Cyber Resilience Contracts in England

Cyber Resilience
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cyber Resilience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Resilience over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 484 586
Rank change year-on-year +25 +102 +145
Contract jobs citing Cyber Resilience 26 58 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 44 47
10th Percentile £400 £533 £513
25th Percentile £494 £560 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £640 £675
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% -5.19% +3.85%
75th Percentile £669 £734 £794
90th Percentile £860 £936 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £640 £638
% change year-on-year -17.97% +0.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £65.03
25th Percentile £68.26 - -
Median hourly rate £73.31 - £72.98
75th Percentile £78.36 - £86.25
90th Percentile - - £88.50
UK median hourly rate £73.31 - £72.98
% change year-on-year - - +32.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Cyber Resilience
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Resilience in England

Cyber Resilience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Resilience in England

Cyber Resilience
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Resilience in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Resilience in England

Cyber Resilience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Resilience in England

Cyber Resilience
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 Resilience within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +20 9 £700 +11.11% 60
Midlands +28 8 £525 -2.33% 25
West Midlands +21 8 £525 +10.53% 15
South East +46 2 £275 -62.71% 29
South West +36 2 - - 15
North of England +9 2 £400 -29.82% 30
North West +7 2 £400 -29.82% 11
Cyber Resilience
UK

Cyber Resilience
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.85%) AWS
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
1 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
1 1 (3.85%) IaaS
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (3.85%) PaaS
1 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Firewall
2 4 (15.38%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (7.69%) LTE
4 1 (3.85%) NAS
4 1 (3.85%) SAN
4 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.85%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Power BI
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Legal
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Local Government
5 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Business Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Change Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Business Change Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Chief Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Risk Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Security Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Alteryx Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Business Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Business Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Operational Technology
2 3 (11.54%) Data Structures
2 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.85%) NHS
4 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (30.77%) Business Analysis
2 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (26.92%) Change Management
3 7 (26.92%) Information Security
3 7 (26.92%) Risk Management
4 6 (23.08%) Security Architecture
5 5 (19.23%) GAP Analysis
5 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
5 5 (19.23%) Zero Trust
6 4 (15.38%) Agile
6 4 (15.38%) Business Change Management
6 4 (15.38%) Business Process Modelling
6 4 (15.38%) Business Strategy
6 4 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (15.38%) Cyber Assurance
6 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 4 (15.38%) Domain Models
6 4 (15.38%) Impact Analysis
6 4 (15.38%) Programme Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) CISSP
3 2 (7.69%) APMG
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) CEH
4 1 (3.85%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (3.85%) CISM
4 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) NIST
2 5 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (7.69%) GDPR
3 2 (7.69%) NCSC
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (3.85%) EU AI Act
4 1 (3.85%) GRC
4 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Dell
1 2 (7.69%) EMC
1 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
2 1 (3.85%) Alteryx
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco
2 1 (3.85%) F5
2 1 (3.85%) Hitachi
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.85%) SonicWALL
2 1 (3.85%) Tenable
2 1 (3.85%) VMware
2 1 (3.85%) Zscaler