Risk Assessment Contracts

Risk Assessment
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 449 545
Rank change year-on-year +105 +96 -73
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 268 285 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.53% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 174 192
10th Percentile £363 £454 £386
25th Percentile £456 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £708 £642
90th Percentile £796 £784 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -9.68% +5.68% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 10
10th Percentile - £45.07 £46.16
25th Percentile - £59.73 £48.86
Median hourly rate £14.54 £70.50 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -79.38% +18.49% -7.75%
75th Percentile £31.87 £72.98 £69.12
90th Percentile £53.93 £73.23 £71.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.54 £72.40 £59.50
% change year-on-year -79.92% +21.67% -7.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Assessment over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +103 225 £575 -8.00% 307
UK excluding London +63 122 £525 -9.68% 219
London +97 118 £625 -3.85% 112
Work from Home +117 98 £575 -4.25% 86
South East +18 42 £540 -19.40% 56
South West +25 29 £425 -34.62% 32
Scotland +40 23 £575 +27.78% 25
North of England +37 20 £450 -20.00% 49
North West +23 15 £450 -25.77% 32
Midlands +16 5 £450 -7.22% 35
West Midlands +22 4 £483 -0.52% 26
North East - 3 £575 - 2
Yorkshire +14 2 £1,000 +81.82% 15
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East of England +13 1 £575 +12.20% 24
East Midlands - 1 £350 - 8
Wales - 1 £450 - 4

Risk Assessment
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 5 (1.87%) Confluence
2 4 (1.49%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.49%) nginx
3 1 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 16 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.87%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.37%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.31%) Azure
2 24 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (5.60%) AWS
4 14 (5.22%) GCP
5 7 (2.61%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.49%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.12%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.12%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.12%) SaaS
10 2 (0.75%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.75%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.75%) Rekognition
10 2 (0.75%) Serverless
10 2 (0.75%) Textract
11 1 (0.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.82%) Firewall
2 22 (8.21%) Network Security
3 13 (4.85%) WAN
4 12 (4.48%) SD-WAN
5 6 (2.24%) DNS
5 6 (2.24%) IPsec
5 6 (2.24%) SNMP
6 5 (1.87%) MPLS
7 4 (1.49%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.49%) PBX
7 4 (1.49%) PSTN
7 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.49%) VoIP
7 4 (1.49%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.12%) LTE
8 3 (1.12%) SSL
8 3 (1.12%) Wireless
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.75%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.49%) Couchbase
1 4 (1.49%) MySQL
1 4 (1.49%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.12%) Power BI
3 2 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.37%) Big Data
4 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.37%) IDMS
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.61%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) ClearCase
2 1 (0.37%) ClearQuest
2 1 (0.37%) Git
2 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.37%) RStudio
General
1 73 (27.24%) Finance
2 59 (22.01%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (11.57%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.33%) Telecoms
5 14 (5.22%) Banking
6 13 (4.85%) Legal
7 11 (4.10%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.36%) Local Government
9 6 (2.24%) Electronics
10 5 (1.87%) Marketing
10 5 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.87%) Police
11 4 (1.49%) Advertising
11 4 (1.49%) Automotive
11 4 (1.49%) Fire and Rescue
11 4 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.12%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 38 (14.18%) Analyst
2 36 (13.43%) Architect
3 29 (10.82%) Project Manager
4 27 (10.07%) Security Architect
5 22 (8.21%) Consultant
6 20 (7.46%) Senior
7 17 (6.34%) Security Consultant
8 13 (4.85%) Business Analyst
8 13 (4.85%) Lead
9 12 (4.48%) Risk Analyst
9 12 (4.48%) Security Engineer
10 11 (4.10%) Developer
10 11 (4.10%) Security Specialist
11 10 (3.73%) Security Analyst
12 9 (3.36%) IT Manager
12 9 (3.36%) Risk Manager
13 8 (2.99%) Microsoft 365 Architect
14 7 (2.61%) Change Manager
14 7 (2.61%) Java Developer
14 7 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.61%) GWT
1 7 (2.61%) JAX-RS
1 7 (2.61%) REST
1 7 (2.61%) Restlet
1 7 (2.61%) SAML
1 7 (2.61%) Spring
1 7 (2.61%) Spring Boot
2 4 (1.49%) JSON
2 4 (1.49%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.49%) YAML
3 2 (0.75%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.75%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.37%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.57%) Management Information System
2 22 (8.21%) PKI
3 10 (3.73%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (3.36%) Operational Technology
5 7 (2.61%) Insider Threat
5 7 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.24%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.24%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.87%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.49%) Industry 4.0
8 4 (1.49%) IoT
8 4 (1.49%) Robotics
8 4 (1.49%) SCADA
8 4 (1.49%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.75%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.36%) Linux
2 5 (1.87%) Windows
3 4 (1.49%) CentOS
4 3 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (26.49%) Cybersecurity
2 64 (23.88%) Risk Management
3 58 (21.64%) Information Security
4 42 (15.67%) Agile
5 40 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (13.43%) Cloud Security
7 32 (11.94%) Change Management
8 28 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (10.07%) Decision-Making
9 27 (10.07%) Security Architecture
10 26 (9.70%) Project Management
11 23 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (8.58%) Security Management
12 22 (8.21%) Information Security Management
12 22 (8.21%) Penetration Testing
13 21 (7.84%) Identity Access Management
14 19 (7.09%) Collaborative Working
15 17 (6.34%) Information Assurance
15 17 (6.34%) Migration
15 17 (6.34%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.85%) Java
2 8 (2.99%) Python
3 5 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (1.49%) PHP
4 4 (1.49%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.12%) C#
6 2 (0.75%) C++
6 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.37%) C
7 1 (0.37%) Go
7 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (19.78%) Degree
2 39 (14.55%) CISSP
3 36 (13.43%) Security Cleared
4 31 (11.57%) CISM
5 25 (9.33%) SC Cleared
6 16 (5.97%) CRISC
7 15 (5.60%) CISA
8 11 (4.10%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.36%) PMP
10 8 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (2.99%) CREST Certified
10 8 (2.99%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (2.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 7 (2.61%) PMI Certification
12 6 (2.24%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.24%) SANS
13 5 (1.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (19.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (14.55%) NIST
3 21 (7.84%) NCSC
4 18 (6.72%) QA
5 12 (4.48%) GDPR
6 10 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 7 (2.61%) Data Quality
8 6 (2.24%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.87%) COBIT
9 5 (1.87%) GRC
9 5 (1.87%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.87%) ISO 31000
10 3 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (1.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.12%) JSP 440
10 3 (1.12%) PMO
10 3 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.75%) RMADS
System Software
1 7 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.12%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.87%) Terraform
4 4 (1.49%) Ansible
4 4 (1.49%) Functional Safety
4 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.12%) SCCM
6 2 (0.75%) Grafana
6 2 (0.75%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.37%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.37%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 44 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.48%) Google
3 11 (4.10%) SAP
4 10 (3.73%) BT
5 4 (1.49%) Ariba
5 4 (1.49%) Qualys
6 3 (1.12%) Rapid7
7 2 (0.75%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.75%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.75%) Cisco
7 2 (0.75%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.75%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.75%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.75%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.75%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.37%) Concur
8 1 (0.37%) Juniper
8 1 (0.37%) Remedy
8 1 (0.37%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.37%) Sparx