Cyber Resilience Contracts

Cyber Resilience
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cyber Resilience skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Resilience over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 579 774
Rank change year-on-year +66 +195 -89
Contract jobs citing Cyber Resilience 63 109 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.19% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.22% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 65 62
10th Percentile £463 £463 £538
25th Percentile £560 £513 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £625 £648
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -3.62% +5.44%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £768
90th Percentile £921 £813 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £525 £670
% change year-on-year +19.05% -21.64% +30.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - £65.03 £56.04
25th Percentile - - £60.27
Median hourly rate - £72.98 £68.58
Median % change year-on-year - +6.42% -
75th Percentile - £86.25 £70.46
90th Percentile - £88.50 £70.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £72.98 £68.58
% change year-on-year - +6.42% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cyber Resilience is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Cyber Resilience
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Resilience in the UK

Cyber Resilience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cyber Resilience in the UK

Cyber Resilience
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Resilience over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Resilience in the UK

Cyber Resilience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cyber Resilience in the UK

Cyber Resilience
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 May 2024. 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
England +71 48 £640 -5.19% 25
UK excluding London +53 34 £625 +19.05% 20
London +62 25 £630 -6.67% 12
Work from Home +80 15 £663 +10.37% 10
Scotland +25 12 £550 +10.00% 3
South West +14 11 £700 +17.65% 1
North of England +35 8 £570 -0.87% 3
North West +30 8 £570 - 1
South East +15 2 £738 +5.36% 10
Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 1

Cyber Resilience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.87%) Azure
2 5 (7.94%) AWS
3 2 (3.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) Firewall
2 3 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (3.17%) Network Security
4 1 (1.59%) Internet
4 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Git
1 1 (1.59%) GitLab
1 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 13 (20.63%) Finance
2 11 (17.46%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.35%) Financial Institution
4 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.76%) Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (39.68%) Analyst
2 20 (31.75%) Architect
3 10 (15.87%) SOC Analyst
3 10 (15.87%) Technical Architect
4 9 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Test Analyst
6 5 (7.94%) Change Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Head of Security
6 5 (7.94%) IT Change Manager
6 5 (7.94%) IT Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Security Architect
6 5 (7.94%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (7.94%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 4 (6.35%) Security Manager
8 3 (4.76%) Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Senior
9 2 (3.17%) Administrator
9 2 (3.17%) IT Administrator
9 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) Security Operations Centre
2 12 (19.05%) Management Information System
3 9 (14.29%) CSOC
4 6 (9.52%) Operational Technology
5 5 (7.94%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.76%) SCADA
7 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Linux
3 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (73.02%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (49.21%) Use Case
3 24 (38.10%) Roadmaps
4 22 (34.92%) Business Continuity
4 22 (34.92%) Data Protection
4 22 (34.92%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (33.33%) Information Security
5 21 (33.33%) IT Strategy
6 20 (31.75%) Business Strategy
6 20 (31.75%) Strategic Roadmap
6 20 (31.75%) Validation
7 18 (28.57%) Security Operations
8 15 (23.81%) Incident Response
9 12 (19.05%) Agile
10 10 (15.87%) ITIL
11 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 9 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
11 9 (14.29%) Waterfall
12 8 (12.70%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.59%) C
2 1 (1.59%) C++
2 1 (1.59%) Go
2 1 (1.59%) Java
2 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.59%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) CISM
3 4 (6.35%) CISSP
4 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.17%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (3.17%) CLAS
5 2 (3.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (47.62%) NIST
2 13 (20.63%) NCSC
3 9 (14.29%) GDPR
4 8 (12.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (7.94%) GRC
6 2 (3.17%) JSP 440
6 2 (3.17%) RMADS
7 1 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (6.35%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.17%) AlienVault
2 2 (3.17%) ArcSight
2 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.17%) Splunk
3 1 (1.59%) Cadence
3 1 (1.59%) Cisco
3 1 (1.59%) Meraki
3 1 (1.59%) Planview