Risk Assessment Contracts in the City of London

Risk Assessment
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 99 144
Rank change year-on-year -13 +45 +38
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 10 23 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.58% 1.06% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.17% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 13
10th Percentile £325 £340 £523
25th Percentile £369 £438 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% -10.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £617 £704 £775
90th Percentile £660 £756 £823
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £700
% change year-on-year -3.51% -18.57% +3.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 1,966 3,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.26% 90.47% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,389 2,209
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £459 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.10
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £16.61
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
1 2 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) FTP
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
1 2 (20.00%) SMTP
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Insurance Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Risk Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth
1 2 (20.00%) OpenID
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Chaos Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Key Management
3 2 (20.00%) OWASP
3 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) OCP
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (30.00%) NIST
3 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft