Risk Assessment Contracts in Central London

Risk Assessment
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 112 147
Rank change year-on-year -4 +35 +46
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 18 19 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.88% 0.83% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.91% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 13
10th Percentile £323 £438 £563
25th Percentile £413 £492 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £635 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.32% -2.31% +10.17%
75th Percentile £586 £693 £725
90th Percentile £635 £734 £731
London median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,924 2,093 3,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.85% 91.56% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 1,443 2,214
10th Percentile £325 £375 £340
25th Percentile £425 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
London median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 19
10th Percentile £22.08 £15.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.43 £15.93
Median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -19.06%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.63 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £56.75
London median hourly rate £29.50 £35.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -16.31% -12.96% +12.50%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in Central London

Risk Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in Central London

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in Central London over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in Central London

Risk Assessment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in Central London

Risk Assessment
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
City of London +1 18 £525 -17.32% 10
Risk Assessment
London

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) OCI
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) FTP
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
1 2 (11.11%) SMTP
1 2 (11.11%) SSL
1 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) MLflow
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Legal
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Private Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Security Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Risk Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) ADO
1 2 (11.11%) OAuth
1 2 (11.11%) OpenID
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
2 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 3 (16.67%) Information Security
3 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (16.67%) Project Management
3 3 (16.67%) SIEM
3 3 (16.67%) Threat Detection
3 3 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.11%) Data Science
4 2 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (11.11%) Key Management
4 2 (11.11%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) C#
2 2 (11.11%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) CISSP
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.11%) OCP
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CISA
4 1 (5.56%) CISM
4 1 (5.56%) CRISC
4 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) NIST
2 7 (38.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (11.11%) GDPR
4 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (5.56%) COBIT
5 1 (5.56%) COSO
5 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle