Risk Assessment Contracts in the UK excluding London

Risk Assessment
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 281 333
Rank change year-on-year +61 +52 +62
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 115 122 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.90% 0.59% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.70% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 66 81
10th Percentile £367 £300 £450
25th Percentile £431 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £588
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -11.06% +6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £611 £688
90th Percentile £638 £737 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £569 £613
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 5
10th Percentile £33.63 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £59.73
Median hourly rate £61.50 £14.54 £72.40
Median % change year-on-year +322.94% -79.92% +12.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £72.98
90th Percentile £86.64 £31.65 £73.35
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £14.54 £70.50
% change year-on-year +322.94% -79.38% +9.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,553 17,505 21,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.71% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,248 10,459 14,852
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,060 1,308
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Risk Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London

Risk Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London

Risk Assessment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London

Risk Assessment
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East +38 41 £575 +6.48% 69
North of England +20 24 £500 +11.11% 53
North West +19 20 £495 +10.00% 29
Scotland +10 20 £464 -19.39% 23
South West +28 17 £600 +100.00% 17
Midlands +22 12 £447 +2.17% 39
West Midlands +19 6 £525 +16.67% 17
East Midlands +17 6 £359 +2.43% 22
Yorkshire +11 2 £600 -40.00% 16
North East -2 2 £421 -26.78% 8
East of England +35 1 £406 -29.39% 14
Risk Assessment
UK

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.74%) CICS
2 2 (1.74%) TPMS
2 2 (1.74%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.87%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.65%) Azure
2 14 (12.17%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (7.83%) IaaS
4 8 (6.96%) Entra ID
5 7 (6.09%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.35%) AWS
7 3 (2.61%) GCP
8 1 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.87%) OCI
8 1 (0.87%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.87%) PaaS
8 1 (0.87%) SaaS
8 1 (0.87%) Serverless
8 1 (0.87%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 20 (17.39%) Firewall
2 13 (11.30%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (7.83%) Network Security
4 3 (2.61%) DNS
4 3 (2.61%) LAN
4 3 (2.61%) WAN
5 1 (0.87%) 4G
5 1 (0.87%) 5G
5 1 (0.87%) ADSL
5 1 (0.87%) BGP
5 1 (0.87%) PBX
5 1 (0.87%) PSTN
5 1 (0.87%) SDH
5 1 (0.87%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.87%) SSL
5 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.87%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.87%) VoIP
5 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.61%) Metadata
3 2 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.74%) DB2
3 2 (1.74%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.87%) GIS
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.74%) JIRA
2 2 (1.74%) Selenium
2 2 (1.74%) SOAtest
3 1 (0.87%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.87%) GitLab
3 1 (0.87%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.87%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (30.43%) Finance
2 29 (25.22%) Public Sector
2 29 (25.22%) Social Skills
3 22 (19.13%) Telecoms
4 17 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.96%) Banking
5 8 (6.96%) Legal
6 7 (6.09%) Military
7 5 (4.35%) Electronics
7 5 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.35%) Marketing
8 4 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.61%) Local Government
10 2 (1.74%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.74%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.87%) Automotive
11 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (17.39%) Senior
2 17 (14.78%) Project Manager
3 14 (12.17%) Architect
4 13 (11.30%) Security Specialist
5 9 (7.83%) Analyst
6 8 (6.96%) Lead
6 8 (6.96%) Security Architect
7 7 (6.09%) Information Specialist
7 7 (6.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 6 (5.22%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 6 (5.22%) Senior Security Specialist
9 5 (4.35%) Consultant
9 5 (4.35%) Information Security Specialist
9 5 (4.35%) Security Advisor
9 5 (4.35%) Senior Information Security Specialist
10 4 (3.48%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 4 (3.48%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Security Manager
11 3 (2.61%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 3 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (4.35%) JBoss Seam
3 3 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.74%) J2EE
4 2 (1.74%) JSON
4 2 (1.74%) Web Services
4 2 (1.74%) XML
5 1 (0.87%) Kafka
5 1 (0.87%) OAuth
5 1 (0.87%) OpenID
5 1 (0.87%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.39%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.96%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (6.09%) Security Posture
4 5 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.48%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.48%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.48%) PKI
6 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.74%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.74%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.74%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (1.74%) SCADA
7 2 (1.74%) VSAM
8 1 (0.87%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.30%) Windows
2 12 (10.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.74%) Linux
3 2 (1.74%) Unix
4 1 (0.87%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 33 (28.70%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (26.09%) Project Management
4 26 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (20.87%) Agile
6 23 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (18.26%) Change Management
8 20 (17.39%) Security Architecture
9 19 (16.52%) Information Security
10 18 (15.65%) Decision-Making
11 17 (14.78%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 16 (13.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (13.04%) Project Delivery
14 14 (12.17%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 13 (11.30%) Business Continuity
16 12 (10.43%) Information Assurance
16 12 (10.43%) Threat Modelling
17 10 (8.70%) Budget Management
17 10 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 10 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.35%) Java
3 3 (2.61%) Python
4 2 (1.74%) Bash
4 2 (1.74%) COBOL
4 2 (1.74%) JCL
4 2 (1.74%) REXX
Qualifications
1 40 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.87%) DV Cleared
3 15 (13.04%) CISM
4 14 (12.17%) Degree
5 12 (10.43%) CISSP
6 11 (9.57%) SC Cleared
7 10 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (6.96%) Azure Certification
9 5 (4.35%) CEH
9 5 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (3.48%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.61%) CISA
11 3 (2.61%) CRISC
11 3 (2.61%) ISACA
11 3 (2.61%) PMP
12 2 (1.74%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.74%) MCSE
13 1 (0.87%) GCIH
13 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (11.30%) NIST
3 10 (8.70%) NCSC
4 5 (4.35%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.48%) JSP 440
5 4 (3.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (2.61%) NIST 800
6 3 (2.61%) PMO
6 3 (2.61%) QA
6 3 (2.61%) SLA
7 2 (1.74%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.74%) GRC
7 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.87%) GDPR
8 1 (0.87%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.87%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.87%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 13 (11.30%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.96%) vSphere
3 7 (6.09%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.48%) SCCM
3 2 (1.74%) Terraform
4 1 (0.87%) Ansible
4 1 (0.87%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.87%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.87%) Grafana
4 1 (0.87%) Podman
4 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) Microsoft
1 12 (10.43%) VMware
2 5 (4.35%) Darktrace
2 5 (4.35%) Oracle
3 4 (3.48%) SAP
3 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.61%) Cisco
5 2 (1.74%) Ab Initio
5 2 (1.74%) Fujitsu
5 2 (1.74%) Informatica
5 2 (1.74%) Nokia
5 2 (1.74%) Parasoft
5 2 (1.74%) Planview
5 2 (1.74%) Splunk
6 1 (0.87%) BT
6 1 (0.87%) F5
6 1 (0.87%) Google
6 1 (0.87%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.87%) Qualys
6 1 (0.87%) Tenable