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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 431 525
Rank change year-on-year +43 +94 +98
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 666 733 988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.73% 0.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.89% 3.84% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 580 376 507
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,260 £35,190
25th Percentile £41,094 £43,477 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +11.77%
75th Percentile £65,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%

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 13,619 19,077 26,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.73% 18.89% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9,260 8,866 13,140
10th Percentile £27,000 £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% +3.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,346
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

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 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in the UK

Cyber Essentials
Top 16 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 10 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 +71 610 £55,000 - 140
UK excluding London +24 506 £52,500 -2.78% 107
Work from Home +2 259 £55,000 -3.08% 68
North of England +28 159 £52,250 +14.21% 32
London +50 124 £65,000 +15.06% 31
South East +46 116 £55,000 - 30
Midlands +54 111 £47,500 -15.18% 17
West Midlands +67 98 £55,000 +3.77% 7
North West -41 83 £55,000 +22.22% 15
South West -42 65 £55,000 - 13
Yorkshire +96 52 £55,000 -8.33% 14
East of England +29 31 £52,500 -4.55% 7
North East +11 24 £41,000 -25.45% 3
Scotland -62 19 £45,000 -18.18% 6
East Midlands -11 13 £45,000 -20.35% 10
Wales -10 5 £40,500 -32.50% 3

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 (6.61%) SharePoint
2 27 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.20%) WordPress
4 6 (0.90%) nginx
5 4 (0.60%) Confluence
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Drupal
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 69 (10.36%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (6.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.30%) Farmplan
2 2 (0.30%) KEYPrime
2 2 (0.30%) 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
1 240 (36.04%) Microsoft 365
2 230 (34.53%) Azure
3 99 (14.86%) Entra ID
4 61 (9.16%) AWS
5 37 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 29 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 27 (4.05%) SaaS
8 23 (3.45%) IaaS
9 15 (2.25%) Google Workspace
10 14 (2.10%) PaaS
11 11 (1.65%) OneDrive
12 9 (1.35%) GCP
13 8 (1.20%) WhatsApp
14 6 (0.90%) npm
14 6 (0.90%) Serverless
14 6 (0.90%) Yarn
15 5 (0.75%) Mimecast
15 5 (0.75%) Nutanix
16 4 (0.60%) Power Automate
16 4 (0.60%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 161 (24.17%) Firewall
2 53 (7.96%) LAN
2 53 (7.96%) WAN
3 50 (7.51%) DNS
4 33 (4.95%) NAS
5 30 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (3.90%) Wireless
7 25 (3.75%) DHCP
7 25 (3.75%) Network Security
8 23 (3.45%) MPLS
9 21 (3.15%) VLAN
10 18 (2.70%) SD-WAN
11 17 (2.55%) Intranet
11 17 (2.55%) TCP/IP
11 17 (2.55%) VoIP
11 17 (2.55%) VPN
12 16 (2.40%) Intrusion Detection
13 14 (2.10%) 4G
13 14 (2.10%) 5G
14 13 (1.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.90%) Power BI
2 12 (1.80%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.90%) MongoDB
3 6 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.90%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.30%) 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 6 (0.90%) Cypress.io
1 6 (0.90%) JIRA
1 6 (0.90%) Mocha
2 1 (0.15%) GitLab
2 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 262 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 89 (13.36%) Finance
3 64 (9.61%) Public Sector
4 61 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (7.96%) Law
6 40 (6.01%) Legal
7 29 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.55%) Games
9 15 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.10%) Retail
11 13 (1.95%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.20%) Automotive
14 8 (1.20%) Local Government
15 6 (0.90%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.90%) Military
16 5 (0.75%) Publishing
17 4 (0.60%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 107 (16.07%) Analyst
2 79 (11.86%) IT Manager
2 79 (11.86%) Security Analyst
3 75 (11.26%) Security Manager
4 56 (8.41%) Senior
5 46 (6.91%) Consultant
6 43 (6.46%) Lead
7 37 (5.56%) Service Manager
8 36 (5.41%) Information Analyst
8 36 (5.41%) Information Security Analyst
8 36 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 36 (5.41%) IT Support
9 30 (4.50%) Architect
10 29 (4.35%) Information Security Manager
11 27 (4.05%) Information Manager
11 27 (4.05%) Security Consultant
12 26 (3.90%) IT Engineer
13 25 (3.75%) Technical Manager
14 24 (3.60%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 22 (3.30%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.80%) OAuth
2 9 (1.35%) SAML
3 8 (1.20%) ModSecurity
4 6 (0.90%) .NET
4 6 (0.90%) AngularJS
4 6 (0.90%) Express.js
4 6 (0.90%) GraphQL
4 6 (0.90%) gRPC
4 6 (0.90%) Jest
4 6 (0.90%) JWT
4 6 (0.90%) Kafka
4 6 (0.90%) MEAN Stack
4 6 (0.90%) MERN Stack
4 6 (0.90%) Mongoose
4 6 (0.90%) NestJS
4 6 (0.90%) Node.js
4 6 (0.90%) OAuth2
4 6 (0.90%) OpenAPI
4 6 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (0.90%) React
Miscellaneous
1 90 (13.51%) Management Information System
2 65 (9.76%) Driving Licence
3 47 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (4.95%) Security Posture
5 29 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
6 27 (4.05%) Onboarding
7 26 (3.90%) Data Centre
8 25 (3.75%) IoT
9 24 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (3.30%) NHS
11 12 (1.80%) Cloud Native
11 12 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
13 9 (1.35%) ARM Cortex
13 9 (1.35%) CCTV
13 9 (1.35%) PKI
14 8 (1.20%) Cyberattack
14 8 (1.20%) Replication
15 7 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 152 (22.82%) Windows
2 101 (15.17%) Windows Server
3 38 (5.71%) Windows 10
4 28 (4.20%) Linux
5 22 (3.30%) Mac OS
6 20 (3.00%) Apple iOS
6 20 (3.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (2.40%) Android
8 8 (1.20%) VMS
9 7 (1.05%) Debian
9 7 (1.05%) Ubuntu
9 7 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.45%) Unix
11 2 (0.30%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (48.05%) Cybersecurity
2 251 (37.69%) Information Security
3 169 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
4 124 (18.62%) ITIL
5 96 (14.41%) Incident Response
6 79 (11.86%) Data Protection
7 71 (10.66%) Risk Management
7 71 (10.66%) SIEM
8 70 (10.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 69 (10.36%) Business Continuity
10 60 (9.01%) Customer Service
11 59 (8.86%) Security Management
12 58 (8.71%) Penetration Testing
13 57 (8.56%) Service Delivery
14 56 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 56 (8.41%) Security Operations
15 50 (7.51%) Vulnerability Management
16 48 (7.21%) Disaster Recovery
17 42 (6.31%) ISMS
17 42 (6.31%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 26 (3.90%) SQL
2 21 (3.15%) Bash
3 17 (2.55%) PowerShell
3 17 (2.55%) Python
4 11 (1.65%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.05%) Java
6 6 (0.90%) Kotlin
6 6 (0.90%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.30%) Bicep
8 1 (0.15%) ABAP
8 1 (0.15%) C#
8 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 100 (15.02%) CISSP
2 97 (14.56%) Security Cleared
3 89 (13.36%) Degree
4 70 (10.51%) CISM
5 52 (7.81%) Cisco Certification
6 48 (7.21%) CISA
7 32 (4.80%) SC Cleared
8 30 (4.50%) Azure Certification
9 26 (3.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 26 (3.90%) CCNA
10 24 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (3.45%) CCSP
11 23 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 21 (3.15%) DBS Check
13 20 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
14 19 (2.85%) CRISC
15 18 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
16 17 (2.55%) CCNP
17 14 (2.10%) AWS Certification
18 13 (1.95%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 376 (56.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 170 (25.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 157 (23.57%) GDPR
4 129 (19.37%) NIST
5 50 (7.51%) ISO 9001
6 49 (7.36%) PCI DSS
7 45 (6.76%) GRC
8 40 (6.01%) NCSC
9 36 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 26 (3.90%) SLA
10 26 (3.90%) SOC 2
11 23 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 19 (2.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (2.10%) QA
14 10 (1.50%) COSHH
15 9 (1.35%) COBIT
16 7 (1.05%) IASME
16 7 (1.05%) PMO
17 6 (0.90%) Accessibility
17 6 (0.90%) NIST 800
System Software
1 124 (18.62%) Active Directory
2 53 (7.96%) Hyper-V
3 27 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.40%) Docker
6 5 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.30%) pfSense
9 2 (0.30%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.30%) vSphere
10 1 (0.15%) LXC
Systems Management
1 65 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (6.16%) Single Sign-On
3 36 (5.41%) EnCase
4 25 (3.75%) FortiGate
5 9 (1.35%) Terraform
6 8 (1.20%) Kubernetes
7 6 (0.90%) Grafana
7 6 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.90%) WSUS
8 5 (0.75%) Nessus
8 5 (0.75%) SCCM
8 5 (0.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.60%) PaperCut
10 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.30%) Ansible
11 2 (0.30%) CASB
11 2 (0.30%) QRadar
12 1 (0.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 304 (45.65%) Microsoft
2 58 (8.71%) Cisco
3 54 (8.11%) VMware
4 32 (4.80%) Fortinet
5 27 (4.05%) Sophos
6 22 (3.30%) Apple
7 21 (3.15%) Veeam
8 20 (3.00%) Darktrace
9 18 (2.70%) HP
10 17 (2.55%) Google
11 14 (2.10%) Dell
11 14 (2.10%) NEC
12 13 (1.95%) Mitel
13 12 (1.80%) Citrix
14 10 (1.50%) Meraki
15 9 (1.35%) Acronis
15 9 (1.35%) Aruba
15 9 (1.35%) Ribbon
16 8 (1.20%) Barracuda Networks
17 7 (1.05%) Draytek