Cyber Essentials Contracts in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 135 145 198
Rank change year-on-year +10 +53 -40
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 6 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.20% 0.40% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.50% 2.73% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile - £438 £214
25th Percentile £500 £469 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +53.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £775 £563 £413
90th Percentile - £600 £506
England median daily rate £513 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% +8.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 400 477 706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.57% 14.82% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 304 510
10th Percentile £240 £265 £212
25th Percentile £313 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £578 £556
90th Percentile £755 £679 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 22 14
10th Percentile £11.32 £12.50 £12.55
25th Percentile £13.14 £18.69 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.70 £27.50 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year -46.55% +58.94% +27.67%
75th Percentile £34.20 £31.32 £20.56
90th Percentile £58.75 £64.00 £25.63
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in the Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +11 4 £750 +50.00% 19
East Midlands +7 2 £500 +2.56% 12
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
1 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
1 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Coaching
2 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Management
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Data Encryption
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (16.67%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) VMware