Risk Assessment Contracts in England

Risk Assessment
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 312 393
Rank change year-on-year +32 +81 +138
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 197 228 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.81% 0.63% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.73% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 144 155
10th Percentile £356 £325 £463
25th Percentile £447 £438 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £638 £732 £706
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £606
% change year-on-year -4.55% -9.28% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 6
10th Percentile £33.63 - £41.40
25th Percentile £51.25 - £59.73
Median hourly rate £61.50 £14.54 £68.27
Median % change year-on-year +322.94% -78.70% +1.83%
75th Percentile £78.40 £31.87 £72.98
90th Percentile £86.64 £53.93 £73.29
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £14.54 £70.50
% change year-on-year +352.18% -79.38% +7.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,169 31,438 43,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.25% 86.37% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,471 20,622 30,640
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,250 1,536
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.96 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in England

Risk Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in England

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in England

Risk Assessment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in England

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Assessment in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Assessment in England

Risk Assessment
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +31 99 £550 -11.65% 218
South East +33 35 £575 +6.48% 70
North of England +24 28 £500 +11.11% 47
North West +25 24 £500 +45.45% 30
South West +25 14 £610 +103.33% 24
Midlands +23 11 £447 +5.18% 47
East Midlands +15 6 £359 +2.43% 26
West Midlands +7 5 £525 +20.00% 20
East of England +27 3 £525 -8.70% 20
Yorkshire +17 2 £600 -40.00% 12
North East -6 2 £421 -26.78% 5
Risk Assessment
UK

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.54%) Confluence
3 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.02%) CICS
4 2 (1.02%) TPMS
4 2 (1.02%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.52%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.51%) Endur
2 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.51%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.24%) Azure
2 24 (12.18%) AWS
3 12 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (5.58%) Entra ID
4 11 (5.58%) IaaS
5 7 (3.55%) GCP
6 6 (3.05%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (3.05%) OCI
6 6 (3.05%) SaaS
7 4 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.03%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.03%) GitHub
7 4 (2.03%) Serverless
8 3 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (1.52%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.52%) PaaS
8 3 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (15.74%) Firewall
2 20 (10.15%) Network Security
3 15 (7.61%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (3.55%) DNS
4 7 (3.55%) SSL
5 5 (2.54%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.03%) FTP
6 4 (2.03%) HTTP
6 4 (2.03%) SMTP
6 4 (2.03%) VPN
7 1 (0.51%) 4G
7 1 (0.51%) 5G
7 1 (0.51%) BGP
7 1 (0.51%) LAN
7 1 (0.51%) MPLS
7 1 (0.51%) PBX
7 1 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.51%) VoIP
7 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.06%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.52%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.52%) Metadata
4 2 (1.02%) DB2
4 2 (1.02%) EDMS
4 2 (1.02%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.51%) Big Data
5 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.51%) GIS
5 1 (0.51%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.51%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (6.60%) JIRA
2 2 (1.02%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.02%) Selenium
2 2 (1.02%) SOAtest
3 1 (0.51%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.51%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.51%) Metasploit
General
1 64 (32.49%) Social Skills
2 57 (28.93%) Finance
3 34 (17.26%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (17.26%) Public Sector
4 22 (11.17%) Banking
4 22 (11.17%) Telecoms
5 18 (9.14%) Legal
6 7 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.05%) Marketing
7 6 (3.05%) Military
7 6 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.05%) Retail Banking
8 5 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.03%) Electronics
10 3 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 35 (17.77%) Architect
2 27 (13.71%) Analyst
3 24 (12.18%) Security Architect
4 22 (11.17%) Senior
5 21 (10.66%) Consultant
6 20 (10.15%) Project Manager
7 15 (7.61%) Security Consultant
8 13 (6.60%) Lead
9 9 (4.57%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.06%) Security Engineer
10 8 (4.06%) Security Manager
11 7 (3.55%) Security Advisor
12 6 (3.05%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 6 (3.05%) Risk Analyst
13 5 (2.54%) Information Security Consultant
13 5 (2.54%) Information Specialist
13 5 (2.54%) Security Specialist
14 4 (2.03%) Programme Manager
14 4 (2.03%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 4 (2.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (3.05%) OAuth
1 6 (3.05%) OpenID
1 6 (3.05%) Oracle Fusion
1 6 (3.05%) SAML
2 5 (2.54%) JBoss Seam
3 4 (2.03%) .NET
4 2 (1.02%) J2EE
4 2 (1.02%) JSON
4 2 (1.02%) Web Services
4 2 (1.02%) XML
5 1 (0.51%) Kafka
5 1 (0.51%) Middleware
5 1 (0.51%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.51%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.51%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (0.51%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.51%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.74%) Management Information System
2 18 (9.14%) Security Posture
3 10 (5.08%) Operational Technology
4 9 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.55%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.52%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.02%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.02%) Derivative
10 2 (1.02%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.02%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.02%) Market Risk
10 2 (1.02%) SCADA
10 2 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.02%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.09%) Windows
2 9 (4.57%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.03%) Linux
4 2 (1.02%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (37.56%) Risk Management
2 56 (28.43%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (21.32%) Agile
5 41 (20.81%) Project Management
6 38 (19.29%) Information Security
7 35 (17.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 31 (15.74%) Decision-Making
9 27 (13.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (12.69%) Incident Response
10 25 (12.69%) Security Architecture
11 24 (12.18%) Change Management
11 24 (12.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 22 (11.17%) Cloud Security
13 21 (10.66%) DevOps
13 21 (10.66%) Enterprise Architecture
14 20 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (9.64%) Analytics
16 18 (9.14%) Vulnerability Scanning
17 17 (8.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.60%) Java
1 13 (6.60%) PowerShell
1 13 (6.60%) Python
2 6 (3.05%) C#
3 4 (2.03%) Bash
3 4 (2.03%) SQL
4 2 (1.02%) COBOL
4 2 (1.02%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.02%) JCL
4 2 (1.02%) REXX
5 1 (0.51%) C++
5 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.51%) R
5 1 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 63 (31.98%) Security Cleared
2 38 (19.29%) CISSP
3 31 (15.74%) SC Cleared
4 29 (14.72%) CISM
5 26 (13.20%) Degree
6 23 (11.68%) DV Cleared
7 15 (7.61%) Azure Certification
8 13 (6.60%) CRISC
9 11 (5.58%) CISA
10 10 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (4.06%) AWS Certification
11 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (3.05%) OCP
12 6 (3.05%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (2.54%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (2.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 4 (2.03%) CEH
14 4 (2.03%) Master's Degree
15 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (24.87%) NIST
2 47 (23.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (9.14%) GDPR
4 13 (6.60%) NCSC
5 12 (6.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (4.57%) GRC
6 9 (4.57%) QA
7 7 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (3.05%) NIST 800
8 6 (3.05%) SOC 2
9 5 (2.54%) HIPAA
10 4 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (2.03%) Data Quality
10 4 (2.03%) EU AI Act
10 4 (2.03%) JSP 440
10 4 (2.03%) PCI DSS
10 4 (2.03%) SLA
11 3 (1.52%) Basel II
11 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 12 (6.09%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (4.06%) vSphere
3 3 (1.52%) Docker
3 3 (1.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.51%) IAG
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (4.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.51%) Ansible
3 1 (0.51%) CASB
3 1 (0.51%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.51%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.51%) Grafana
3 1 (0.51%) Nessus
3 1 (0.51%) Podman
3 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.09%) VMware
3 9 (4.57%) SAP
4 8 (4.06%) Oracle
5 5 (2.54%) Darktrace
5 5 (2.54%) Okta
5 5 (2.54%) Planview
5 5 (2.54%) Qualys
5 5 (2.54%) Tenable
6 4 (2.03%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.52%) Google
7 3 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.02%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.02%) Ariba
8 2 (1.02%) Cisco
8 2 (1.02%) Fujitsu
8 2 (1.02%) Informatica
8 2 (1.02%) Parasoft
8 2 (1.02%) Splunk
9 1 (0.51%) OneTrust