Risk Analysis Contracts in the South East

Risk Analysis
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Risk Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 175 195
Rank change year-on-year +18 +20 +66
Contract jobs citing Risk Analysis 7 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.32% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 11
10th Percentile - - £390
25th Percentile £475 £165 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £229 £500
Median % change year-on-year +118.34% -54.20% -
75th Percentile £525 £424 £608
90th Percentile £538 £485 £615
England median daily rate £550 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +29.41% -22.73% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.23
Median hourly rate - - £24.46
75th Percentile - - £26.69
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.71 £48.75 £83.40
% change year-on-year +36.83% -41.55% +39.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,151 4,093 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.05% 82.84% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 2,486 3,415
10th Percentile £250 £255 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 328 237
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.02 £21.22
Median hourly rate £21.67 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.22% +14.70% +105.25%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

Risk Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Risk Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Analysis in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Analysis in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Risk Analysis in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Analysis in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Analysis in the South East

Risk Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Analysis within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Berkshire +12 6 £500 +4.44% 2
Thames Valley +9 6 £500 +150.63% 3
Home Counties - 1 £550 -
Risk Analysis
England

Risk Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Planner
3 1 (14.29%) Security Advisor
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Analytical Thinking
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Load Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Performance Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Scenario Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Test Scripting
2 5 (71.43%) Validation
2 5 (71.43%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Data Interpretation
3 1 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) SOAR
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Certification
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Darktrace
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft