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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 265 321
Rank change year-on-year +35 +56 +72
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 110 127 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.85% 0.63% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.74% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 68 82
10th Percentile £361 £300 £451
25th Percentile £447 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -9.13% +3.84%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £675
90th Percentile £638 £734 £773
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £606
% change year-on-year -4.55% -9.28% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 5
10th Percentile £31.43 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £59.73
Median hourly rate £61.50 £14.54 £72.40
Median % change year-on-year +322.94% -79.92% +10.53%
75th Percentile £73.30 - £72.98
90th Percentile £87.07 £31.65 £73.35
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £14.54 £70.50
% change year-on-year +352.18% -79.38% +7.63%

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 11,721 17,088 20,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.59% 84.28% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,221 14,248
10th Percentile £234 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,065 1,263
10th Percentile £14.08 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.49 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.69
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +33 35 £575 +6.48% 70
North of England +24 28 £500 +11.11% 47
North West +25 24 £500 +45.45% 30
Scotland -6 16 £464 -11.71% 28
South West +25 14 £610 +103.33% 24
Midlands +23 11 £447 +5.18% 47
East Midlands +15 6 £359 +2.43% 26
West Midlands +7 5 £525 +20.00% 20
East of England +27 3 £525 -8.70% 20
Northern Ireland - 3 £600 - 11
Yorkshire +17 2 £600 -40.00% 12
North East -6 2 £421 -26.78% 5
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 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.82%) CICS
2 2 (1.82%) TPMS
2 2 (1.82%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.91%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.73%) Azure
2 11 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (8.18%) IaaS
4 8 (7.27%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.64%) AWS
5 4 (3.64%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.82%) GCP
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.91%) OCI
7 1 (0.91%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.91%) PaaS
7 1 (0.91%) SaaS
7 1 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.27%) Firewall
2 13 (11.82%) Intrusion Detection
3 10 (9.09%) Network Security
4 3 (2.73%) DNS
5 2 (1.82%) LAN
5 2 (1.82%) WAN
6 1 (0.91%) 4G
6 1 (0.91%) 5G
6 1 (0.91%) ADSL
6 1 (0.91%) BGP
6 1 (0.91%) PBX
6 1 (0.91%) PSTN
6 1 (0.91%) SDH
6 1 (0.91%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.91%) SSL
6 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.91%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.91%) VoIP
6 1 (0.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.73%) Metadata
3 2 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.82%) DB2
3 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.91%) GIS
4 1 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.82%) Selenium
1 2 (1.82%) SOAtest
2 1 (0.91%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.91%) JIRA
2 1 (0.91%) Metasploit
General
1 38 (34.55%) Finance
2 26 (23.64%) Public Sector
2 26 (23.64%) Social Skills
3 21 (19.09%) Telecoms
4 18 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (10.00%) Banking
6 9 (8.18%) Legal
7 5 (4.55%) Electronics
7 5 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.55%) Marketing
7 5 (4.55%) Military
8 4 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.64%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.82%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.82%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.82%) Local Government
11 1 (0.91%) Automotive
11 1 (0.91%) Billing
11 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (16.36%) Project Manager
2 17 (15.45%) Senior
3 16 (14.55%) Architect
4 9 (8.18%) Analyst
5 8 (7.27%) Lead
5 8 (7.27%) Security Architect
6 7 (6.36%) Security Specialist
7 6 (5.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) Consultant
8 5 (4.55%) Information Specialist
8 5 (4.55%) Security Advisor
9 4 (3.64%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Security Manager
9 4 (3.64%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 3 (2.73%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 3 (2.73%) Information Security Specialist
10 3 (2.73%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 3 (2.73%) Senior Information Security Specialist
10 3 (2.73%) Senior Security Specialist
10 3 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (4.55%) JBoss Seam
3 2 (1.82%) J2EE
3 2 (1.82%) JSON
3 2 (1.82%) Web Services
3 2 (1.82%) XML
4 1 (0.91%) Kafka
4 1 (0.91%) OAuth
4 1 (0.91%) OpenID
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.36%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.64%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.64%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.64%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.73%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.82%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.82%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (1.82%) PKI
5 2 (1.82%) SCADA
5 2 (1.82%) VSAM
6 1 (0.91%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.00%) Windows
2 10 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.82%) Linux
3 2 (1.82%) Unix
4 1 (0.91%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.45%) Risk Management
2 31 (28.18%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (27.27%) Project Management
4 25 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (20.00%) Agile
7 19 (17.27%) Change Management
8 18 (16.36%) Decision-Making
8 18 (16.36%) Information Security
9 17 (15.45%) Security Architecture
10 15 (13.64%) Project Delivery
11 14 (12.73%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 14 (12.73%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 13 (11.82%) Budget Management
12 13 (11.82%) Business Continuity
12 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 11 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
13 11 (10.00%) PRINCE2
14 10 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.55%) Java
3 2 (1.82%) COBOL
3 2 (1.82%) JCL
3 2 (1.82%) Python
3 2 (1.82%) REXX
4 1 (0.91%) Bash
Qualifications
1 40 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 21 (19.09%) DV Cleared
3 13 (11.82%) CISM
3 13 (11.82%) SC Cleared
4 12 (10.91%) CISSP
5 10 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (8.18%) Degree
7 8 (7.27%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (3.64%) CEH
9 4 (3.64%) CRISC
10 3 (2.73%) CISA
10 3 (2.73%) ISACA
10 3 (2.73%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.82%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.82%) MCSE
11 2 (1.82%) PMP
11 2 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (11.82%) NIST
3 8 (7.27%) NCSC
4 5 (4.55%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.64%) JSP 440
5 4 (3.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (2.73%) GRC
6 3 (2.73%) NIST 800
6 3 (2.73%) QA
6 3 (2.73%) SLA
7 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.82%) GDPR
7 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (1.82%) PMO
8 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.91%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.91%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 11 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (7.27%) vSphere
3 5 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.82%) SCCM
4 1 (0.91%) Ansible
4 1 (0.91%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.91%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.91%) Grafana
4 1 (0.91%) Podman
4 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.91%) Microsoft
1 12 (10.91%) VMware
2 5 (4.55%) Darktrace
3 4 (3.64%) SAP
3 4 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.73%) Cisco
4 3 (2.73%) Oracle
5 2 (1.82%) Ab Initio
5 2 (1.82%) Fujitsu
5 2 (1.82%) Informatica
5 2 (1.82%) Nokia
5 2 (1.82%) Parasoft
5 2 (1.82%) Splunk
6 1 (0.91%) F5
6 1 (0.91%) Google
6 1 (0.91%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.91%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.91%) Planview
6 1 (0.91%) Qualys
6 1 (0.91%) Tenable