Impact Assessments Contracts

Impact Assessments
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Impact Assessments skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Impact Assessments over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 278 374
Rank change year-on-year -39 +96 -65
Contract jobs citing Impact Assessments 216 353 376
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.81% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.94% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 206 247
10th Percentile £354 £400 £356
25th Percentile £431 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £618 £625 £605
90th Percentile £650 £708 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 4
10th Percentile £26.59 - £58.58
25th Percentile £26.99 £12.25 £62.06
Median hourly rate £28.18 £24.67 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.21% -61.75% +81.05%
75th Percentile £28.85 £36.47 £65.00
90th Percentile £28.94 £37.18 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.18 £21.50 -
% change year-on-year +31.05% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Impact Assessments 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Impact Assessments
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Impact Assessments as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Impact Assessments in the UK

Impact Assessments
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Impact Assessments.

Daily rate trend for Impact Assessments in the UK

Impact Assessments
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Impact Assessments over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Impact Assessments in the UK

Impact Assessments
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Impact Assessments.

Hourly rate trend for Impact Assessments in the UK

Impact Assessments
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Impact Assessments within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England -21 179 £538 -2.27% 177
UK excluding London -1 112 £525 +5.00% 105
London +7 86 £538 -2.27% 87
Work from Home -2 69 £525 -4.55% 95
North of England +22 33 £525 -16.00% 21
North West +23 28 £484 -22.64% 16
South East +13 22 £545 +8.90% 32
Scotland +3 21 £400 -11.11% 11
Midlands +2 17 £525 +13.51% 20
South West +47 16 £500 -4.76% 8
West Midlands -4 12 £525 +10.53% 14
Yorkshire +5 5 £625 -2.34% 4
East of England +25 3 - - 8
East Midlands +6 3 £525 +16.67% 5

Impact Assessments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (5.09%) Confluence
2 6 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.46%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.09%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (5.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (2.31%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.93%) MultiFonds
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.93%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.46%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.46%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.46%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.72%) Azure
2 13 (6.02%) AWS
3 12 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 11 (5.09%) SaaS
5 10 (4.63%) PaaS
6 7 (3.24%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.78%) OCI
8 5 (2.31%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (1.85%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.85%) GCP
9 4 (1.85%) Serverless
10 3 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.39%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (1.39%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.39%) GitHub
10 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.94%) Firewall
2 14 (6.48%) WAN
3 12 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (4.63%) Cisco ISE
4 10 (4.63%) NetScaler
4 10 (4.63%) PBX
4 10 (4.63%) VoIP
5 3 (1.39%) Broadband
5 3 (1.39%) Converged Networks
5 3 (1.39%) LAN
5 3 (1.39%) Network Security
5 3 (1.39%) VPN
5 3 (1.39%) Wireless
6 2 (0.93%) 4G
6 2 (0.93%) 5G
7 1 (0.46%) ATM
7 1 (0.46%) Internet
7 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.56%) Power BI
2 5 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (2.31%) SAP HANA
3 4 (1.85%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (1.39%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.39%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.39%) Parquet
4 3 (1.39%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.39%) Tableau
5 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.93%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.93%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (0.93%) Metadata
5 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.46%) Looker
6 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.80%) JIRA
2 3 (1.39%) Git
3 2 (0.93%) Toad
3 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.46%) GitLab
4 1 (0.46%) Subversion
4 1 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 76 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 63 (29.17%) Finance
3 41 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (15.74%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.80%) Banking
5 19 (8.80%) Telecoms
6 16 (7.41%) Legal
7 13 (6.02%) Law
8 10 (4.63%) Marketing
9 9 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.24%) Military
10 7 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.78%) Back Office
12 5 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.39%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.39%) Retail
14 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.93%) Police
Job Titles
1 49 (22.69%) Analyst
2 33 (15.28%) Business Analyst
2 33 (15.28%) Change Manager
3 29 (13.43%) Lead
3 29 (13.43%) Senior
4 16 (7.41%) Business Manager
5 15 (6.94%) Network Engineer
6 14 (6.48%) Business Change Manager
7 13 (6.02%) Architect
7 13 (6.02%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.63%) Consultant
9 9 (4.17%) Data Analyst
9 9 (4.17%) Senior Manager
10 8 (3.70%) Developer
10 8 (3.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 8 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.24%) Information Manager
11 7 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (2.78%) Change Consultant
12 6 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.63%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.85%) JSON
3 3 (1.39%) .NET
3 3 (1.39%) AWS CDK
3 3 (1.39%) Kafka
3 3 (1.39%) Middleware
3 3 (1.39%) Web Services
4 2 (0.93%) ADO
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.93%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.46%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.46%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.46%) MIDP
5 1 (0.46%) RAML
5 1 (0.46%) React
5 1 (0.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.94%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.02%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.09%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (4.17%) Blackberry
4 9 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.78%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.39%) BYOD
7 3 (1.39%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.39%) CMDB
7 3 (1.39%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.39%) PMI
7 3 (1.39%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.39%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.93%) Life Science
8 2 (0.93%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.31%) Windows
2 3 (1.39%) Linux
3 2 (0.93%) Unix
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (22.69%) Change Management
2 46 (21.30%) Agile
2 46 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 37 (17.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 27 (12.50%) Project Management
6 25 (11.57%) Data Protection
6 25 (11.57%) Decision-Making
7 24 (11.11%) Migration
8 22 (10.19%) Roadmaps
9 20 (9.26%) Risk Management
10 19 (8.80%) Validation
11 18 (8.33%) ERP
11 18 (8.33%) Waterfall
12 17 (7.87%) Business Analysis
12 17 (7.87%) Project Delivery
13 15 (6.94%) Analytics
13 15 (6.94%) Load Balancing
13 15 (6.94%) User Stories
13 15 (6.94%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.19%) SQL
2 10 (4.63%) Python
3 4 (1.85%) PL/SQL
4 3 (1.39%) Java
4 3 (1.39%) VB
5 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.93%) VB6
Qualifications
1 38 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 35 (16.20%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.33%) Degree
4 12 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (4.63%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.17%) CCNP
6 9 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 8 (3.70%) ISEB
8 5 (2.31%) CESG Certified Professional
8 5 (2.31%) CISSP
8 5 (2.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 4 (1.85%) APMG
9 4 (1.85%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.39%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.39%) CBAP
10 3 (1.39%) CCNA
10 3 (1.39%) IIBA
11 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.56%) GDPR
1 12 (5.56%) QA
2 6 (2.78%) PMO
3 5 (2.31%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.93%) ITGC
5 2 (0.93%) MiFID
6 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.46%) EMIR
6 1 (0.46%) GRC
6 1 (0.46%) IFRS
6 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.46%) PERC
6 1 (0.46%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (5.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.85%) Docker
3 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (11.57%) Cisco
2 22 (10.19%) Palo Alto
2 22 (10.19%) SAP
3 18 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 16 (7.41%) Oracle
5 12 (5.56%) VMware
6 10 (4.63%) Ericsson
6 10 (4.63%) F5
6 10 (4.63%) Juniper
6 10 (4.63%) Meraki
6 10 (4.63%) Nokia
7 9 (4.17%) Avaya
7 9 (4.17%) Ribbon
8 6 (2.78%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.31%) Workday
10 4 (1.85%) Concur
10 4 (1.85%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.39%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.39%) Google
12 2 (0.93%) Sun