Risk Assessment Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Risk Assessment
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Risk Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 54 75
Rank change year-on-year -4 +21 +38
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 7 14 8
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.19% 2.19% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 2.39% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 6
10th Percentile £324 £429 £378
25th Percentile £350 £441 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £497
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.74% +4.53%
75th Percentile - £538 £548
90th Percentile - £558 £638
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 536 587 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.47% 91.72% 92.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 310 492
10th Percentile £221 £228 £200
25th Percentile £406 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 10
10th Percentile £17.62 £16.86 £13.12
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +33.96% -14.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £66.00 - £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Risk Assessment job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Risk Assessment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in Edinburgh

Risk Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 4 (57.14%) OCI
4 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
1 4 (57.14%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Legal
1 4 (57.14%) Retail
2 3 (42.86%) Retail Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Implementation Specialist
2 3 (42.86%) Implementation Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Implementation Project Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Project Implementation Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (14.29%) IT Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (57.14%) Dependency Management
4 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
4 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) ITIL
4 4 (57.14%) Migration
4 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) Runbook
4 4 (57.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Register
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) COBIT
2 2 (28.57%) GRC
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
1 4 (57.14%) Dell
1 4 (57.14%) Dynatrace
1 4 (57.14%) F5
1 4 (57.14%) HP
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) VMware