Risk Assessment Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Risk Assessment
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Risk Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 91 118
Rank change year-on-year -14 +27 +45
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 9 25 19
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.57% 1.34% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.55% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 14
10th Percentile £456 £450 £458
25th Percentile - £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £547
Median % change year-on-year - -8.51% -10.78%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £588
90th Percentile £669 £588 £596
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -1.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,431 1,608 2,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 90.00% 86.41% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 791 952 1,338
10th Percentile £256 £206 £232
25th Percentile £389 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £560
90th Percentile £606 £669 £652
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 44 53
10th Percentile £16.44 £12.41 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.88 £13.16
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% +5.32% +0.56%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £41.16 £43.58 £77.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Risk Assessment job vacancy trend in Scotland

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Risk Assessment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in Scotland

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Risk Assessment.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Assessment within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -1 6 £500 -4.76% 1
Perthshire +5 1 £575 +15.00%
Glasgow -18 1 £750 +57.89% 5
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Risk Assessment
UK

Risk Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 4 (44.44%) OCI
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) MSTest
2 1 (11.11%) NUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) Ranorex
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Legal
1 4 (44.44%) Retail
2 3 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Implementation Specialist
2 3 (33.33%) Implementation Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Implementation Project Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Project Implementation Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (11.11%) IT Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (11.11%) SCADA
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
2 5 (55.56%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Dependency Management
3 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
3 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) ITIL
3 4 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
3 4 (44.44%) Runbook
3 4 (44.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
5 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Network Design
5 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) COBIT
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GRC
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) CheckPoint
1 4 (44.44%) Dell
1 4 (44.44%) Dynatrace
1 4 (44.44%) F5
1 4 (44.44%) HP
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Rockwell
2 1 (11.11%) VMware