Risk Assessment Contracts in Berkshire

Risk Assessment
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Risk Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 104 93
Rank change year-on-year +31 -11 +25
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 22 18 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.87% 0.91% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.02% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £505 - £503
25th Percentile £513 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% +10.81%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £738
90th Percentile £690 £705 £745
South East median daily rate £575 £540 £665
% change year-on-year +6.48% -18.80% +33.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.75 - £71.20
Median hourly rate £61.50 - £72.40
75th Percentile £87.50 - £73.59
90th Percentile £90.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £61.50 - £72.40
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Risk Assessment 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 1,098 1,761 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.37% 88.89% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 921 1,045
10th Percentile £313 £213 £340
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £704
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 100 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.05 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.30 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +6.02% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in Berkshire

Risk Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in Berkshire

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in Berkshire

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Assessment in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Assessment in Berkshire

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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 Assessment within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +31 7 £500 - 1
Bracknell +19 1 - - 2
Slough -6 1 £525 - 4
Windsor -7 1 £600 -20.00%
Wokingham -12 1 £550 +10.00%
Risk Assessment
South East

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) GCP
1 1 (4.55%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) Firewall
2 5 (22.73%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (9.09%) LAN
3 2 (9.09%) WAN
4 1 (4.55%) BGP
4 1 (4.55%) DNS
4 1 (4.55%) Network Security
4 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.55%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Burp Suite
1 1 (4.55%) Metasploit
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Military
2 5 (22.73%) Telecoms
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Senior
2 6 (27.27%) Security Specialist
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Security Specialist
3 5 (22.73%) Information Security Specialist
3 5 (22.73%) Information Specialist
3 5 (22.73%) Senior Information Security Specialist
4 4 (18.18%) Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Security Advisor
5 3 (13.64%) Lead
5 3 (13.64%) Security Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Change Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Information Security Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Network Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Penetration Tester
7 1 (4.55%) Risk Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Security Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (22.73%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 15 (68.18%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) CESG
3 1 (4.55%) Life Science
3 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.55%) SCADA
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Kali Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Risk Management
2 16 (72.73%) Security Architecture
2 16 (72.73%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 15 (68.18%) Decision-Making
4 9 (40.91%) Information Assurance
5 8 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (31.82%) Information Security
7 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (22.73%) DevOps
9 2 (9.09%) Change Management
9 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (9.09%) Incident Response
9 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 2 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
9 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
10 1 (4.55%) Availability Management
10 1 (4.55%) Budgeting
10 1 (4.55%) Customer Experience
10 1 (4.55%) DevSecOps
10 1 (4.55%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 15 (68.18%) Security Cleared
2 14 (63.64%) DV Cleared
3 6 (27.27%) CISM
4 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
5 2 (9.09%) CISSP
6 1 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (4.55%) CCNA
6 1 (4.55%) CCNP
6 1 (4.55%) CCSP
6 1 (4.55%) CEH
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.55%) Degree
6 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
6 1 (4.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) NCSC
2 6 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Darktrace
2 1 (4.55%) BMC
2 1 (4.55%) BT
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco
2 1 (4.55%) HP
2 1 (4.55%) Remedy
2 1 (4.55%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) VMware