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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 538 647
Rank change year-on-year -6 +109 +171
Contract jobs citing Resilience Testing 9 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.026% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.030% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 9
10th Percentile £525 £443 -
25th Percentile £553 £489 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £597 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% +5.58% +2.73%
75th Percentile £675 £708 -
90th Percentile £819 £766 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £738 -
% change year-on-year -15.25% - -

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 29,828 33,271 46,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 85.47% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,585 21,269 32,050
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,712 1,831 1,512
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.43 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.33
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -1.95% +59.73%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.87 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%

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 14 August 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 9 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 14 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
England +12 7 £588 -12.05% 9
UK excluding London +11 5 £625 -15.25% 2
London +18 3 £588 -1.51% 7
East of England - 2 £525 - 1
South East +23 1 £875 +18.64%
Work from Home +13 1 £600 +14.29% 3
Scotland - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £700 -
Midlands - 1 £700 -

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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Pulsar
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (11.11%) Datadog
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Flink
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) InfluxDB
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jaeger
1 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Resilience Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Resilience Test Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Loki
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) NumPy
1 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (11.11%) Pandas
1 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
1 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) scikit-learn
1 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Agile
1 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
1 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
1 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 2 (22.22%) ITIL
1 2 (22.22%) Line Management
1 2 (22.22%) Release Management
1 2 (22.22%) Service Management
2 1 (11.11%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity Management
2 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (11.11%) Data Privacy
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) GRC
2 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Istio
2 1 (11.11%) linkerd
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk