Cyber Essentials Jobs in the West Midlands

Cyber Essentials
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 173 219 249
Rank change year-on-year +46 +30 -35
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 91 34 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.06% 0.59% 0.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.51% 2.24% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 76 27 22
10th Percentile £27,375 £32,300 £31,400
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £84,250 £91,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West 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 permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,212 1,521 1,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.14% 26.32% 19.41%
Number of salaries quoted 873 668 863
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,350 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +9.47% +1.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the West Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in the West Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in the West Midlands

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the West 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -3 34 £37,500 -37.50% 11
Warwickshire +33 21 £60,000 +41.18% 3
Staffordshire -20 14 £57,500 +64.29% 4
Shropshire - 9 £37,500 -
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Wednesbury - 2 - -
Halesowen - 1 £25,000 -
Solihull - 1 £67,000 - 1
Cyber Essentials
England

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 17 (18.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 37 (40.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 37 (40.66%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (20.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.25%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (25.27%) Azure
3 19 (20.88%) Entra ID
4 18 (19.78%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.40%) IaaS
6 1 (1.10%) AWS
6 1 (1.10%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.58%) Intranet
2 12 (13.19%) Wireless
3 10 (10.99%) Firewall
4 8 (8.79%) LAN
5 6 (6.59%) MPLS
5 6 (6.59%) SD-WAN
6 4 (4.40%) DHCP
6 4 (4.40%) DNS
6 4 (4.40%) NGFW
7 2 (2.20%) VLAN
7 2 (2.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.78%) Power BI
2 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
General
1 52 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 28 (30.77%) Finance
3 22 (24.18%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.19%) Law
5 6 (6.59%) Legal
5 6 (6.59%) Local Government
6 5 (5.49%) Automotive
7 2 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 18 (19.78%) IT Manager
2 16 (17.58%) IT Support
3 11 (12.09%) Support Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) IT Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) IT Support Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) Security Manager
5 6 (6.59%) 1st Line Support
5 6 (6.59%) 1st Line Support Technician
5 6 (6.59%) First Line Help Desk Support
5 6 (6.59%) Help Desk Support
5 6 (6.59%) Help Desk Support Technician
5 6 (6.59%) Help Desk Technician
5 6 (6.59%) Information Manager
5 6 (6.59%) Information Security Manager
5 6 (6.59%) IT Support Technician
5 6 (6.59%) IT Technician
5 6 (6.59%) Support Technician
6 5 (5.49%) Support Officer
7 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.10%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (27.47%) Driving Licence
2 10 (10.99%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.79%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.69%) Management Information System
5 6 (6.59%) CCTV
6 3 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.20%) BYOD
7 2 (2.20%) Cyberattack
7 2 (2.20%) Cybercrime
7 2 (2.20%) NHS
8 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (24.18%) Windows
2 9 (9.89%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.20%) Android
3 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.20%) Linux
3 2 (2.20%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (41.76%) ITIL
3 34 (37.36%) Cybersecurity
4 27 (29.67%) Incident Response
5 24 (26.37%) Digital Strategy
6 19 (20.88%) Data Collection
7 18 (19.78%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (18.68%) Information Security
8 17 (18.68%) Service Delivery
9 16 (17.58%) Data Governance
9 16 (17.58%) Information Governance
9 16 (17.58%) Line Management
10 11 (12.09%) Data Protection
10 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (9.89%) Break/Fix
12 7 (7.69%) Business Continuity
13 6 (6.59%) Agile
13 6 (6.59%) IT Strategy
14 5 (5.49%) Due Diligence
14 5 (5.49%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.59%) SQL
2 2 (2.20%) Bash
2 2 (2.20%) Bicep
2 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.20%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.09%) CISM
2 11 (12.09%) CISSP
3 10 (10.99%) Degree
4 8 (8.79%) DBS Check
5 3 (3.30%) CITP
6 2 (2.20%) CISA
6 2 (2.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (2.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.20%) OSCP
7 1 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.10%) CRISC
7 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.10%) PMP
7 1 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (30.77%) GDPR
3 19 (20.88%) ISO 9001
3 19 (20.88%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 16 (17.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 9 (9.89%) NIST
5 9 (9.89%) QA
6 6 (6.59%) PCI DSS
7 4 (4.40%) GRC
8 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.10%) ISO 22301
9 1 (1.10%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (20.88%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.40%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (2.20%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (20.88%) EnCase
2 15 (16.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 69 (75.82%) Microsoft
2 20 (21.98%) Sophos
3 8 (8.79%) Veeam
4 6 (6.59%) VMware
5 4 (4.40%) Aruba
5 4 (4.40%) Barracuda Networks
5 4 (4.40%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.20%) Cisco
6 2 (2.20%) Citrix
6 2 (2.20%) Dell
6 2 (2.20%) Meraki