Risk Assessment Contracts in England

Risk Assessment
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Risk Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Risk Assessment over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 398 531
Rank change year-on-year +64 +133 -75
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 228 253 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.52% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.57% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 152 138
10th Percentile £325 £480 £348
25th Percentile £441 £550 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £736 £725 £638
90th Percentile £800 £788 £721
UK median daily rate £575 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 7
10th Percentile - £41.40 £50.89
25th Percentile - £59.73 £56.11
Median hourly rate £14.54 £68.27 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -78.70% +4.23% +0.77%
75th Percentile £31.87 £72.98 £70.46
90th Percentile £53.93 £73.29 £73.65
UK median hourly rate £14.54 £70.50 £64.25
% change year-on-year -79.38% +9.73% -0.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Risk Assessment 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,870 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,878 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.90 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Risk Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in England

Risk Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment in England.

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in England

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in England

Risk Assessment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment in England.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in England

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Assessment in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Assessment in England

Risk Assessment
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Assessment within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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
London +96 122 £625 -3.85% 125
South East +4 43 £540 -17.87% 54
South West +24 31 £300 -52.00% 27
North of England +31 19 £450 -21.74% 65
North West +29 14 £344 -43.88% 42
Midlands +24 3 £425 -13.27% 31
North East - 3 £575 - 7
Yorkshire +21 2 £1,000 +81.82% 16
West Midlands +18 2 £438 -10.71% 21
East of England 0 2 £575 +12.20% 25
East Midlands - 1 £350 - 10
Risk Assessment
UK

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (2.19%) Confluence
2 4 (1.75%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.75%) nginx
3 1 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 14 (6.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.19%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.44%) SAP EHS
1 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.09%) Azure
2 17 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (5.70%) AWS
3 13 (5.70%) GCP
4 6 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (1.75%) Entra ID
5 4 (1.75%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.32%) SaaS
7 2 (0.88%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (0.88%) Google App Engine
7 2 (0.88%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (0.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (0.88%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.44%) SAP Fieldglass
8 1 (0.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.77%) Firewall
2 19 (8.33%) Network Security
3 13 (5.70%) WAN
4 12 (5.26%) SD-WAN
5 8 (3.51%) MPLS
6 6 (2.63%) DNS
6 6 (2.63%) IPsec
6 6 (2.63%) SNMP
7 4 (1.75%) BGP
7 4 (1.75%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.75%) PBX
7 4 (1.75%) PSTN
7 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.75%) VoIP
7 4 (1.75%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.32%) Wireless
9 2 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.88%) LTE
9 2 (0.88%) OSPF
9 2 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.75%) Couchbase
1 4 (1.75%) MySQL
1 4 (1.75%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.75%) Power BI
2 3 (1.32%) Data Vault
3 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.44%) Big Data
4 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.44%) IDMS
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.95%) JIRA
2 1 (0.44%) ClearCase
2 1 (0.44%) ClearQuest
2 1 (0.44%) Git
2 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.44%) RStudio
General
1 66 (28.95%) Finance
2 43 (18.86%) Social Skills
3 28 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.09%) Telecoms
5 17 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.02%) Banking
7 12 (5.26%) Legal
8 9 (3.95%) Local Government
9 8 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.63%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.19%) Police
12 4 (1.75%) Advertising
12 4 (1.75%) Fire and Rescue
12 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.32%) Back Office
13 3 (1.32%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (1.32%) Marketing
13 3 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.32%) Retail
14 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (15.79%) Architect
2 33 (14.47%) Analyst
3 27 (11.84%) Security Architect
4 25 (10.96%) Project Manager
5 21 (9.21%) Senior
6 17 (7.46%) Consultant
7 14 (6.14%) Security Consultant
8 11 (4.82%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.39%) Risk Analyst
9 10 (4.39%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.51%) Lead
10 8 (3.51%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 7 (3.07%) Developer
11 7 (3.07%) Risk Manager
11 7 (3.07%) Security Analyst
12 6 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
12 6 (2.63%) Domain Architect
12 6 (2.63%) Security Specialist
12 6 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (2.63%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.19%) GWT
1 5 (2.19%) JAX-RS
1 5 (2.19%) REST
1 5 (2.19%) Restlet
1 5 (2.19%) SAML
1 5 (2.19%) Spring
1 5 (2.19%) Spring Boot
2 4 (1.75%) JSON
2 4 (1.75%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.75%) YAML
3 2 (0.88%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.44%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.09%) Management Information System
2 19 (8.33%) PKI
3 8 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.19%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.19%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.19%) Insider Threat
5 5 (2.19%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.75%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (1.75%) IoT
6 4 (1.75%) Robotics
7 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.32%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.32%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.88%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.19%) Linux
2 4 (1.75%) CentOS
3 2 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.12%) Cybersecurity
2 54 (23.68%) Risk Management
3 43 (18.86%) Information Security
4 34 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (14.47%) Agile
6 31 (13.60%) Cloud Security
7 24 (10.53%) Security Architecture
7 24 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (10.09%) Decision-Making
9 22 (9.65%) Identity Access Management
10 21 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (9.21%) Project Management
11 20 (8.77%) Change Management
12 19 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (8.33%) Migration
13 18 (7.89%) Information Security Management
13 18 (7.89%) Penetration Testing
13 18 (7.89%) Security Management
14 16 (7.02%) Information Assurance
14 16 (7.02%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.39%) Java
2 7 (3.07%) Python
3 5 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (1.75%) PHP
5 3 (1.32%) C#
5 3 (1.32%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.88%) C++
6 2 (0.88%) Go
7 1 (0.44%) C
7 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (15.79%) Degree
2 30 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 29 (12.72%) CISSP
4 25 (10.96%) CISM
5 22 (9.65%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.39%) CISA
6 10 (4.39%) CRISC
7 9 (3.95%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.51%) CREST Certified
8 8 (3.51%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.63%) SANS
10 5 (2.19%) PMP
11 4 (1.75%) CEH
11 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.32%) FFIEC
12 3 (1.32%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.88%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (20.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (14.47%) NIST
3 20 (8.77%) NCSC
4 15 (6.58%) QA
5 10 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 8 (3.51%) GDPR
7 5 (2.19%) COBIT
7 5 (2.19%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.75%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.75%) ISO 31000
9 3 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.32%) GRC
9 3 (1.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (1.32%) JSP 440
9 3 (1.32%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.88%) PMO
10 2 (0.88%) RMADS
11 1 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (2.19%) Terraform
3 4 (1.75%) Ansible
3 4 (1.75%) Functional Safety
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.32%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (0.88%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 39 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.82%) Google
3 10 (4.39%) BT
4 6 (2.63%) SAP
5 4 (1.75%) Bloomberg
5 4 (1.75%) Juniper
5 4 (1.75%) Qualys
5 4 (1.75%) Refinitiv
6 3 (1.32%) Rapid7
7 2 (0.88%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.88%) Cisco
7 2 (0.88%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.88%) Remedy
7 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.88%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.88%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.44%) EMC
8 1 (0.44%) HP
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle
8 1 (0.44%) VMware