Attestation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Attestation
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 375 414
Rank change year-on-year +18 +39 +90
Contract jobs citing Attestation 17 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.005% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.007% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 5
10th Percentile £419 - £410
25th Percentile £459 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -28.57% +54.87%
75th Percentile £772 - £725
90th Percentile £1,073 - -
UK median daily rate £663 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +20.45% -15.38% +21.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £34.31
25th Percentile - - £36.28
Median hourly rate - - £39.55
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £36.28
% change year-on-year - - -2.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Attestation 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,799 15,124 19,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.31% 83.07% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,279 9,091 12,946
10th Percentile £240 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,370 1,541 1,187
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.65 £17.36
Median hourly rate £22.92 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.07% +13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £44.95 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.04
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -1.35% +56.60%

Attestation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Attestation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Attestation in the UK excluding London

Attestation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Attestation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Attestation in the UK excluding London

Attestation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Attestation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Attestation in the UK excluding London

Attestation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Attestation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Attestation in the UK excluding London

Attestation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Attestation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 11 £650 - 4
North of England - 11 £650 - 4
West Midlands 0 3 £1,234 +146.70%
Midlands -5 3 £1,234 +146.70%
South East - 2 £450 - 1
Scotland - 1 £410 - 3
Attestation
UK

Attestation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Confluence
1 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Network Security
1 4 (23.53%) SSH
2 3 (17.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Security Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Security Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 4 (23.53%) Cyberattack
2 4 (23.53%) Tandem
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (41.18%) Data Security
2 7 (41.18%) Project Delivery
3 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Project Management
4 5 (29.41%) Security Architecture
4 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (23.53%) Application Security
5 4 (23.53%) Change Management
5 4 (23.53%) Cryptography
5 4 (23.53%) Customer Experience
5 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
5 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
5 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
5 4 (23.53%) Information Security
5 4 (23.53%) ITIL
5 4 (23.53%) Key Management
5 4 (23.53%) Service Management
5 4 (23.53%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) PCI QSA
3 4 (23.53%) CISA
3 4 (23.53%) CISM
3 4 (23.53%) CISSP
3 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (23.53%) GIAC
4 3 (17.65%) CEH
4 3 (17.65%) CRISC
4 3 (17.65%) OSCP
5 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) PCI DSS
2 4 (23.53%) QA
3 2 (11.76%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) IBM
3 2 (11.76%) Dell