Cyber Essentials PLUS Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Cyber Essentials PLUS
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Cyber Essentials PLUS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 78 116
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS 2 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.25% 0.36% 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.13% 4.55% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £52,875 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,438 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,250 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +73.08% -38.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,438 £60,000
90th Percentile - £58,625 £75,750
South West median annual salary £51,250 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -6.58%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Gloucestershire

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 64 44 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.10% 7.86% 12.87%
Number of salaries quoted 40 23 123
10th Percentile £28,450 £32,150 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +50.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £59,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £74,500 £75,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,396
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.97% +4.79%

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyber Essentials PLUS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Cyber Essentials PLUS job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Cyber Essentials PLUS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Cyber Essentials PLUS

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials PLUS within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. 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
Cheltenham - 1 £65,000 - 1
Gloucester - 1 - - 2
Cyber Essentials PLUS
South West

Cyber Essentials PLUS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Information Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Information Systems Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Security Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) ISMS
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HubSpot
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Xero