Cyber Resilience Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cyber Resilience
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 355 404
Rank change year-on-year +37 +49 +78
Contract jobs citing Cyber Resilience 21 44 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.25% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 33 22
10th Percentile £331 £463 £423
25th Percentile £358 £560 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +23.81% -17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £613
90th Percentile £565 £745 £696
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
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Cyber Resilience
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Resilience in the UK excluding London

Cyber Resilience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Resilience in the UK excluding London

Cyber Resilience
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Resilience in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Resilience in the UK excluding London

Cyber Resilience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Resilience in the UK excluding London

Cyber Resilience
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 Cyber Resilience within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Midlands +25 8 £525 -2.33% 9
West Midlands +22 8 £525 +10.53% 6
Scotland +4 7 £363 -43.14% 7
South East +46 2 £275 -62.71% 12
South West +33 2 - - 4
North of England +13 2 £400 -29.82% 13
North West +4 2 £400 -29.82% 4
Cyber Resilience
UK

Cyber Resilience
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 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (14.29%) Yammer
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.76%) IaaS
2 1 (4.76%) PaaS
2 1 (4.76%) SaaS
2 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (9.52%) LTE
3 1 (4.76%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) FTP
3 1 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Mockito
1 1 (4.76%) Toad
General
1 15 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Local Government
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Analyst
2 9 (42.86%) Change Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Business Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Business Change Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Chief Architect
5 2 (9.52%) IT Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Business Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Business Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Information Officer
6 1 (4.76%) Information Security Officer
6 1 (4.76%) Integration Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Security Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Security Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Product Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Security Officer
6 1 (4.76%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Camel
1 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
1 1 (4.76%) JWT
1 1 (4.76%) OAuth
1 1 (4.76%) OpenID
1 1 (4.76%) REST
1 1 (4.76%) SAML
1 1 (4.76%) Spring
1 1 (4.76%) Spring Batch
1 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Operational Technology
2 3 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (52.38%) Change Management
3 8 (38.10%) Business Analysis
3 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) Logistics
4 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
5 4 (19.05%) Business Change Management
5 4 (19.05%) Business Process Modelling
5 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
5 4 (19.05%) Impact Analysis
5 4 (19.05%) Programme Governance
5 4 (19.05%) Test Scripting
5 4 (19.05%) Waterfall
6 3 (14.29%) Change Control
6 3 (14.29%) Data Analysis
6 3 (14.29%) Infographics
6 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
7 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Java
1 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) APMG
2 2 (9.52%) CISSP
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) CEH
3 1 (4.76%) CESG Certified Professional
3 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
1 2 (9.52%) NCSC
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.76%) Okta
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Talend