Risk Assessment Contract Job Trends in London

Risk Assessment
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Risk Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 257 317
Rank change year-on-year -40 +60 +119
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 77 118 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 0.79% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.88% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 65 58
10th Percentile £411 £425 £333
25th Percentile £463 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £655 £690 £723
90th Percentile £805 £838 £860
England median daily rate £540 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £71.68 £25.47
25th Percentile - £76.00 £25.60
Median hourly rate - £83.20 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year - +222.36% +11.83%
75th Percentile - - £26.03
90th Percentile - - £26.15
England median hourly rate £56.50 £61.50 £73.60
% change year-on-year -8.12% -16.45% +98.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,080 13,458 16,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.13% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,615 8,640 11,962
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -2.57% -4.32%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 165 235
10th Percentile £18.09 £18.04 £18.40
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +11.65% -15.64%
75th Percentile £52.19 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.10 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +22.57%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Risk Assessment job vacancy trend in London

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in London over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in London

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Risk Assessment
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Central London -3 14 £563 +2.27% 21
South London -9 3 £525 -
East London +2 1 £638 +6.25% 1
Risk Assessment
England

Risk Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.90%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.90%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.30%) GNU Octave
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.30%) Primavera
1 1 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.08%) Azure
2 13 (16.88%) AWS
3 6 (7.79%) SaaS
4 4 (5.19%) GCP
5 3 (3.90%) IaaS
5 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.90%) PaaS
5 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.60%) GitHub
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.30%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.30%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.60%) Modbus
3 1 (1.30%) BGP
3 1 (1.30%) IPsec
3 1 (1.30%) Network Security
3 1 (1.30%) VLAN
3 1 (1.30%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) Power BI
2 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.30%) Metadata
2 1 (1.30%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) JIRA
2 2 (2.60%) Git
3 1 (1.30%) MLflow
General
1 29 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 27 (35.06%) Finance
3 13 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.99%) Banking
5 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
6 7 (9.09%) Legal
7 6 (7.79%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (5.19%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.90%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.60%) Private Banking
10 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.30%) Military
11 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.30%) Retail
11 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (25.97%) Analyst
2 9 (11.69%) Architect
2 9 (11.69%) Risk Analyst
2 9 (11.69%) Security Engineer
3 8 (10.39%) Consultant
4 6 (7.79%) Senior
5 5 (6.49%) Business Analyst
5 5 (6.49%) Security Architect
6 3 (3.90%) Governance Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Information Assurance Consultant
6 3 (3.90%) Information Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Lead
6 3 (3.90%) Risk Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Security Consultant
7 2 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (2.60%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 2 (2.60%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (2.60%) Information Governance Manager
7 2 (2.60%) Principal Security Architect
7 2 (2.60%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (2.60%) ADO
3 1 (1.30%) .NET
3 1 (1.30%) CrewAI
3 1 (1.30%) JSON
3 1 (1.30%) LangChain
3 1 (1.30%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.30%) REST
3 1 (1.30%) Spring
3 1 (1.30%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.49%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.60%) Insider Threat
3 2 (2.60%) Life Science
3 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.60%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.60%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (2.60%) SCADA
4 1 (1.30%) AS400
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.30%) IoT
4 1 (1.30%) iSeries
4 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.30%) PMI
4 1 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Linux
1 4 (5.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.06%) Risk Management
2 22 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (19.48%) AI
4 13 (16.88%) Information Security
4 13 (16.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 11 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 11 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (14.29%) OWASP
5 11 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
6 10 (12.99%) Decision-Making
7 9 (11.69%) LLM
7 9 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (10.39%) Data Analysis
8 8 (10.39%) Regulatory Compliance
9 7 (9.09%) Application Security
9 7 (9.09%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 7 (9.09%) SDLC
9 7 (9.09%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.99%) Python
2 5 (6.49%) SQL
3 4 (5.19%) Java
4 3 (3.90%) C++
4 3 (3.90%) Kotlin
4 3 (3.90%) Rust
5 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (22.08%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.58%) CISSP
4 9 (11.69%) Degree
5 5 (6.49%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.19%) CISM
6 4 (5.19%) Master's Degree
6 4 (5.19%) OSCP
6 4 (5.19%) SANS
7 3 (3.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.90%) CEH
7 3 (3.90%) CREST Certified
7 3 (3.90%) CRISC
7 3 (3.90%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.60%) CCNA
8 2 (2.60%) CCNP
8 2 (2.60%) CCSP
8 2 (2.60%) CISA
8 2 (2.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.08%) NIST
2 15 (19.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (10.39%) GRC
4 5 (6.49%) EU AI Act
4 5 (6.49%) NIST 800
4 5 (6.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (5.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (5.19%) COBIT
5 4 (5.19%) GDPR
6 3 (3.90%) NCSC
7 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
7 2 (2.60%) COSO
7 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (2.60%) ITGC
7 2 (2.60%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.60%) PMO
7 2 (2.60%) SLA
7 2 (2.60%) SOX 404
System Software
1 2 (2.60%) Docker
1 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.30%) KVM
2 1 (1.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) Terraform
2 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.30%) Ansible
3 1 (1.30%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 7 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.19%) Oracle
2 4 (5.19%) SAP
3 3 (3.90%) Alibaba
3 3 (3.90%) Google
3 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.60%) Rockwell
5 1 (1.30%) AlgoSec
5 1 (1.30%) Ariba
5 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.30%) IBM
5 1 (1.30%) Juniper
5 1 (1.30%) NetApp
5 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.30%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.30%) Virgin Media