Risk Management Contracts in Berkshire

Risk Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Risk Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 48 54
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 53 75 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.54% 3.80% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 4.28% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 26 27
10th Percentile £335 £292 £401
25th Percentile £450 £464 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +6.94%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £638
90th Percentile £690 £631 £700
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £56.92 £63.27 £72.33
25th Percentile £60.75 £64.42 £74.02
Median hourly rate £62.25 £67.59 £78.70
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% -14.11% -
75th Percentile £87.16 £69.51 £84.02
90th Percentile £89.00 £69.91 £86.11
South East median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £72.40
% change year-on-year -5.39% -10.21% +31.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Risk Management 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 1,090 1,753 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.32% 88.76% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 639 917 1,045
10th Percentile £313 £213 £347
25th Percentile £414 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -3.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £620 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £704
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £19.00 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.00 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +5.50% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £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% +127.43%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in Berkshire

Risk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Management in Berkshire

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in Berkshire

Risk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Management in Berkshire

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in Berkshire

Risk Management
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 Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 3 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 +3 19 £600 +14.29% 16
Wokingham - 6 £550 - 3
Bracknell +17 4 - -
Slough -9 2 £435 -17.14% 6
Windsor -6 1 £575 -23.33%
Risk Management
South East

Risk Management
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 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.89%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.43%) AWS
2 4 (7.55%) Azure
3 2 (3.77%) GCP
3 2 (3.77%) Smartsheet
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.89%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.89%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.98%) Network Security
2 8 (15.09%) Firewall
3 7 (13.21%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (11.32%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (3.77%) LAN
5 2 (3.77%) WAN
6 1 (1.89%) BGP
6 1 (1.89%) DNS
6 1 (1.89%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.89%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.89%) Big Data
1 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
1 1 (1.89%) GIS
1 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (1.89%) DbUnit
1 1 (1.89%) Git
1 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.89%) JIRA
1 1 (1.89%) jMock
1 1 (1.89%) JUnit
1 1 (1.89%) Maven
1 1 (1.89%) Mockito
1 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (18.87%) Public Sector
2 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Telecoms
3 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.32%) Finance
4 5 (9.43%) Military
5 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.66%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.77%) Agriculture
6 2 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Law
6 2 (3.77%) Local Government
7 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) Senior
2 10 (18.87%) Project Manager
3 9 (16.98%) Architect
4 7 (13.21%) Security Architect
5 6 (11.32%) Head of Architecture
5 6 (11.32%) Head of Security
5 6 (11.32%) Security Specialist
5 6 (11.32%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 6 (11.32%) Senior Security Specialist
6 5 (9.43%) Head of Strategy
6 5 (9.43%) Information Security Specialist
6 5 (9.43%) Information Specialist
6 5 (9.43%) Security Advisor
6 5 (9.43%) Senior Information Security Specialist
7 4 (7.55%) Consultant
8 3 (5.66%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 3 (5.66%) Lead
8 3 (5.66%) Risk Manager
8 3 (5.66%) Security Consultant
9 2 (3.77%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (9.43%) JBoss Seam
3 1 (1.89%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.89%) Bootstrap
3 1 (1.89%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.89%) JPA
3 1 (1.89%) Middleware
3 1 (1.89%) PowerMock
3 1 (1.89%) REST
3 1 (1.89%) RESTful
3 1 (1.89%) SOAP
3 1 (1.89%) Spring
3 1 (1.89%) Spring Batch
3 1 (1.89%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.89%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) Spring Integration
3 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.85%) Management Information System
2 7 (13.21%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.55%) Life Science
4 3 (5.66%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.77%) CMDB
5 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.89%) CESG
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.89%) PMI
6 1 (1.89%) SCADA
6 1 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (39.62%) Security Architecture
2 20 (37.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (35.85%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (33.96%) Risk Assessment
5 16 (30.19%) Decision-Making
5 16 (30.19%) Information Security
5 16 (30.19%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 14 (26.42%) Project Management
7 10 (18.87%) Information Assurance
8 9 (16.98%) ITIL
8 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (15.09%) OWASP
9 8 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (13.21%) Agile
10 7 (13.21%) DevOps
10 7 (13.21%) Roadmaps
11 6 (11.32%) Budgeting
11 6 (11.32%) Change Management
11 6 (11.32%) Vulnerability Management
12 5 (9.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.89%) Java
1 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (45.28%) Security Cleared
2 19 (35.85%) DV Cleared
3 8 (15.09%) CISM
3 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
4 6 (11.32%) PMI Certification
5 5 (9.43%) Degree
5 5 (9.43%) PMP
6 4 (7.55%) CISSP
7 3 (5.66%) CEH
7 3 (5.66%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.77%) ISACA
9 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.89%) APMP
9 1 (1.89%) CCNA
9 1 (1.89%) CCNP
9 1 (1.89%) CCSP
9 1 (1.89%) CISA
9 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.87%) NCSC
1 10 (18.87%) NIST
2 8 (15.09%) COBIT
2 8 (15.09%) GDPR
2 8 (15.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.77%) GRC
4 1 (1.89%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.89%) P3O
4 1 (1.89%) PMO
4 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Docker
1 1 (1.89%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Grafana
1 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Darktrace
2 5 (9.43%) SAP
3 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.89%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.89%) Computacenter
4 1 (1.89%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.89%) Snow
4 1 (1.89%) Splunk