The first table below looks at the demand for Risk Assessment skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Risk Assessment over the 3 months to 23 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.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Risk Assessment
Rank 358 360 401
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +41
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 191 216 193
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.412% 0.370% 0.311%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.581% 0.546% 0.460%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 127 128
Average daily rate £450 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £342 £316
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £536
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £365 £350
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
Average hourly rate £29.00 £22.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.81% -32.30%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £22.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+31.81% -32.30%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32894 39591 41969
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.99% 67.83% 67.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19661 22733 23826
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 1284 1487
Average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.68 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%

Risk Assessment
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Risk Assessment Daily Rate Trend

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Risk Assessment within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Risk Assessment Daily Rate Histogram

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Risk Assessment Hourly Rate Trend

Risk Assessment
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Assessment within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +18 179 £450 +5.88%
London +30 122 £450 +5.88%
City of London +23 38 £450 +5.88%
South East +15 24 £344 -4.51%
Cheshire +13 10 £360 -
North West +11 10 £360 -4.00%
South West +23 9 £375 -27.88%
Somerset +8 7 - -
Scotland -13 7 £214 -52.50%
Glasgow -20 7 £214 -
Taunton - 7 - -
Chester +2 6 - -
Oxfordshire +13 5 £305 -6.15%
Canary Wharf +1 5 £220 -52.53%
Yorkshire 0 5 £525 +16.66%
Bicester - 5 £305 -
Surrey +17 4 £477 +30.68%
Buckinghamshire +9 4 £345 -
Hampshire +2 4 £338 -
Sheffield - 4 £525 -
South Yorkshire - 4 £525 -
Middlesex +12 3 £394 -20.45%
Berkshire +6 3 - -
East Midlands -12 3 £400 -
Milton Keynes - 3 £310 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 3 £477 -
Slough - 3 - -
East of England +14 2 £450 -
West Midlands +7 2 - -
Hertfordshire +5 2 £450 -

Risk Assessment
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 97 (30.41%) Information Security
2 89 (27.90%) Finance
3 77 (24.14%) Risk Management
4 71 (22.26%) ITIL
5 62 (19.44%) Security Cleared
6 56 (17.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 51 (15.99%) SC Cleared
8 48 (15.05%) Change Management
9 47 (14.73%) Project Management
9 47 (14.73%) CISSP
10 46 (14.42%) Management Information System
11 38 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 36 (11.29%) MS Office
12 36 (11.29%) MS Excel
13 33 (10.34%) PRINCE2
14 32 (10.03%) Information Assurance
15 31 (9.718%) CISM
16 30 (9.404%) MS Visio
17 29 (9.091%) Microsoft
18 28 (8.777%) Banking
19 26 (8.150%) SQL
20 25 (7.837%) Project Planning
20 25 (7.837%) Degree
21 24 (7.524%) Telecoms
22 23 (7.210%) Risk Analysis
23 22 (6.897%) Service Delivery
23 22 (6.897%) Service Management
24 21 (6.583%) IIS
24 21 (6.583%) Retail
25 20 (6.270%) UNIX

Risk Assessment
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

Application Development
1 5 (1.567%) OC4J
1 5 (1.567%) Java EE
2 4 (1.254%) .NET
3 3 (0.940%) ASP.NET
3 3 (0.940%) Web Services
3 3 (0.940%) XML
3 3 (0.940%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.627%) Apache Flex
4 2 (0.627%) HTML5
4 2 (0.627%) Flash
4 2 (0.627%) SOAP
5 1 (0.313%) J2EE
5 1 (0.313%) WML
5 1 (0.313%) HTML
5 1 (0.313%) WAP
5 1 (0.313%) WSDL
5 1 (0.313%) Middleware
5 1 (0.313%) Cocoa
5 1 (0.313%) jQuery
5 1 (0.313%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 21 (6.583%) IIS
2 18 (5.643%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.194%) Apache
4 6 (1.881%) ESB
5 5 (1.567%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 5 (1.567%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.567%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (0.940%) Lync
6 3 (0.940%) MS Project Server
7 2 (0.627%) SAS
8 1 (0.313%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.313%) MS Exchange
8 1 (0.313%) SAP Web AS
8 1 (0.313%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.313%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.313%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 36 (11.29%) MS Office
1 36 (11.29%) MS Excel
2 30 (9.404%) MS Visio
3 13 (4.075%) MS Project
4 7 (2.194%) MS PowerPoint
5 3 (0.940%) Office 365
6 1 (0.313%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.313%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.313%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.313%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.313%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.313%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.329%) TCP/IP
2 13 (4.075%) Internet
3 12 (3.762%) Network Security
4 11 (3.448%) Firewall
5 10 (3.135%) HTTP
6 9 (2.821%) Intranet
7 6 (1.881%) MPLS
7 6 (1.881%) VoIP
8 5 (1.567%) LDAP
8 5 (1.567%) ATM
9 4 (1.254%) VPN
9 4 (1.254%) SDH
10 2 (0.627%) BIG-IP
10 2 (0.627%) Wireless
10 2 (0.627%) DNS
11 1 (0.313%) GPRS
11 1 (0.313%) GSM
11 1 (0.313%) LAN
11 1 (0.313%) SMS
11 1 (0.313%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.762%) Data Mining
2 7 (2.194%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (2.194%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.881%) Oracle 10g
4 5 (1.567%) Oracle Discoverer
4 5 (1.567%) InterSystems Cache
5 4 (1.254%) MS Access
6 3 (0.940%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.627%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 2 (0.627%) OLAP
8 1 (0.313%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.313%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (0.313%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 1 (0.313%) QlikView
8 1 (0.313%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.313%) BODI
8 1 (0.313%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.881%) GitHub
2 5 (1.567%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (1.254%) StarTeam
4 3 (0.940%) TestDirector
5 2 (0.627%) Subversion
5 2 (0.627%) QuickTest Pro
5 2 (0.627%) Ant
6 1 (0.313%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.313%) ERwin
6 1 (0.313%) JMeter
6 1 (0.313%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.313%) Selenium
General
1 89 (27.90%) Finance
2 28 (8.777%) Banking
3 24 (7.524%) Telecoms
4 21 (6.583%) Retail
5 19 (5.956%) Legal
6 11 (3.448%) Games
7 10 (3.135%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.881%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.254%) Advertising
10 3 (0.940%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.940%) Local Government
11 2 (0.627%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.627%) Law
12 1 (0.313%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.313%) Military
12 1 (0.313%) Front Office
12 1 (0.313%) Electronics
12 1 (0.313%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.313%) Automotive
12 1 (0.313%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (23.20%) Consultant
2 60 (18.81%) Security Consultant
3 57 (17.87%) Analyst
4 48 (15.05%) Project Manager
5 32 (10.03%) Risk Consultant
6 27 (8.464%) Business Analyst
7 17 (5.329%) Developer
8 15 (4.702%) Information Security Consultant
9 14 (4.389%) Business Change Analyst
9 14 (4.389%) Change Analyst
10 11 (3.448%) Administrator
10 11 (3.448%) Management Consultant
10 11 (3.448%) Risk Management Consultant
10 11 (3.448%) Security Officer
11 9 (2.821%) IT Consultant
11 9 (2.821%) Business Manager
12 8 (2.508%) Risk Analyst
12 8 (2.508%) Python Developer
12 8 (2.508%) IT Security Officer
13 7 (2.194%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.42%) Management Information System
2 17 (5.329%) CESG
3 14 (4.389%) RMADS
4 13 (4.075%) Computer Science
5 12 (3.762%) SCADA
6 11 (3.448%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.508%) Grid Computing
8 7 (2.194%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.881%) CESG CLAS
10 5 (1.567%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.567%) Data Integration
10 5 (1.567%) SWIFT
11 3 (0.940%) PMI
11 3 (0.940%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.940%) Social Media
11 3 (0.940%) PKI
11 3 (0.940%) Statistics
11 3 (0.940%) Social Network
11 3 (0.940%) e-Health
12 2 (0.627%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.270%) UNIX
1 20 (6.270%) Windows
2 13 (4.075%) Linux
3 6 (1.881%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (1.567%) Solaris
4 5 (1.567%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.627%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.313%) AIX
6 1 (0.313%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.313%) Android
6 1 (0.313%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (30.41%) Information Security
2 77 (24.14%) Risk Management
3 71 (22.26%) ITIL
4 48 (15.05%) Change Management
5 47 (14.73%) Project Management
6 38 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (10.34%) PRINCE2
8 32 (10.03%) Information Assurance
9 25 (7.837%) Project Planning
10 23 (7.210%) Risk Analysis
11 22 (6.897%) Service Delivery
11 22 (6.897%) Service Management
12 17 (5.329%) Penetration Testing
12 17 (5.329%) Change Control
13 16 (5.016%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (5.016%) Security Management
13 16 (5.016%) Migration
13 16 (5.016%) Business Continuity
14 15 (4.702%) Test Strategy
15 14 (4.389%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 26 (8.150%) SQL
2 20 (6.270%) C++
3 18 (5.643%) C
4 16 (5.016%) Java
5 13 (4.075%) C#
6 9 (2.821%) Objective-C
7 8 (2.508%) Python
8 3 (0.940%) VBA
9 2 (0.627%) SAS Macro
9 2 (0.627%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.313%) VB
10 1 (0.313%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.313%) Perl
10 1 (0.313%) PHP
10 1 (0.313%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.313%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.313%) Korn
Qualifications
1 62 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 51 (15.99%) SC Cleared
3 47 (14.73%) CISSP
4 31 (9.718%) CISM
5 25 (7.837%) Degree
6 14 (4.389%) DV Cleared
6 14 (4.389%) CISA
7 8 (2.508%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 7 (2.194%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.194%) PMP
8 7 (2.194%) PMI Certification
8 7 (2.194%) CRISC
9 5 (1.567%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 4 (1.254%) PCI QSA
11 3 (0.940%) ISEB
11 3 (0.940%) MAPM
12 2 (0.627%) ISACA
12 2 (0.627%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.313%) MCP
13 1 (0.313%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (17.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (3.762%) COBIT
3 10 (3.135%) QA
3 10 (3.135%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.567%) BS7799
5 4 (1.254%) SLA
6 3 (0.940%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.940%) BS25999
6 3 (0.940%) Basel III
7 2 (0.627%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.627%) Basel II
8 1 (0.313%) ISO/IEC 17799
8 1 (0.313%) HMG Infosec
8 1 (0.313%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.313%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (1.567%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (1.254%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.313%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.313%) UAG
3 1 (0.313%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 6 (1.881%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (1.254%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (1.254%) OpenView
3 1 (0.313%) SCCM
3 1 (0.313%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (9.091%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.956%) Oracle
3 15 (4.702%) Cisco
4 11 (3.448%) SAP
5 8 (2.508%) Citrix
6 7 (2.194%) HP
6 7 (2.194%) CheckPoint
6 7 (2.194%) Juniper
7 6 (1.881%) Planview
8 5 (1.567%) Nortel
9 4 (1.254%) Alcatel-Lucent
9 4 (1.254%) IBM
10 3 (0.940%) Sonus
10 3 (0.940%) Google
11 2 (0.627%) MobileIron
11 2 (0.627%) F5
11 2 (0.627%) Verint
11 2 (0.627%) BT
11 2 (0.627%) Genesys
11 2 (0.627%) Avaya
City, London
Our Customer is looking for a Consultant Accreditor to support the Security Accreditation team in various activities as part of the formal process of risk assessment and accreditation...
LA International
Rate: £600 - £670 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Security Analyst: Key Skills and Background CISSP or equivelant experience in a large enterprise environment/CISM, CISA Experience in project security risk assessment and compliance checking Risk management...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Ideal candidates must be experienced with performing security reviews and risk assessments, including security architecture reviews and the review of vulnerability scans and penetration test reports... As well...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley
There will be a strong leadership and management responsibility and day to day duties will include writing reports, interfacing with collegues at al levels and risk assessment tasks.....
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £30 per hour
Posted: 21 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands
Familiarity with strengths and weaknesses of recent technologies, to include most or all of: Virtualisation technologies, Microsoft Forefront UAG / TMG, Sharepoint, Cisco UCS, Cloud, firewalls and IPS/IDS.
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Helping map out the merchant journey and merchant segment including risk assessment on communications... Key Responsibilities Support external stakeholder needs analysis and administration of stakeholder distribution lists Liaise...
WorldPay
Posted: 23 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
You will be working for a large banking client in their Supplier Security Team which manages all Information Security Risks posed to the organisation by suppliers and service...
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Rate: £000 - £1 per annum + TBC on discussion
Posted: 1 May 2013
Central London / West End
I am currently looking for an excellent BI delivery manager with full "end to end" project management, including helping and influencing the business at the idea stage in...
Timothy James Consulting Ltd
Rate: £450 - £500 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
As a minimum requirement, successful candidates will have the following: - Operational Risk Methodologies and their implementation - IT governance framework knowledge - COBIT, ITIL - MI analysis and reporting to senior...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Farnham, South East
Responsibilities: Ensure all the aims of the project are met Ensure the quality standards are met Risk assessment Monitoring project resources and third party suppliers to ensure guidelines...
Satigo
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
City, London
Experience Required: General experience Formal training in the following areas: Health and Safety at Work Act Construction Health & Safety, CDM Regulations, Risk Assessment and Method Statements Environmental, Duty...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £32 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013
Preston, Lancashire
Responsibilities. The successful candidate will be required to perform tasks suitable to the internal level of this role.
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £28 - £40 per hour + £NEG
Posted: 21 May 2013
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
Programme LeadSutton Coldfield, BirminghamContract Length: 9 months+Key SKills: Programme, Manage, Lead, Transformation, Supplier, Commercial, Business Change, Prince, MSP, MOD, Defence, Military, ArmyKey responsibilities will include:*Manage the...
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd.
Posted: 22 May 2013
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands (County)
Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham Contract Length: 9 months+ Key SKills: Programme, Manage, Lead, Transformation, Supplier, Commercial, Business Change, Prince, MSP, MOD, Defence, Military, Army Key responsibilities will include: *Manage...
LA International
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Key requirements are: ?Experience of commercial banking market and commercial mortgage products ?Credit analysis and report writing ?Working knowledge of interest rate risk management techniques and relevant products ?...
Aston Carter
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Primary responsibilities include - Assisting Supplier Security team in Glasgow, NY, and India with:- Executing supplier/vendor risk assessments within Service Level Agreement - Generating team reports and metrics- Maintaining...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £180 - £200 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Primary responsibilities include - Assisting Supplier Security team in Glasgow, NY, and India with: - Executing supplier/vendor risk assessments within Service Level Agreement - Generating team reports and metrics - Maintaining...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £180 - £200 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
West Midlands
System Hazard analysis and risk estimation... Competent understanding CAE/FEA & physical test results and undertaking physical test procedures... Ability to understand risks, undertake and develop risk assessment protocols...
Experis Engineering
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Commercial banking, corporate banking, relationship manager, report writing, credit analysis, risk assessments, loan documentation, portfolio management, commercial mortgage products... The ideal candidate will come from a commercial/corporate...
Aston Carter
Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Forfar, Angus
We are looking for a time served technician who has experience of maintaining and calibrating instrumentation which is located in a potentially hazardous atmosphere. Equipment worked on should...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £30 per hour + 1.5 + 2 OVERTIME
Posted: 17 May 2013