Risk Assessment Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Risk Assessment
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Risk Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 77 101
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 +30
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 4 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.26% 0.56% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.66% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile - £469 -
25th Percentile £313 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +26.32% +26.67%
75th Percentile £513 - £625
90th Percentile £535 £615 £715
England median daily rate £540 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -12.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,314 914 1,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.72% 84.63% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 402 775
10th Percentile £200 £240 £225
25th Percentile £363 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £681 £695 £712
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 168 362
10th Percentile £14.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.31
Median hourly rate £20.30 £35.00 £21.73
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% +61.07% -1.23%
75th Percentile £60.75 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Risk Assessment relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Risk Assessment job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Risk Assessment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in the East of England over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the East of England

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Risk Assessment.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Bedfordshire - 3 £325 - 1
Suffolk - 1 £550 - 2
Risk Assessment
England

Risk Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (50.00%) Aviation
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Planner
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) ERP
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CEH
2 1 (25.00%) CRISC
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) OSCP
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) PMO
2 1 (25.00%) GRC
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Tenable