Risk Assessment Contracts in the Thames Valley

Risk Assessment
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 109 117
Rank change year-on-year +27 +8 +33
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 19 31 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.27% 1.19% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.37% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 14
10th Percentile £506 £475 £463
25th Percentile £522 £494 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £613
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +4.08% +36.11%
75th Percentile £666 £752 £722
90th Percentile £719 £778 £776
South East median daily rate £575 £540 £625
% change year-on-year +6.48% -13.60% +20.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.75 - £71.20
Median hourly rate £73.25 - £72.40
75th Percentile £88.75 - £73.59
90th Percentile £91.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £61.50 - £72.40
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,393 2,259 2,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.87% 86.98% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 1,256 1,764
10th Percentile £290 £213 £317
25th Percentile £404 £371 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -0.05% -1.91% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 167 63
10th Percentile - £14.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £19.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £31.50 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -10.00% +194.12%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.31 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +132.56%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Assessment in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 May 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 +27 18 £550 +10.00% 6
Oxfordshire +2 1 £675 +25.58% 1
Risk Assessment
South East

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Firewall
2 5 (26.32%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.26%) BGP
3 1 (5.26%) DNS
3 1 (5.26%) LAN
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Burp Suite
1 1 (5.26%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
1 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.79%) Military
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Security Advisor
3 3 (15.79%) Information Security Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Information Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Security Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Security Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Information Security Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Security Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Change Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Risk Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Security Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Technology Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (26.32%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) CESG
3 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.26%) SCADA
3 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Kali Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Risk Management
2 13 (68.42%) Security Architecture
2 13 (68.42%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 12 (63.16%) Decision-Making
4 9 (47.37%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (36.84%) Information Security
6 6 (31.58%) Information Assurance
7 5 (26.32%) DevOps
8 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
10 2 (10.53%) Change Management
10 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
10 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
10 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
10 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
11 1 (5.26%) Availability Management
11 1 (5.26%) Customer Experience
11 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps
11 1 (5.26%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 11 (57.89%) DV Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) CISM
4 3 (15.79%) CISSP
4 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (5.26%) CCNA
5 1 (5.26%) CCNP
5 1 (5.26%) CCSP
5 1 (5.26%) CEH
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) NCSC
2 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (10.53%) NIST
4 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Darktrace
2 1 (5.26%) BMC
2 1 (5.26%) BT
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco
2 1 (5.26%) HP
2 1 (5.26%) Remedy
2 1 (5.26%) Splunk
2 1 (5.26%) VMware