Cyber Essentials Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 362 350 437
Rank change year-on-year -12 +87 -29
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 39 80 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.35% 0.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.30% 2.38% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 53 53
10th Percentile £165 £365 £228
25th Percentile £281 £500 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +9.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £31.50 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year - -28.33% +109.29%
UK median hourly rate - £31.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year - +14.55% +30.95%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,989 3,358 4,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.02% 14.80% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,712 2,194 3,095
10th Percentile £250 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 198 198
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.72 £18.02 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.18 £37.50 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.87% +67.45% +7.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.69 £48.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.18 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Essentials in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Essentials in the UK excluding London

Cyber Essentials
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Scotland +34 11 £500 -8.26% 5
South West +5 9 £575 +187.50% 11
North of England +14 8 £375 -26.47% 20
North West +17 7 £400 -13.51% 10
Midlands +10 6 £625 +25.00% 31
West Midlands +11 4 £750 +50.00% 19
South East -3 4 £170 -73.85% 24
East Midlands +7 2 £500 +2.56% 12
Yorkshire +9 1 £250 -50.98% 10
Wales - 1 £250 - 5
Cyber Essentials
UK

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.69%) Confluence
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) Azure
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (7.69%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) GCP
3 2 (5.13%) GitHub
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) DNS
1 3 (7.69%) Intranet
2 2 (5.13%) Firewall
3 1 (2.56%) DHCP
3 1 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.56%) SAN
3 1 (2.56%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Ant
General
1 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
4 3 (7.69%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Architect
2 6 (15.38%) Security Specialist
3 4 (10.26%) Information Security Specialist
3 4 (10.26%) Information Specialist
3 4 (10.26%) IT Manager
3 4 (10.26%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Compliance Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Governance Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) IT Governance Manager
4 3 (7.69%) IT Support
4 3 (7.69%) Lead
4 3 (7.69%) Security Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Service Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Coordinator
5 2 (5.13%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.69%) Wiki
3 2 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (33.33%) Information Security
3 12 (30.77%) Risk Management
4 9 (23.08%) Project Management
5 8 (20.51%) ITIL
6 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.38%) Information Management
8 5 (12.82%) Data Protection
8 5 (12.82%) ISMS
8 5 (12.82%) IT Strategy
8 5 (12.82%) Risk Analysis
8 5 (12.82%) Security Architecture
9 4 (10.26%) Logistics
9 4 (10.26%) Migration
9 4 (10.26%) Risk Register
9 4 (10.26%) Security Operations
9 4 (10.26%) Service Management
10 3 (7.69%) Business Strategy
10 3 (7.69%) Roadmaps
10 3 (7.69%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.13%) Go
2 2 (5.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.13%) MCSE
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (56.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (25.64%) NIST
3 8 (20.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (12.82%) GDPR
4 5 (12.82%) PCI DSS
5 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (7.69%) IASME
6 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (2.56%) GRC
7 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Ansible
1 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.13%) SCCM
1 2 (5.13%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.56%) SCOM
2 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.13%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.13%) VMware
4 1 (2.56%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco
4 1 (2.56%) Citrix
4 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds