Cyber Resilience Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cyber Resilience
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 114 122 145
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 +50
Contract jobs citing Cyber Resilience 4 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.16% 0.27%
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 -
Central London median daily rate £725 £623 £700
% change year-on-year +16.47% -11.07% +12.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,622 1,935 2,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.41% 91.97% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,089 1,205 1,825
10th Percentile £325 £365 £363
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £792 £808
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £589
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.34% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £15.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.09 £21.63 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +13.60% -26.90%
75th Percentile £39.88 £97.38 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -34.52%

Cyber Resilience
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Cyber Resilience job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cyber Resilience
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cyber Resilience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cyber Resilience

Cyber Resilience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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