Cyber Resilience Contracts in the South West

Cyber Resilience
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 138 136
Rank change year-on-year +28 -2 +32
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cyber Resilience 4 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.21% 0.14% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.17% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £801 £585 £619
25th Percentile £803 £638 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £813 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £828 £803 £749
90th Percentile £834 £819 £788
England median daily rate £594 £620 £675
% change year-on-year -4.27% -8.15% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £63.70
25th Percentile - - £69.67
Median hourly rate - - £77.74
75th Percentile - - £87.19
90th Percentile - - £88.88
England median hourly rate £32.77 - £77.74
% change year-on-year - - +29.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,705 2,309 2,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.69% 83.33% 87.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 989 1,485 2,069
10th Percentile £216 £263 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
75th Percentile £619 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 260 250
10th Percentile £14.92 £14.35 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.51 £43.75 £40.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.14 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.54% +6.56% +16.67%
75th Percentile £64.06 £72.50 £75.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.94% +50.44%

Cyber Resilience
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Cyber Resilience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Resilience in the South West

Cyber Resilience
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cyber Resilience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cyber Resilience

Cyber Resilience
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cyber Resilience.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cyber Resilience

Cyber Resilience
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +23 2 £813 +8.33%
Bristol +7 2 - - 1
Cyber Resilience
England

Cyber Resilience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) LTE
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Chief Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Information
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Security
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Information Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISA
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) COBIT
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST