Risk Analysis Contracts in Reading

Risk Analysis
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Risk Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 87 86
Rank change year-on-year +30 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Risk Analysis 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% 0.34% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.37% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £460 £600
% change year-on-year +8.70% -23.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Risk Analysis 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Risk Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Risk Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Analysis in Reading

Risk Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Analysis in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Risk Analysis in Reading

Risk Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Commercial Manager
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Advisor
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
2 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Darktrace