (3.68%) NHS
7 24 (3.68%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.69%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (1.38%) ARM Cortex
10 9 (1.38%) CCTV
10 9 (1.38%) PKI
10 9 (1.38%) Replication
11 8 (1.23%) Cyberattack
12 7 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.07%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 152 (23.31%) Windows
2 100 (15.34%) Windows Server
3 37 (5.67%) Windows 10
4 27 (4.14%) Linux
5 22 (3.37%) Apple iOS
6 21 (3.22%) Mac OS
6 21 (3.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (2.76%) Android
8 8 (1.23%) VMS
9 7 (1.07%) Debian
9 7 (1.07%) Ubuntu
9 7 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.46%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.46%) Unix
10 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (46.47%) Cybersecurity
2 248 (38.04%) Information Security
3 156 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
4 124 (19.02%) ITIL
5 83 (12.73%) Data Protection
6 80 (12.27%) Incident Response
7 73 (11.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 71 (10.89%) Business Continuity
9 70 (10.74%) SIEM
10 64 (9.82%) Risk Management
11 59 (9.05%) Security Management
12 58 (8.90%) Customer Service
13 56 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (8.44%) Service Delivery
15 52 (7.98%) Security Operations
16 51 (7.82%) Penetration Testing
17 45 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
18 44 (6.75%) Vulnerability Management
19 43 (6.60%) ISMS
20 42 (6.44%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 26 (3.99%) SQL
2 21 (3.22%) Bash
3 20 (3.07%) Python
4 17 (2.61%) PowerShell
5 11 (1.69%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.07%) Java
7 6 (0.92%) Kotlin
7 6 (0.92%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.46%) Go
9 2 (0.31%) Bicep
10 1 (0.15%) ABAP
10 1 (0.15%) C#
10 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 103 (15.80%) CISSP
2 82 (12.58%) Degree
3 79 (12.12%) Security Cleared
4 73 (11.20%) CISM
5 50 (7.67%) CISA
5 50 (7.67%) Cisco Certification
6 30 (4.60%) Azure Certification
7 29 (4.45%) SC Cleared
8 26 (3.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 25 (3.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 24 (3.68%) CCNA
11 23 (3.53%) CCSP
11 23 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (3.22%) DBS Check
13 19 (2.91%) CRISC
14 18 (2.76%) CompTIA Security+
14 18 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
15 17 (2.61%) CCNP
16 14 (2.15%) AWS Certification
17 13 (1.99%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (55.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 171 (26.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 157 (24.08%) GDPR
4 129 (19.79%) NIST
5 55 (8.44%) PCI DSS
6 49 (7.52%) GRC
7 42 (6.44%) NCSC
8 38 (5.83%) ISO 9001
9 27 (4.14%) SLA
10 26 (3.99%) SOC 2
11 23 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 23 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 21 (3.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (1.99%) QA
14 10 (1.53%) COSHH
15 9 (1.38%) COBIT
16 7 (1.07%) IASME
16 7 (1.07%) PMO
17 6 (0.92%) Accessibility
18 5 (0.77%) NIST 800
System Software
1 123 (18.87%) Active Directory
2 54 (8.28%) Hyper-V
3 26 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (2.76%) Docker
6 5 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.31%) pfSense
9 2 (0.31%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.15%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.15%) LXC
Systems Management
1 64 (9.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (6.29%) Single Sign-On
3 26 (3.99%) FortiGate
4 23 (3.53%) EnCase
5 12 (1.84%) Terraform
6 10 (1.53%) Kubernetes
7 6 (0.92%) Grafana
7 6 (0.92%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.77%) Nessus
8 5 (0.77%) SCCM
8 5 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.77%) WSUS
9 4 (0.61%) Ansible
9 4 (0.61%) PaperCut
10 2 (0.31%) CASB
10 2 (0.31%) QRadar
11 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 288 (44.17%) Microsoft
2 63 (9.66%) Cisco
3 49 (7.52%) VMware
4 33 (5.06%) Fortinet
5 27 (4.14%) Sophos
6 23 (3.53%) Darktrace
7 21 (3.22%) Apple
8 20 (3.07%) HP
8 20 (3.07%) Veeam
9 17 (2.61%) Google
9 17 (2.61%) NEC
10 14 (2.15%) Dell
11 13 (1.99%) Mitel
12 12 (1.84%) Citrix
13 10 (1.53%) Meraki
14 9 (1.38%) Aruba
14 9 (1.38%) Ribbon
15 8 (1.23%) Barracuda Networks
16 7 (1.07%) Acronis
16 7 (1.07%) Qualys