The first table below looks at the demand for the Risk Consultant role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Risk Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Risk Consultant
Rank 493 567 565
Rank change year-on-year
+74 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Risk Consultant 37 11 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.080% 0.019% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.020% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 7 14
Average daily rate £500 £475 £538
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -11.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £440 £408
10% offered a daily rate of more than £598 £520 £703
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 - £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Risk Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Risk Consultant within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Risk Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Risk Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Risk Consultant within the UK.

Risk Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Risk Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Risk Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Risk Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Risk Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Risk Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Risk Consultant
Top 25 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +68 31 £550 +15.78%
London +27 15 £550 +15.78%
North West +23 9 £350 -
Chester - 6 - -
Cheshire - 6 - -
Glasgow - 3 £238 -
Scotland - 3 £238 -
South East - 2 £470 -
Chesterfield - 2 £575 -
Derbyshire - 2 £575 -
East Midlands - 2 £575 -
City of London +10 1 - -
West Wales - 1 £400 -
Wales - 1 £400 -
Yorkshire - 1 £325 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £325 -
Surrey - 1 £470 -
Pembrokeshire - 1 £400 -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Uxbridge - 1 £650 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £470 -
Reading - 1 - -
Milford Haven - 1 £400 -
Manchester - 1 £350 -
Halifax - 1 £325 -

Risk Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Risk Consultant in their job title 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 with Risk Consultant in their job title.

1 37 (51.39%) Information Security
2 31 (43.06%) Risk Assessment
3 30 (41.67%) CISSP
4 19 (26.39%) CISM
4 19 (26.39%) Risk Management
5 18 (25.00%) Finance
6 15 (20.83%) Risk Analysis
7 14 (19.44%) CISA
7 14 (19.44%) ITIL
8 12 (16.67%) Data Protection
9 10 (13.89%) Management Information System
9 10 (13.89%) TCP/IP
10 9 (12.50%) SQL
10 9 (12.50%) IIS
10 9 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (11.11%) SCADA
11 8 (11.11%) PCI DSS
11 8 (11.11%) SAP
11 8 (11.11%) Symantec
12 6 (8.333%) Credit Risk
12 6 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 6 (8.333%) Banking
13 5 (6.944%) Retail
13 5 (6.944%) CRISC
13 5 (6.944%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (6.944%) UNIX
13 5 (6.944%) Service Management
14 4 (5.556%) Business Continuity
14 4 (5.556%) Objective-C
14 4 (5.556%) Legal

Risk Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Risk Consultant in their job title 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 with Risk Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (2.778%) Flash
1 2 (2.778%) Apache Flex
1 2 (2.778%) HTML5
2 1 (1.389%) XML
Application Platforms
1 9 (12.50%) IIS
2 1 (1.389%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.389%) MS Exchange
2 1 (1.389%) SAS
2 1 (1.389%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (2.778%) MS Office
1 2 (2.778%) MS Excel
1 2 (2.778%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (1.389%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.389%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.389%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.389%) SunGard APT
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.89%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.167%) Internet
3 2 (2.778%) MPLS
4 1 (1.389%) Firewall
4 1 (1.389%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (2.778%) Subversion
1 2 (2.778%) GitHub
General
1 18 (25.00%) Finance
2 6 (8.333%) Banking
3 5 (6.944%) Retail
4 4 (5.556%) Legal
5 3 (4.167%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.167%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.778%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.389%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.389%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.389%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.389%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Management Information System
2 9 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (11.11%) SCADA
4 6 (8.333%) Credit Risk
5 4 (5.556%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.167%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.778%) RIA
8 1 (1.389%) Smart Meter
8 1 (1.389%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.389%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.944%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (51.39%) Information Security
2 31 (43.06%) Risk Assessment
3 19 (26.39%) Risk Management
4 15 (20.83%) Risk Analysis
5 14 (19.44%) ITIL
6 12 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 5 (6.944%) Service Management
8 4 (5.556%) PRINCE2
8 4 (5.556%) Project Management
8 4 (5.556%) Migration
8 4 (5.556%) Business Continuity
8 4 (5.556%) Penetration Testing
8 4 (5.556%) Security Architecture
9 3 (4.167%) Information Assurance
9 3 (4.167%) ERP
9 3 (4.167%) Quality Management
9 3 (4.167%) Project Planning
10 2 (2.778%) Change Management
10 2 (2.778%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (2.778%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.50%) SQL
2 4 (5.556%) Java
2 4 (5.556%) Objective-C
3 2 (2.778%) ActionScript
4 1 (1.389%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (41.67%) CISSP
2 19 (26.39%) CISM
3 14 (19.44%) CISA
4 5 (6.944%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (6.944%) CRISC
5 3 (4.167%) PCI QSA
6 2 (2.778%) CGEIT
7 1 (1.389%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.389%) CEH
7 1 (1.389%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) PCI DSS
2 6 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.556%) BS7799
4 3 (4.167%) COBIT
5 1 (1.389%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.389%) COSO
5 1 (1.389%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.389%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) SAP
1 8 (11.11%) Symantec
2 4 (5.556%) Cisco
3 3 (4.167%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.778%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.389%) SunGard