Risk Assessment Contracts in the UK excluding London

Risk Assessment
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Risk Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Risk Assessment over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 327 390
Rank change year-on-year +56 +63 -56
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 124 125 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.52% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.58% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 83 86
10th Percentile £303 £453 £386
25th Percentile £450 £481 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £602 £700 £638
90th Percentile £730 £788 £698
UK median daily rate £575 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 8
10th Percentile - - £47.41
25th Percentile - £59.73 £51.76
Median hourly rate £14.54 £72.40 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -79.92% +21.67% -7.03%
75th Percentile - £72.98 £67.71
90th Percentile £31.65 £73.35 £70.21
UK median hourly rate £14.54 £70.50 £59.50
% change year-on-year -79.38% +18.49% -7.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Risk Assessment is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,628 21,692 27,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.82% 89.60% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,612 15,031 19,309
10th Percentile £246 £252 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,028 1,339 1,383
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.16 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.62 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +5 41 £540 -20.00% 52
South West +22 31 £425 -34.62% 29
Scotland +38 23 £575 +27.78% 18
North of England +45 21 £450 -20.00% 56
North West +26 15 £450 -25.77% 34
Midlands +31 5 £450 -7.22% 35
West Midlands +24 4 £483 -0.52% 27
Yorkshire +21 3 £788 +43.18% 19
North East - 3 £575 - 4
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East of England +11 1 £575 +12.20% 26
Wales - 1 £450 - 7
East Midlands - 1 £350 - 8
Risk Assessment
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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 4 (3.23%) Apache Solr
1 4 (3.23%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (7.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.03%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (9.68%) Azure
3 8 (6.45%) GCP
4 4 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.42%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.61%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.61%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (1.61%) AWS
6 2 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.61%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.61%) Rekognition
6 2 (1.61%) Serverless
6 2 (1.61%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.90%) Firewall
2 8 (6.45%) Network Security
3 4 (3.23%) DNS
3 4 (3.23%) HTTPS
3 4 (3.23%) IPsec
3 4 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.42%) LTE
4 3 (2.42%) SSL
5 2 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.81%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.81%) GPRS
6 1 (0.81%) Internet
6 1 (0.81%) SDH
6 1 (0.81%) VSAT
6 1 (0.81%) WAN
6 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.23%) Couchbase
1 4 (3.23%) MySQL
1 4 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.81%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.81%) IDMS
General
1 34 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.97%) Finance
3 23 (18.55%) Telecoms
4 21 (16.94%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.06%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.65%) Legal
8 5 (4.03%) Electronics
8 5 (4.03%) Police
9 4 (3.23%) Marketing
10 3 (2.42%) Back Office
10 3 (2.42%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.61%) Automotive
11 2 (1.61%) Banking
11 2 (1.61%) Military
11 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (13.71%) Analyst
2 16 (12.90%) Project Manager
3 10 (8.06%) Senior
4 9 (7.26%) Consultant
5 8 (6.45%) Change Manager
6 6 (4.84%) Developer
6 6 (4.84%) IT Manager
6 6 (4.84%) Security Consultant
6 6 (4.84%) Security Specialist
7 5 (4.03%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 5 (4.03%) Security Analyst
7 5 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (4.03%) Telecoms Specialist
8 4 (3.23%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.23%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.23%) Lead
8 4 (3.23%) Security Advisor
9 3 (2.42%) Programme Director
9 3 (2.42%) Senior Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.23%) GWT
1 4 (3.23%) JAX-RS
1 4 (3.23%) JSON
1 4 (3.23%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (3.23%) REST
1 4 (3.23%) Restlet
1 4 (3.23%) SAML
1 4 (3.23%) Spring
1 4 (3.23%) Spring Boot
1 4 (3.23%) YAML
2 2 (1.61%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.35%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.45%) Operational Technology
3 5 (4.03%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (4.03%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.23%) Industry 4.0
4 4 (3.23%) Insider Threat
4 4 (3.23%) IoT
4 4 (3.23%) Robotics
5 3 (2.42%) PKI
5 3 (2.42%) SCADA
6 2 (1.61%) CCTV
6 2 (1.61%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.61%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.45%) Linux
2 4 (3.23%) CentOS
3 3 (2.42%) Windows
3 3 (2.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.81%) Risk Management
2 29 (23.39%) Information Security
3 23 (18.55%) Change Management
3 23 (18.55%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (12.90%) Agile
6 15 (12.10%) Decision-Making
7 13 (10.48%) Cloud Security
7 13 (10.48%) ITIL
7 13 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (8.87%) Collaborative Working
8 11 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (8.87%) GAP Analysis
9 10 (8.06%) Project Management
9 10 (8.06%) Security Architecture
10 9 (7.26%) Information Security Management
10 9 (7.26%) Security Management
11 8 (6.45%) Business Continuity
11 8 (6.45%) Migration
11 8 (6.45%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.84%) Java
2 4 (3.23%) PHP
3 2 (1.61%) Python
3 2 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (19.35%) Degree
2 23 (18.55%) Security Cleared
3 15 (12.10%) SC Cleared
4 14 (11.29%) CISSP
5 10 (8.06%) CISM
6 9 (7.26%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 6 (4.84%) CISA
8 6 (4.84%) CRISC
9 4 (3.23%) CGEIT
9 4 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 4 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (3.23%) MCSE
9 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.42%) PMP
10 3 (2.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (1.61%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (1.61%) CLAS
11 2 (1.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (10.48%) NIST
3 10 (8.06%) QA
4 5 (4.03%) GDPR
5 4 (3.23%) HIPAA
6 3 (2.42%) JSP 440
6 3 (2.42%) NCSC
7 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.61%) GRC
7 2 (1.61%) RMADS
8 1 (0.81%) COBIT
8 1 (0.81%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.81%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.81%) ITGC
8 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.42%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.42%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.23%) Ansible
2 4 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (3.23%) Terraform
3 3 (2.42%) SCCM
4 2 (1.61%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 18 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.06%) BT
3 8 (6.45%) Google
4 5 (4.03%) SAP
5 1 (0.81%) Ariba
5 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.81%) Qualys
5 1 (0.81%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.81%) Refinitiv