Resilience Testing Contracts

Resilience Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Resilience Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Resilience Testing 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 507 568 705
Rank change year-on-year +61 +137 +127
Contract jobs citing Resilience Testing 13 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.032% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.037% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 8
10th Percentile £630 £572 £437
25th Percentile £675 £575 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £750 £734 £638
90th Percentile - £766 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £738 -
% change year-on-year -5.08% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Resilience Testing 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Resilience Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Resilience Testing in the UK

Resilience Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Resilience Testing in the UK

Resilience Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Resilience Testing in the UK

Resilience Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Resilience Testing in the UK

Resilience Testing
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Resilience Testing within the UK 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
England +56 11 £725 +20.83% 10
London +35 7 £750 +25.00% 9
UK excluding London +66 5 £700 -5.08% 2
Work from Home +36 3 £675 +12.50% 6
Midlands - 3 £700 -
West Midlands - 3 £700 -
East of England - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

Resilience Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Pulsar
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.69%) Datadog
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Flink
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) InfluxDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) JMeter
1 2 (15.38%) TestDirector
2 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.69%) Gatling
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jaeger
2 1 (7.69%) LoadRunner
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Data Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) QA Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Compliance Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Compliance Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) Loki
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
1 1 (7.69%) Node.js
1 1 (7.69%) NumPy
1 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (7.69%) Pandas
1 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
1 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (7.69%) React
1 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
1 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Migration
1 5 (38.46%) Non-Functional Testing
1 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
3 3 (23.08%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (15.38%) Line Management
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (15.38%) Service Management
4 2 (15.38%) SIEM
4 2 (15.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) Groovy
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Istio
2 1 (7.69%) linkerd
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft