Risk Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

Risk Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Risk Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 56 43
Rank change year-on-year +10 -13 +20
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 20 32 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.37% 2.90% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 3.35% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 31
10th Percentile £325 - £313
25th Percentile £456 £500 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -7.08% +25.42%
75th Percentile £678 £558 £631
90th Percentile £688 £656 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £540 £570
% change year-on-year +20.37% -5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £85.00 £61.50 £72.84
% change year-on-year +38.22% -15.57% +42.81%

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 544 954 984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.74% 86.57% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 511 658
10th Percentile £342 £350 £299
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 18
10th Percentile - £14.50 £38.80
25th Percentile £14.75 £50.81 £57.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £61.33 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.53% -7.08% +24.53%
75th Percentile £58.00 £73.57 £74.59
90th Percentile £66.60 £87.46 £75.77
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.55 £60.00
% change year-on-year -39.43% +2.58% +18.81%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in Reading over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in Reading

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Risk Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Risk Management

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%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (5.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (5.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) Network Security
2 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 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Legal
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
1 5 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Information Security Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Information Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) EPoS Manager
4 1 (5.00%) EPoS Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) ERP Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Programme Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
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%) JBoss Seam
1 1 (5.00%) JPA
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
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 10 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (15.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) CESG
4 1 (5.00%) Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) EPoS
4 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (35.00%) Information Security
2 7 (35.00%) Security Architecture
3 6 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 6 (30.00%) Information Assurance
3 6 (30.00%) SIEM
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 5 (25.00%) Data Privacy
4 5 (25.00%) Forensic Analysis
4 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 5 (25.00%) Malware Analysis
4 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 4 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (20.00%) Behavioural Analysis
5 4 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (30.00%) CISSP
4 5 (25.00%) CFCE
4 5 (25.00%) GCFA
4 5 (25.00%) GCIA
4 5 (25.00%) GCIH
5 4 (20.00%) GIAC
6 1 (5.00%) CCNA
6 1 (5.00%) CEH
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.00%) Degree
6 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
6 1 (5.00%) PMP
6 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (40.00%) NIST
2 5 (25.00%) GDPR
3 4 (20.00%) HIPAA
3 4 (20.00%) NCSC
4 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (10.00%) NIST 800
4 2 (10.00%) RMADS
5 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) ArcSight
1 5 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
1 5 (25.00%) LogRhythm
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (5.00%) FireEye
2 1 (5.00%) Intel
2 1 (5.00%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (5.00%) Tanium