Risk Analysis Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Risk Analysis
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Risk Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 108 114
Rank change year-on-year +18 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Risk Analysis 9 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.74% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.14% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile - - £427
25th Percentile £475 £474 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £519
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -4.10% -1.19%
75th Percentile £550 £521 £583
90th Percentile - - £616
South East median daily rate £525 £436 £525
% change year-on-year +20.34% -16.90% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Risk Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,100 1,443 1,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.46% 88.04% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 762 992
10th Percentile £316 £325 £263
25th Percentile £413 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 62 67
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.31 £23.11
25th Percentile £17.45 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £37.28 £59.47 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -37.32% -3.75% +21.16%
75th Percentile £64.06 £63.42 £73.59
90th Percentile £82.18 £75.38 £76.46
South East median hourly rate £21.02 £58.49 £54.39
% change year-on-year -64.06% +7.55% +67.13%

Risk Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Risk Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Risk Analysis job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Risk Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Risk Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Risk Analysis

Risk Analysis
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Analysis within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 October 2025. 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
Reading +40 9 £500 +0.50%
Risk Analysis
South East

Risk Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (44.44%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 9 (100.00%) High Availability
1 9 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 9 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 9 (100.00%) Validation
1 9 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes