Risk Assessment Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Risk Assessment
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Risk Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 103 135
Rank change year-on-year -3 +32 +52
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 16 20 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.93% 0.95% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.04% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 10
10th Percentile £353 £349 £556
25th Percentile £413 £488 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £599 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.32% -4.20% +11.11%
75th Percentile £585 £660 £713
90th Percentile £618 £716 £730
Central London median daily rate £525 £599 £600
% change year-on-year -12.32% -0.21% +6.67%

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 1,631 1,931 2,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.39% 91.91% 90.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,201 1,845
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £690 £700
90th Percentile £774 £792 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 17
10th Percentile £16.96 £15.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.88 £21.25 £16.61
Median hourly rate £28.15 £38.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.88% +40.00% -35.29%
75th Percentile £50.25 £102.25 £46.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -18.57% +30.84% -35.54%

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

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Risk Assessment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment
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 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the City of London

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Risk Assessment.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (12.50%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) MLflow
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Legal
3 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Private Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Security Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 2 (12.50%) Security Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Applications Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Insider Threat
2 2 (12.50%) Life Science
2 2 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 2 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (12.50%) SCADA
2 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (31.25%) Information Security
2 5 (31.25%) Risk Management
3 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (25.00%) Security Management
4 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
4 3 (18.75%) Information Security Management
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (12.50%) Antivirus Management
5 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Defect Management
5 2 (12.50%) ModelOps
5 2 (12.50%) Network Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
5 2 (12.50%) Security Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) CISSP
3 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (12.50%) CCNA
3 2 (12.50%) CCNP
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.25%) CISA
4 1 (6.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (31.25%) NIST
3 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (6.25%) COBIT
4 1 (6.25%) COSO
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (6.25%) GDPR
4 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
4 1 (6.25%) NCSC
4 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Rockwell
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft