Risk Analysis Contracts

Risk Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Risk Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Risk Analysis over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 580 656
Rank change year-on-year +78 +76 -81
Contract jobs citing Risk Analysis 89 127 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.23% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 86 138
10th Percentile £220 £388 £274
25th Percentile £413 £493 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £600 £531
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +12.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £655 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £838 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% +23.53% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 2
10th Percentile £43.75 £22.17 £59.06
25th Percentile £48.13 £46.75 £63.27
Median hourly rate £50.00 £83.31 £70.91
Median % change year-on-year -39.98% +17.50% +18.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £77.92
90th Percentile £83.40 £83.40 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £83.31 £70.91
% change year-on-year -39.98% +17.50% +50.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Analysis 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,683 54,210 80,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.89% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,351 37,527 56,743
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,790 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.07 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%

Risk Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Risk Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Analysis in the UK

Risk Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Analysis.

Daily rate trend for Risk Analysis in the UK

Risk Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Analysis over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Analysis in the UK

Risk Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Analysis.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Analysis in the UK

Risk Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Analysis over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Analysis in the UK

Risk Analysis
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +80 80 £505 -15.83% 79
London +70 44 £505 -15.83% 35
UK excluding London +48 36 £420 -20.00% 51
Work from Home +109 27 £556 -7.29% 39
South West +18 15 £519 -1.19% 11
South East +16 9 £170 -70.43% 6
North of England +28 5 £545 +9.00% 9
Scotland +36 4 £600 -2.04% 9
Yorkshire +21 3 - - 5
East of England +17 2 £369 -32.95% 4
North West +14 2 £545 +24.57% 4
West Midlands +37 1 - - 7
Midlands +36 1 - - 9
Wales +14 1 £380 -15.56% 3
North East - 1 - -

Risk Analysis
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 5 (5.62%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.12%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Primavera
2 3 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.12%) SAP EHS
3 1 (1.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.49%) Azure
1 4 (4.49%) GCP
2 2 (2.25%) AWS
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.12%) IaaS
3 1 (1.12%) Mimecast
3 1 (1.12%) PaaS
3 1 (1.12%) SaaS
3 1 (1.12%) Serverless
3 1 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.62%) Network Security
2 3 (3.37%) Firewall
2 3 (3.37%) VoIP
3 2 (2.25%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.12%) DHCP
4 1 (1.12%) DNS
4 1 (1.12%) FTP
4 1 (1.12%) HTTP
4 1 (1.12%) LAN
4 1 (1.12%) OSPF
4 1 (1.12%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (1.12%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.12%) VLAN
4 1 (1.12%) VPN
4 1 (1.12%) WAN
4 1 (1.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) Big Data
1 4 (4.49%) BigQuery
2 2 (2.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.12%) Balsamiq
2 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.12%) Git
2 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 24 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.84%) Finance
3 18 (20.22%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.48%) Public Sector
5 11 (12.36%) Banking
6 8 (8.99%) Investment Banking
6 8 (8.99%) Retail
7 5 (5.62%) Corporate Banking
7 5 (5.62%) Retail Banking
7 5 (5.62%) Wholesale Banking
8 3 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.37%) Local Government
9 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.12%) Law
10 1 (1.12%) Legal
10 1 (1.12%) Military
10 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (16.85%) Analyst
2 11 (12.36%) Architect
3 9 (10.11%) Senior
4 7 (7.87%) Project Manager
5 6 (6.74%) Consultant
5 6 (6.74%) Developer
5 6 (6.74%) Network Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Security Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Security Specialist
5 6 (6.74%) Test Architect
6 5 (5.62%) Qualitative Analyst
6 5 (5.62%) Quantitative Analyst
6 5 (5.62%) Senior Architect
6 5 (5.62%) Senior Test Architect
7 4 (4.49%) Information Security Specialist
7 4 (4.49%) Information Specialist
7 4 (4.49%) Security Architect
7 4 (4.49%) Transformation Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Transformation Project Manager
8 3 (3.37%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.25%) .NET
1 2 (2.25%) Java Concurrency
1 2 (2.25%) Kafka
1 2 (2.25%) React
2 1 (1.12%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.12%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.12%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.12%) CSS
2 1 (1.12%) EDI
2 1 (1.12%) HTML
2 1 (1.12%) LDAP
2 1 (1.12%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.12%) SAML
2 1 (1.12%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.35%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.99%) Credit Risk
3 6 (6.74%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.49%) Wiki
6 3 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.37%) Derivative
6 3 (3.37%) Market Risk
6 3 (3.37%) NHS
7 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.12%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.12%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.12%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (25.84%) Risk Management
2 16 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (16.85%) Information Security
4 14 (15.73%) Project Management
5 11 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (12.36%) Decision-Making
5 11 (12.36%) Risk Register
6 10 (11.24%) Agile
6 10 (11.24%) Change Management
7 9 (10.11%) Computer Science
8 8 (8.99%) Earned Value Management
8 8 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (7.87%) Analytics
9 7 (7.87%) Cost Management
9 7 (7.87%) Data Protection
9 7 (7.87%) Information Assurance
9 7 (7.87%) Performance Measurement
10 6 (6.74%) Business Case
10 6 (6.74%) Credit Risk Analysis
10 6 (6.74%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.24%) Python
2 6 (6.74%) SQL
3 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.25%) C#
4 2 (2.25%) Haskell
4 2 (2.25%) Java
4 2 (2.25%) Scala
5 1 (1.12%) ABAP
5 1 (1.12%) Perl
5 1 (1.12%) R
5 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.73%) CISSP
4 11 (12.36%) Degree
5 7 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (6.74%) CISM
6 6 (6.74%) ISTQB
7 4 (4.49%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.37%) CEH
8 3 (3.37%) CISA
8 3 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.25%) CCNA
9 2 (2.25%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (2.25%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (2.25%) SANS
10 1 (1.12%) ECSA
10 1 (1.12%) GAWN
10 1 (1.12%) GREM
10 1 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) NCSC
2 7 (7.87%) GDPR
2 7 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.74%) QA
4 5 (5.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (4.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 4 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (3.37%) GRC
6 3 (3.37%) PMO
7 2 (2.25%) GxP
7 2 (2.25%) NIST
7 2 (2.25%) RMADS
8 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.12%) ISO 22301
8 1 (1.12%) ISO 31000
8 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.62%) Terraform
2 1 (1.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (1.12%) CSIRT
2 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.87%) SAP
3 6 (6.74%) Cisco
4 4 (4.49%) Google
5 2 (2.25%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.25%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.12%) Ariba
6 1 (1.12%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.12%) Concur
6 1 (1.12%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.12%) F5
6 1 (1.12%) NEC
6 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.12%) Skytap
6 1 (1.12%) Thycotic