Risk Analysis Contracts

Risk Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Risk Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 483 569
Rank change year-on-year +46 +86 +78
Contract jobs citing Risk Analysis 72 88 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.21% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.24% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 49 79
10th Percentile £475 £222 £360
25th Percentile £513 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -14.53% +6.36%
75th Percentile £733 £650 £648
90th Percentile £828 £750 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £380 £513
% change year-on-year +44.74% -25.85% +19.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile £34.47 £39.15 £22.20
25th Percentile - £46.25 £55.89
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £83.31
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -39.98% +44.89%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £83.38
90th Percentile £70.05 £68.68 £83.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £83.31
% change year-on-year -20.00% -39.98% +44.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Analysis 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 26,620 36,673 51,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.13% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,067 23,631 35,432
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 2,440 1,683
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £16.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 19 May 2025.

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 19 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Analysis in the UK

Risk Analysis
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 Risk Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +40 65 £600 +21.52% 146
London +37 37 £675 +33.66% 83
UK excluding London +51 33 £550 +44.74% 83
Work from Home +36 14 £563 +1.12% 78
North of England +25 11 £569 - 19
South East +36 9 £523 +207.35% 38
North West +22 9 £575 - 8
East of England +25 5 - - 3
Scotland +6 4 £355 -40.83% 8
West Midlands - 2 £663 - 1
Midlands - 2 £663 - 8
North East - 2 £550 - 6
South West +29 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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:

Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Primavera
2 2 (2.78%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.78%) SAP ECC
2 2 (2.78%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.78%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.39%) Endur
3 1 (1.39%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.17%) Azure
2 13 (18.06%) AWS
3 8 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.56%) GCP
5 2 (2.78%) Akamai
5 2 (2.78%) Azure Stack
5 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.39%) GitHub
6 1 (1.39%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.39%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.72%) Ethernet
1 7 (9.72%) Firewall
2 5 (6.94%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.78%) Network Security
4 1 (1.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
1 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.17%) Redis
2 2 (2.78%) Big Data
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (1.39%) Power BI
3 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (41.67%) Finance
2 27 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 23 (31.94%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (22.22%) Banking
5 9 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 8 (11.11%) Legal
7 5 (6.94%) Automotive
8 4 (5.56%) Front Office
9 3 (4.17%) Marketing
9 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.78%) Military
10 2 (2.78%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.39%) Japanese Language
11 1 (1.39%) Law
11 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Architect
2 17 (23.61%) Security Architect
3 13 (18.06%) Senior
4 11 (15.28%) Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Analyst
6 7 (9.72%) Lead
7 5 (6.94%) Business Analyst
7 5 (6.94%) Security Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) IT Architect
8 4 (5.56%) IT Security Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Senior Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Senior Security Architect
9 3 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) FPGA Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Lead Java Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Senior FPGA Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) .NET
2 4 (5.56%) WPF
3 3 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (4.17%) Java Concurrency
3 3 (4.17%) Kafka
4 2 (2.78%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.39%) ADO
5 1 (1.39%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.39%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) Market Risk
2 8 (11.11%) Derivative
3 7 (9.72%) Algorithms
3 7 (9.72%) Security Posture
4 5 (6.94%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.17%) FPGA
5 3 (4.17%) PCIe
5 3 (4.17%) Verilog
5 3 (4.17%) VHDL
6 2 (2.78%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.78%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.78%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.78%) Social Media
7 1 (1.39%) CESG
7 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) PMI
7 1 (1.39%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Android
1 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.67%) Risk Management
2 28 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (26.39%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (19.44%) DevOps
4 14 (19.44%) Project Management
4 14 (19.44%) Security Architecture
5 13 (18.06%) Agile
6 12 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 11 (15.28%) Analytics
7 11 (15.28%) Computer Science
7 11 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (13.89%) Machine Learning
9 9 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (12.50%) Decision-Making
9 9 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 8 (11.11%) Architectural Design
10 8 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (11.11%) Mathematics
11 7 (9.72%) BDD
11 7 (9.72%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.50%) Python
2 5 (6.94%) C#
2 5 (6.94%) SQL
3 4 (5.56%) Haskell
3 4 (5.56%) Java
4 3 (4.17%) SystemVerilog
4 3 (4.17%) Tcl
5 2 (2.78%) Bash
5 2 (2.78%) C++
5 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.39%) PHP
6 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (26.39%) Degree
2 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
3 12 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 9 (12.50%) CISSP
5 8 (11.11%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (8.33%) CISM
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
8 3 (4.17%) CRISC
8 3 (4.17%) PMP
9 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.39%) CCNA
10 1 (1.39%) CEH
10 1 (1.39%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (1.39%) CISA
10 1 (1.39%) ISACA
10 1 (1.39%) MRICS
10 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.83%) GDPR
2 13 (18.06%) NIST
3 11 (15.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (11.11%) PCI DSS
5 5 (6.94%) HIPAA
6 4 (5.56%) GRC
7 3 (4.17%) AUTOSAR
7 3 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (4.17%) QA
8 1 (1.39%) COBIT
8 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.39%) EU AI Act
8 1 (1.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (1.39%) JSP 440
8 1 (1.39%) NCSC
8 1 (1.39%) NIST 800
8 1 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Ansible
1 1 (1.39%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (1.39%) Grafana
1 1 (1.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) SAP
3 3 (4.17%) F5
3 3 (4.17%) Intel
3 3 (4.17%) Xilinx
4 2 (2.78%) Databricks
4 2 (2.78%) Google
4 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.78%) Sun
5 1 (1.39%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.39%) Ariba
5 1 (1.39%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.39%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (1.39%) Siemens
5 1 (1.39%) VMware