The first table below looks at the demand for Risk Assessment skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Risk Assessment over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Hertfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Risk Assessment
Rank 57 68 66
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -2
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 2 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.306% 0.415% 0.236%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.429% 0.630% 0.377%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £450 - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £365 £350
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £22.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+31.81% -32.30%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
466 635 530
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.25% 65.94% 62.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 291 228
Average daily rate £401 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.80% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 54 79
Average hourly rate £21.50 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.84% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £11.95 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Risk Assessment
East of England

Risk Assessment
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Risk Assessment across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Hertfordshire Risk Assessment Jobs Demand Trend

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Risk Assessment across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Risk Assessment Daily Rate Trend

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Risk Assessment across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Risk Assessment Hourly Rate Trend

Risk Assessment
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Risk Assessment also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Risk Assessment.

1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall

Risk Assessment
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Risk Assessment also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Risk Assessment. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft