Cyber Assurance Contracts in England

Cyber Assurance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cyber Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 534 606
Rank change year-on-year +37 +72 +172
Contract jobs citing Cyber Assurance 10 7 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.019% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.022% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 27
10th Percentile £583 £463 £500
25th Percentile £600 £488 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £601
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.25% +4.43%
75th Percentile £875 £588 £650
90th Percentile £903 £644 £730
UK median daily rate £700 £575 £619
% change year-on-year +21.74% -7.07% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cyber Assurance 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24,651 31,309 42,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.65% 85.64% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,798 20,359 30,046
10th Percentile £300 £308 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £669
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 2,212 1,521
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.25 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%
75th Percentile £54.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.70 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +50.94%

Cyber Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cyber Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Assurance in England

Cyber Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cyber Assurance in England.

Daily rate trend for Cyber Assurance in England

Cyber Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Assurance in England over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Assurance in England

Cyber Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cyber Assurance in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Assurance in England

Cyber Assurance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Assurance within the England region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
London +44 7 £850 +47.83% 4
South West - 2 £600 - 3
Cyber Assurance
UK

Cyber Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Scylla
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Software Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Information Assurance Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 5 (50.00%) Domain Models
1 5 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 5 (50.00%) Information Security
1 5 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 5 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 5 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 4 (40.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (20.00%) Application Security
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Data Security
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Security Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) GRC
2 2 (20.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft