Risk Analysis Contract Job Trends in Reading

Risk Analysis
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Risk Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 80 86
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 0
Contract jobs citing Risk Analysis 6 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.80% 0.12% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.13% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £484 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £550 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% +19.05%

All Process & 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 652 792 946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.40% 92.20% 92.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 429 609
10th Percentile £325 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £422 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +6.38% -1.43%
75th Percentile £620 £645 £615
90th Percentile £664 £675 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 7 20
10th Percentile £15.70 £27.90 £51.11
25th Percentile £58.00 £35.75 £59.08
Median hourly rate £81.00 £61.76 £62.54
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% -1.25% -17.17%
75th Percentile £95.00 £69.80 £65.44
90th Percentile £105.80 £75.80 £69.31
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £61.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -5.68% +0.40% -5.77%

Risk Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Risk Analysis job vacancy trend in Reading

Risk Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Risk Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Risk Analysis

Risk Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Analysis in Reading over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Analysis in Reading

Risk Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Compliance Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Remote Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Thinking
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) End-to-End Testing
1 5 (83.33%) High Availability
1 5 (83.33%) Load Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Performance Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (83.33%) Scenario Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
1 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
1 5 (83.33%) Validation
1 5 (83.33%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes