Cyber Resilience Contract Job Trends in Central London

Cyber Resilience
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Cyber Resilience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 126 146
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 +59
Contract jobs citing Cyber Resilience 4 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.21% 0.13% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.14% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £705 £610 £610
25th Percentile £713 £611 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £623 £700
Median % change year-on-year +16.47% -11.07% +12.45%
75th Percentile £738 £636 £850
90th Percentile £745 £637 -
London median daily rate £650 £626 £638
% change year-on-year +3.83% -1.80% +0.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Cyber Resilience falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,787 2,144 2,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.90% 92.10% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 1,368 1,966
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £589
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.34% +2.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £774 £788 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 29 17
10th Percentile £17.79 £18.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £25.40 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -34.52%
75th Percentile £36.00 £61.25 £46.75
90th Percentile £60.95 £117.10 £59.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £38.71
% change year-on-year -18.14% -5.32% +7.53%

Cyber Resilience
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Resilience relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Cyber Resilience job vacancy trend in Central London

Cyber Resilience
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cyber Resilience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cyber Resilience

Cyber Resilience
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Resilience within the Central London region over the 6 months to 6 October 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +8 4 £725 +16.47% 7
Cyber Resilience
London

Cyber Resilience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Principal Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (25.00%) SABSA
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Tenable