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 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 573 641
Rank change year-on-year +68 +68 -17
Contract jobs citing Risk Analysis 81 109 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.22% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 69 147
10th Percentile £214 £373 £313
25th Percentile £390 £475 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +6.82% +12.53%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £700
90th Percentile £700 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £525 £449
% change year-on-year -40.48% +16.93% +19.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 3
10th Percentile £38.07 £22.23 £28.36
25th Percentile £44.38 £65.03 £38.82
Median hourly rate £50.00 £83.31 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.98% +44.89% -4.17%
75th Percentile £54.06 £83.40 £71.53
90th Percentile £66.84 - £79.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £83.31 £57.50
% change year-on-year -39.98% +44.89% +21.69%

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 36,635 50,134 80,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.39% 89.72% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,488 34,705 56,273
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,523 1,664 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.51
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +8.91% +74.43% -4.45%

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 4 June 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 4 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Analysis in the UK

Risk Analysis
Top 12 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 4 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
England +71 72 £460 -21.90% 82
London +73 44 £505 -15.83% 36
UK excluding London +32 29 £313 -40.48% 46
Work from Home +115 27 £525 -12.50% 37
South East +24 10 £170 -70.43% 15
South West -1 8 - - 5
East of England +7 4 £369 -32.95% 4
Scotland +46 3 £575 - 4
North of England +28 3 - - 13
Yorkshire +12 2 - - 6
North West +4 1 - - 6
Wales - 1 £380 - 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 (6.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.23%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (9.88%) Primavera
2 3 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.23%) SAP EHS
3 1 (1.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.94%) Azure
1 4 (4.94%) GCP
2 2 (2.47%) AWS
2 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.23%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.23%) Mimecast
3 1 (1.23%) SaaS
3 1 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.17%) Network Security
2 4 (4.94%) Firewall
3 3 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.70%) VoIP
4 2 (2.47%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (2.47%) DHCP
4 2 (2.47%) DNS
4 2 (2.47%) FTP
4 2 (2.47%) HTTP
5 1 (1.23%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.23%) OSPF
5 1 (1.23%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.23%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.23%) VLAN
5 1 (1.23%) VPN
5 1 (1.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) Big Data
1 4 (4.94%) BigQuery
2 2 (2.47%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.23%) Balsamiq
2 1 (1.23%) Git
2 1 (1.23%) JIRA
2 1 (1.23%) Newman
2 1 (1.23%) Postman
General
1 21 (25.93%) Finance
2 20 (24.69%) Social Skills
3 19 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.58%) Banking
5 8 (9.88%) Investment Banking
5 8 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.88%) Retail
6 5 (6.17%) Corporate Banking
6 5 (6.17%) Retail Banking
6 5 (6.17%) Wholesale Banking
7 3 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Local Government
7 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.47%) Legal
8 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Environmental Health
9 1 (1.23%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.23%) Marketing
9 1 (1.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (16.05%) Analyst
2 8 (9.88%) Project Manager
3 7 (8.64%) Security Engineer
4 6 (7.41%) Consultant
4 6 (7.41%) Network Engineer
4 6 (7.41%) Security Specialist
5 5 (6.17%) Developer
5 5 (6.17%) Qualitative Analyst
5 5 (6.17%) Quantitative Analyst
6 4 (4.94%) Information Security Specialist
6 4 (4.94%) Information Specialist
6 4 (4.94%) Risk Manager
6 4 (4.94%) Senior
6 4 (4.94%) Transformation Manager
6 4 (4.94%) Transformation Project Manager
7 3 (3.70%) Architect
7 3 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Project Planner
7 3 (3.70%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.47%) .NET
1 2 (2.47%) Java Concurrency
1 2 (2.47%) Kafka
2 1 (1.23%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.23%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.23%) EDI
2 1 (1.23%) LDAP
2 1 (1.23%) React
2 1 (1.23%) REST
2 1 (1.23%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.23%) SAML
2 1 (1.23%) SOAP
2 1 (1.23%) Web Services
2 1 (1.23%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.64%) Credit Risk
3 6 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 5 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.94%) Wiki
6 3 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.70%) Derivative
6 3 (3.70%) NHS
7 2 (2.47%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.47%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.47%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.23%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.23%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.86%) Risk Management
2 17 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (19.75%) Project Management
4 14 (17.28%) Information Security
5 12 (14.81%) Decision-Making
5 12 (14.81%) Risk Register
6 11 (13.58%) Computer Science
6 11 (13.58%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (12.35%) Agile
8 8 (9.88%) Change Management
8 8 (9.88%) Earned Value Management
9 7 (8.64%) Analytics
9 7 (8.64%) Cost Management
9 7 (8.64%) Data Protection
9 7 (8.64%) Information Assurance
9 7 (8.64%) Performance Measurement
9 7 (8.64%) Project Delivery
10 6 (7.41%) Business Case
10 6 (7.41%) Credit Risk Analysis
10 6 (7.41%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.35%) Python
2 7 (8.64%) SQL
3 2 (2.47%) C#
3 2 (2.47%) Haskell
3 2 (2.47%) Java
3 2 (2.47%) Perl
3 2 (2.47%) Scala
4 1 (1.23%) ABAP
4 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.23%) R
4 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) CISSP
1 14 (17.28%) Degree
1 14 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.41%) CISM
5 4 (4.94%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (3.70%) CEH
6 3 (3.70%) CISA
6 3 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.47%) CCNA
7 2 (2.47%) GCIA
7 2 (2.47%) GCIH
7 2 (2.47%) GIAC
7 2 (2.47%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (2.47%) SANS
8 1 (1.23%) ECSA
8 1 (1.23%) GAWN
8 1 (1.23%) GCFE
8 1 (1.23%) GPPA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) GDPR
1 7 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (8.64%) NCSC
2 5 (6.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (3.70%) GRC
4 3 (3.70%) PMO
4 3 (3.70%) QA
5 2 (2.47%) GxP
5 2 (2.47%) NIST
6 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.23%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.23%) ISO 31000
6 1 (1.23%) RMADS
6 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.94%) Terraform
2 2 (2.47%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.64%) SAP
3 6 (7.41%) Cisco
4 4 (4.94%) Google
5 2 (2.47%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.23%) Ariba
6 1 (1.23%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.23%) Concur
6 1 (1.23%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.23%) F5
6 1 (1.23%) NEC
6 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.23%) Thycotic