Risk Assessment Contracts in Reading

Risk Assessment
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 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 53 78 79
Rank change year-on-year +25 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 7 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.17% 1.09% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.21% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £530
25th Percentile - - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +258.97%
75th Percentile - - £744
90th Percentile - - £748
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% +10.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 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 Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in Reading

Risk Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in Reading

Risk Assessment
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
1 1 (14.29%) Metasploit
General
1 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Security Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Security Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Change Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Information Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Security Advisor
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Information Security Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Kali Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Risk Management
1 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 4 (57.14%) Security Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) Information Assurance
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Availability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Trend Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) CISM
4 1 (14.29%) CISSP
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) BMC
1 1 (14.29%) BT
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy