Risk Management Contracts in Reading

Risk Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Risk Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Management 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 40 40 55
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 -9
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 20 55 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.35% 4.61% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 5.12% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 15
10th Percentile £515 £205 £468
25th Percentile £538 £460 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +3.15%
75th Percentile £738 £550 £644
90th Percentile £805 £598 £695
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £570
% change year-on-year - -7.89% +6.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Risk Management 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in Reading

Risk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Management in Reading

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in Reading

Risk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Management in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Management in Reading

Risk Management
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 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) Network Security
2 6 (30.00%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (5.00%) DbUnit
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) jMock
1 1 (5.00%) JUnit
1 1 (5.00%) Maven
1 1 (5.00%) Mockito
1 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Law
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Head of Architecture
1 6 (30.00%) Head of Security
2 5 (25.00%) Head of Strategy
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Compliance Specialist
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Security Advisor
5 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Security Specialist
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Security Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Head of Mobile
6 1 (5.00%) Head of Networks
6 1 (5.00%) SAP Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Information Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (5.00%) JPA
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
1 1 (5.00%) PowerMock
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) RESTful
1 1 (5.00%) SOAP
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Integration
1 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (50.00%) Information Security
2 8 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 7 (35.00%) ITIL
3 7 (35.00%) OWASP
4 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 5 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
5 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 4 (20.00%) Agile
6 4 (20.00%) Budgeting
6 4 (20.00%) Information Assurance
6 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (15.00%) Application Security
7 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (15.00%) Information Security Management
7 3 (15.00%) Security Management
7 3 (15.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Java
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) CISM
5 2 (10.00%) CISSP
6 1 (5.00%) CEH
6 1 (5.00%) CISA
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.00%) Degree
6 1 (5.00%) ISACA
6 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) NIST
2 7 (35.00%) COBIT
2 7 (35.00%) GDPR
3 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (15.00%) NCSC
4 2 (10.00%) GRC
5 1 (5.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (5.00%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) Snow