Cyber Essentials Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cyber Essentials
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 340 356 605
Rank change year-on-year +16 +249 -133
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 284 305 303
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.80% 0.81% 0.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.49% 5.51% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 239 177 235
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,700 £35,040
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £84,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,376 5,533 12,234
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.31% 14.76% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,243 3,757 6,200
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

Cyber Essentials
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cyber Essentials trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cyber Essentials.

Cyber Essentials salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cyber Essentials over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Cyber Essentials salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.99%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.11%) nginx
4 5 (1.76%) Confluence
5 3 (1.06%) WordPress
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Drupal
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.35%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 116 (40.85%) Azure
2 98 (34.51%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (17.61%) Entra ID
4 27 (9.51%) AWS
5 22 (7.75%) Cloud Computing
6 16 (5.63%) IaaS
6 16 (5.63%) SaaS
7 11 (3.87%) Google Workspace
8 10 (3.52%) GCP
9 9 (3.17%) PaaS
10 8 (2.82%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.11%) npm
11 6 (2.11%) OneDrive
11 6 (2.11%) Serverless
11 6 (2.11%) WhatsApp
11 6 (2.11%) Yarn
12 4 (1.41%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (1.06%) OCI
13 3 (1.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 75 (26.41%) Firewall
2 25 (8.80%) DNS
3 21 (7.39%) WAN
4 20 (7.04%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (5.99%) Wireless
6 12 (4.23%) Broadband
6 12 (4.23%) NAS
7 11 (3.87%) Internet
7 11 (3.87%) LAN
7 11 (3.87%) MPLS
7 11 (3.87%) Network Security
8 10 (3.52%) Intrusion Detection
9 9 (3.17%) SD-WAN
10 8 (2.82%) 4G
10 8 (2.82%) 5G
10 8 (2.82%) VLAN
11 7 (2.46%) DHCP
11 7 (2.46%) PBX
11 7 (2.46%) TCP/IP
12 6 (2.11%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.58%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (2.11%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.70%) Power BI
5 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Cypress.io
1 6 (2.11%) Mocha
2 5 (1.76%) JIRA
3 3 (1.06%) GitLab
4 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
General
1 88 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (11.27%) Finance
4 25 (8.80%) Law
5 13 (4.58%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.58%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.87%) Games
7 10 (3.52%) Legal
8 7 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.11%) Military
9 6 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.76%) Automotive
10 5 (1.76%) Retail
11 4 (1.41%) Publishing
12 1 (0.35%) Advertising
12 1 (0.35%) Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 47 (16.55%) Analyst
2 42 (14.79%) Security Manager
3 37 (13.03%) Security Analyst
4 24 (8.45%) Senior
5 22 (7.75%) Consultant
5 22 (7.75%) Information Analyst
5 22 (7.75%) Information Security Analyst
5 22 (7.75%) IT Manager
6 20 (7.04%) Information Security Manager
6 20 (7.04%) IT Support
6 20 (7.04%) Service Manager
7 18 (6.34%) Security Officer
8 17 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (5.63%) Information Manager
10 15 (5.28%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 15 (5.28%) IT Engineer
10 15 (5.28%) Technical Manager
11 14 (4.93%) IT Consultant
12 13 (4.58%) Lead
13 12 (4.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.11%) .NET
1 6 (2.11%) AngularJS
1 6 (2.11%) Express.js
1 6 (2.11%) GraphQL
1 6 (2.11%) gRPC
1 6 (2.11%) Jest
1 6 (2.11%) JWT
1 6 (2.11%) Kafka
1 6 (2.11%) MEAN Stack
1 6 (2.11%) MERN Stack
1 6 (2.11%) ModSecurity
1 6 (2.11%) Mongoose
1 6 (2.11%) NestJS
1 6 (2.11%) Node.js
1 6 (2.11%) OAuth
1 6 (2.11%) OAuth2
1 6 (2.11%) OpenAPI
1 6 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
1 6 (2.11%) React
2 2 (0.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.86%) Management Information System
2 15 (5.28%) Data Protection Act
2 15 (5.28%) Driving Licence
2 15 (5.28%) IoT
3 13 (4.58%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (4.58%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.58%) Video Conferencing
4 12 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.87%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.82%) Replication
7 6 (2.11%) Freedom of Information
7 6 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.11%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (2.11%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.76%) NHS
9 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.06%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 70 (24.65%) Windows
2 34 (11.97%) Windows Server
3 15 (5.28%) Apple iOS
3 15 (5.28%) Mac OS
4 14 (4.93%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.23%) Android
6 9 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.46%) Linux
8 3 (1.06%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (54.23%) Cybersecurity
2 119 (41.90%) Information Security
3 66 (23.24%) ITIL
4 58 (20.42%) Data Protection
5 48 (16.90%) Business Continuity
5 48 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (15.14%) SIEM
7 42 (14.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 30 (10.56%) Risk Management
9 29 (10.21%) Penetration Testing
10 28 (9.86%) ISMS
11 26 (9.15%) Security Management
12 25 (8.80%) Disaster Recovery
12 25 (8.80%) Incident Management
13 23 (8.10%) Security Operations
14 22 (7.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (7.75%) Risk Assessment
15 21 (7.39%) Incident Response
15 21 (7.39%) Vulnerability Scanning
16 18 (6.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.23%) Bash
2 8 (2.82%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.46%) Java
4 6 (2.11%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.11%) Kotlin
4 6 (2.11%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.41%) Python
5 4 (1.41%) SQL
6 2 (0.70%) Go
7 1 (0.35%) C#
7 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 55 (19.37%) CISSP
2 52 (18.31%) CISM
3 32 (11.27%) CISA
4 24 (8.45%) Degree
5 21 (7.39%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (6.69%) Azure Certification
7 18 (6.34%) CCNA
7 18 (6.34%) CCNP
7 18 (6.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 18 (6.34%) Security Cleared
8 12 (4.23%) SC Cleared
9 11 (3.87%) PMI Certification
9 11 (3.87%) PMP
10 10 (3.52%) CRISC
11 7 (2.46%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (1.76%) CEH
13 5 (1.76%) ISACA
14 4 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.41%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (61.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 73 (25.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 51 (17.96%) NIST
4 45 (15.85%) GDPR
5 33 (11.62%) GRC
6 28 (9.86%) PCI DSS
7 24 (8.45%) SOC 2
8 20 (7.04%) NCSC
9 19 (6.69%) SLA
10 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.41%) COBIT
10 4 (1.41%) ISO 9001
10 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (1.06%) QA
12 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 57 (20.07%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.99%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.82%) Docker
5 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.70%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.35%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 48 (16.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (6.69%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (2.82%) FortiGate
3 8 (2.82%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.46%) PaperCut
5 6 (2.11%) Grafana
5 6 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.76%) SCCM
7 4 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.06%) Terraform
9 2 (0.70%) CASB
9 2 (0.70%) Nessus
9 2 (0.70%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.35%) Ansible
10 1 (0.35%) QRadar
10 1 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 106 (37.32%) Microsoft
2 40 (14.08%) Cisco
3 29 (10.21%) Fortinet
4 24 (8.45%) VMware
5 17 (5.99%) Apple
6 13 (4.58%) Darktrace
7 12 (4.23%) Veeam
8 11 (3.87%) Google
9 8 (2.82%) HP
9 8 (2.82%) NEC
10 7 (2.46%) BT
10 7 (2.46%) Canon
11 5 (1.76%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.41%) Aruba
12 4 (1.41%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.41%) Barracuda Networks
12 4 (1.41%) Intel
12 4 (1.41%) Sophos
13 3 (1.06%) Juniper
13 3 (1.06%) Sage