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 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 305 399
Rank change year-on-year +25 +94 -50
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 122 125 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.55% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.62% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 82 77
10th Percentile £300 £463 £334
25th Percentile £450 £502 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £613 £673 £638
90th Percentile £730 £748 £714
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.21% +4.39% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 3
10th Percentile - £51.03 £60.67
25th Percentile - £59.73 £63.17
Median hourly rate £14.54 £72.40 £68.58
Median % change year-on-year -79.92% +5.56% +4.82%
75th Percentile £31.65 £73.59 £70.46
90th Percentile £56.25 £73.79 £70.83
UK median hourly rate £14.54 £72.40 £68.58
% change year-on-year -79.92% +5.56% +4.82%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +9 43 £589 -3.48% 53
Scotland +63 28 £525 +8.64% 22
South West +2 27 £300 -51.02% 39
North of England +13 17 £344 -37.50% 66
North West +19 13 £238 -60.42% 49
Midlands +14 5 £438 -8.85% 38
West Midlands +14 4 £450 -6.25% 24
East of England +2 3 £563 +2.27% 27
North East - 3 £575 - 7
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Yorkshire +3 1 - - 11
East Midlands - 1 £350 - 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 4 (3.28%) Apache Solr
1 4 (3.28%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.10%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (9.84%) Azure
2 11 (9.02%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (6.56%) GCP
3 8 (6.56%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.64%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.82%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.82%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (0.82%) AWS
6 1 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.82%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.82%) Rekognition
6 1 (0.82%) Serverless
6 1 (0.82%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.66%) Firewall
2 7 (5.74%) BGP
2 7 (5.74%) MPLS
3 4 (3.28%) DNS
3 4 (3.28%) HTTPS
3 4 (3.28%) IPsec
3 4 (3.28%) Network Security
3 4 (3.28%) SSL
3 4 (3.28%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.46%) LTE
5 2 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.82%) GPRS
6 1 (0.82%) Internet
6 1 (0.82%) SDH
6 1 (0.82%) VSAT
6 1 (0.82%) WAN
6 1 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.28%) Couchbase
1 4 (3.28%) MySQL
1 4 (3.28%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.46%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.82%) IDMS
3 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (5.74%) JIRA
General
1 30 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.31%) Telecoms
3 24 (19.67%) Finance
4 21 (17.21%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (6.56%) Legal
7 7 (5.74%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.10%) Police
9 4 (3.28%) Banking
10 3 (2.46%) Back Office
10 3 (2.46%) Electronics
10 3 (2.46%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.64%) Automotive
11 2 (1.64%) Marketing
11 2 (1.64%) Military
11 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (12.30%) Analyst
1 15 (12.30%) Project Manager
1 15 (12.30%) Senior
2 9 (7.38%) Consultant
3 7 (5.74%) IP Engineer
3 7 (5.74%) Security Consultant
3 7 (5.74%) Senior IP Engineer
3 7 (5.74%) Senior Test Engineer
3 7 (5.74%) Test Engineer
4 6 (4.92%) Security Specialist
5 5 (4.10%) Business Analyst
5 5 (4.10%) Coordinator
5 5 (4.10%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 5 (4.10%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 5 (4.10%) Developer
5 5 (4.10%) Lead
5 5 (4.10%) Telecoms Specialist
6 4 (3.28%) Change Manager
6 4 (3.28%) Java Developer
6 4 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.28%) GWT
1 4 (3.28%) JAX-RS
1 4 (3.28%) JSON
1 4 (3.28%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (3.28%) REST
1 4 (3.28%) Restlet
1 4 (3.28%) SAML
1 4 (3.28%) Spring
1 4 (3.28%) Spring Boot
1 4 (3.28%) YAML
2 1 (0.82%) .NET
2 1 (0.82%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.85%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.56%) Operational Technology
3 7 (5.74%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.10%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.28%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.28%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (3.28%) Insider Threat
6 4 (3.28%) IoT
6 4 (3.28%) PKI
6 4 (3.28%) Robotics
7 3 (2.46%) FMCG
7 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.46%) SCADA
8 2 (1.64%) CCTV
8 2 (1.64%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.64%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (1.64%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.82%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.56%) Linux
2 4 (3.28%) CentOS
2 4 (3.28%) Windows
2 4 (3.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (22.13%) Risk Management
2 25 (20.49%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (19.67%) Information Security
4 22 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (16.39%) Agile
6 15 (12.30%) Decision-Making
7 13 (10.66%) GAP Analysis
7 13 (10.66%) Migration
7 13 (10.66%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (9.84%) Change Management
8 12 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (9.84%) ITIL
9 11 (9.02%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (9.02%) Project Management
9 11 (9.02%) Threat Modelling
10 8 (6.56%) Cloud Security
10 8 (6.56%) Penetration Testing
10 8 (6.56%) Project Delivery
10 8 (6.56%) Security Management
10 8 (6.56%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.10%) Java
2 4 (3.28%) PHP
3 1 (0.82%) Python
3 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (19.67%) Degree
2 21 (17.21%) Security Cleared
3 15 (12.30%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.02%) CISSP
5 7 (5.74%) CISM
5 7 (5.74%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 7 (5.74%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (4.92%) CISA
6 6 (4.92%) MCSE
6 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (4.10%) CRISC
8 4 (3.28%) CGEIT
8 4 (3.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (2.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.64%) PMP
11 1 (0.82%) CLAS
11 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (8.20%) NIST
3 9 (7.38%) QA
4 4 (3.28%) GDPR
4 4 (3.28%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.64%) GRC
5 2 (1.64%) NCSC
6 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.82%) COBIT
6 1 (0.82%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.82%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.82%) ITGC
6 1 (0.82%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.82%) PMO
6 1 (0.82%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (3.28%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.28%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.10%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.28%) Ansible
2 4 (3.28%) SCCM
2 4 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (3.28%) Terraform
3 3 (2.46%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 1 (0.82%) Grafana
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (10.66%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.20%) BT
3 8 (6.56%) Google
4 7 (5.74%) Juniper
5 4 (3.28%) SAP
6 3 (2.46%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.46%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.82%) Qualys
7 1 (0.82%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.82%) Remedy