Risk Assessment Contracts in the South East

Risk Assessment
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 164 162
Rank change year-on-year +46 -2 +68
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 39 40 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.28% 0.70% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 0.85% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 31
10th Percentile £450 £496 £463
25th Percentile £500 £540 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +6.25% +10.60%
75th Percentile £638 £743 £675
90th Percentile £713 £766 £688
England median daily rate £537 £575 £610
% change year-on-year -6.57% -5.74% +10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £51.25 - £42.88
25th Percentile £56.00 - £61.09
Median hourly rate £61.50 - £72.40
75th Percentile £87.38 - £73.76
90th Percentile £89.50 - £74.05
England median hourly rate £70.00 £14.54 £72.40
% change year-on-year +381.43% -79.92% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,783 4,710 5,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.25% 82.50% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,741 2,726 3,514
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £396 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £511
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.24% +2.25%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £620
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 470 231
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.06 £18.23 £22.07
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% -4.03% +131.56%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.75 £65.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment 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 Assessment in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in the South East over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment 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 Assessment in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Assessment in the South East over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the South East

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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 Assessment within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Thames Valley +22 24 £675 -9.15% 16
Berkshire +25 22 £550 -12.00% 7
Hampshire +42 11 £575 -22.61% 11
Surrey +24 3 - - 6
Oxfordshire - 2 £788 - 4
West Sussex - 1 £450 - 7
Risk Assessment
England

Risk Assessment
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) TPMS
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.13%) Azure
2 1 (2.56%) AWS
2 1 (2.56%) GCP
2 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) Firewall
2 8 (20.51%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (7.69%) DNS
4 1 (2.56%) BGP
4 1 (2.56%) LAN
4 1 (2.56%) Network Security
4 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.56%) VPN
4 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Burp Suite
1 1 (2.56%) Metasploit
General
1 10 (25.64%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Public Sector
3 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Telecoms
4 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Military
6 2 (5.13%) Aerospace
6 2 (5.13%) Electronics
6 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.13%) Marketing
6 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Billing
7 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Senior
2 8 (20.51%) Lead
3 7 (17.95%) Architect
3 7 (17.95%) Security Architect
4 5 (12.82%) Information Specialist
4 5 (12.82%) Security Advisor
5 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.69%) Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Consultant
6 3 (7.69%) Information Security Specialist
6 3 (7.69%) Security Consultant
6 3 (7.69%) Security Specialist
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Information Security Specialist
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Security Specialist
7 2 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Information Assurance Specialist
7 2 (5.13%) Project Office Support
7 2 (5.13%) Risk Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Information Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (20.51%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 18 (46.15%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.13%) CESG
2 2 (5.13%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Kali Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) Risk Management
2 20 (51.28%) Security Architecture
3 19 (48.72%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 17 (43.59%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (41.03%) Decision-Making
6 11 (28.21%) Information Assurance
6 11 (28.21%) Information Security
7 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (20.51%) DevOps
9 6 (15.38%) Project Management
10 5 (12.82%) Agile
10 5 (12.82%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (10.26%) Incident Response
11 4 (10.26%) PRINCE2
12 3 (7.69%) Analytics
12 3 (7.69%) Penetration Testing
12 3 (7.69%) Programme Management
12 3 (7.69%) Roadmaps
12 3 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
13 2 (5.13%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (71.79%) Security Cleared
2 25 (64.10%) DV Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) CISM
4 6 (15.38%) CISSP
5 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
6 3 (7.69%) CEH
7 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.56%) CCNA
7 1 (2.56%) CCNP
7 1 (2.56%) CCSP
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) NCSC
2 7 (17.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (15.38%) NIST
4 2 (5.13%) JSP 440
4 2 (5.13%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.56%) GDPR
5 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.56%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Darktrace
2 2 (5.13%) Fujitsu
2 2 (5.13%) SAP
2 2 (5.13%) Splunk
3 1 (2.56%) BMC
3 1 (2.56%) BT
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) Remedy
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.56%) Tenable