Cyber Essentials Jobs in the City of London

Cyber Essentials
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 161 207
Rank change year-on-year +39 +46 +75
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 14 15 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.71% 0.45% 0.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.40% 3.65% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 16
10th Percentile £42,250 - £42,222
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £74,500 £78,125
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +12.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of 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 permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 318 411 677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 16.20% 12.41% 15.06%
Number of salaries quoted 225 330 585
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £44,700
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% -7.59% +7.41%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £109,500 £105,000 £102,500
Central London median annual salary £63,500 £67,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% -4.29% +3.70%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in the City of London

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the City of London.

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in the City of London

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in the City of London

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (21.43%) Fivetran
2 3 (21.43%) Google Analytics
2 3 (21.43%) Power Automate
2 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 3 (21.43%) Snowflake
2 3 (21.43%) Zapier
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) OCI
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) ShareGate
3 1 (7.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Metadata
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Data Manager
1 3 (21.43%) IT Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Security Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Systems Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Information Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Security Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Operational Security Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Operations Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Management Information System
2 3 (21.43%) Social Media
3 2 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (42.86%) Information Security
3 4 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 4 (28.57%) SIEM
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Asset Management
4 3 (21.43%) CRM
4 3 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (21.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
4 3 (21.43%) ETL
4 3 (21.43%) Generative AI
4 3 (21.43%) Information Security Governance
4 3 (21.43%) Knowledge Management
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Social Media Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
1 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CISSP
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) CISM
3 2 (14.29%) CRISC
4 1 (7.14%) CCNA
4 1 (7.14%) CCSP
4 1 (7.14%) CISA
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) GDPR
2 5 (35.71%) NIST
3 4 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
4 3 (21.43%) PCI DSS
5 1 (7.14%) GRC
5 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) CASB
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.14%) Nessus
1 1 (7.14%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Salesforce
3 3 (21.43%) Google
3 3 (21.43%) Xero
4 1 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Meraki
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Tenable
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