Risk Assessment Contracts

Risk Assessment
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 440 552
Rank change year-on-year +120 +112 -76
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 273 291 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.49% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.55% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 181 190
10th Percentile £342 £450 £363
25th Percentile £450 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -11.06% +6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile - £45.07 £43.68
25th Percentile - £59.73 £51.76
Median hourly rate £14.54 £70.50 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year -79.38% +9.73% -0.39%
75th Percentile £31.87 £72.98 £70.14
90th Percentile £53.93 £73.23 £73.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.54 £72.40 £64.25
% change year-on-year -79.92% +12.68% +0.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Assessment 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 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Assessment over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 May 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 +86 229 £575 -8.00% 336
UK excluding London +56 123 £523 -11.06% 238
London +108 121 £625 -3.85% 129
Work from Home +119 98 £575 -4.17% 143
South East +16 44 £540 -17.87% 53
South West +26 29 £300 -52.00% 29
Scotland +45 23 £575 +24.32% 34
North of England +31 21 £450 -21.74% 64
North West +33 16 £450 -26.53% 40
Midlands +25 4 £438 -10.71% 31
West Midlands +13 3 £450 -8.16% 22
North East - 3 £575 - 6
Yorkshire +15 2 £1,000 +81.82% 18
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East of England +3 1 £575 +12.20% 26
Wales - 1 £450 - 5
East Midlands - 1 £350 - 9

Risk Assessment
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 (1.83%) Confluence
2 4 (1.47%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.47%) nginx
3 1 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 16 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.83%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.37%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 31 (11.36%) Azure
2 22 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (5.49%) AWS
3 15 (5.49%) GCP
4 8 (2.93%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.47%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.10%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.10%) SaaS
8 2 (0.73%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.73%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (0.73%) Google App Engine
8 2 (0.73%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (0.73%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.73%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.26%) Firewall
2 21 (7.69%) Network Security
3 13 (4.76%) WAN
4 12 (4.40%) SD-WAN
5 8 (2.93%) MPLS
6 6 (2.20%) DNS
6 6 (2.20%) IPsec
6 6 (2.20%) SNMP
7 4 (1.47%) BGP
7 4 (1.47%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.47%) PBX
7 4 (1.47%) PSTN
7 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.47%) VoIP
7 4 (1.47%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.10%) LTE
8 3 (1.10%) SSL
8 3 (1.10%) Wireless
9 2 (0.73%) LAN
9 2 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.47%) Couchbase
1 4 (1.47%) MySQL
1 4 (1.47%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.47%) Power BI
2 2 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
2 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.73%) Data Vault
2 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.37%) Big Data
3 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.66%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) ClearCase
2 1 (0.37%) ClearQuest
2 1 (0.37%) Git
2 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.37%) RStudio
General
1 75 (27.47%) Finance
2 56 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 25 (9.16%) Telecoms
6 15 (5.49%) Banking
7 12 (4.40%) Legal
8 9 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.30%) Local Government
8 9 (3.30%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.83%) Police
10 4 (1.47%) Advertising
10 4 (1.47%) Automotive
10 4 (1.47%) Electronics
10 4 (1.47%) Fire and Rescue
10 4 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.10%) Back Office
11 3 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (13.92%) Analyst
2 36 (13.19%) Architect
3 31 (11.36%) Project Manager
4 27 (9.89%) Security Architect
5 23 (8.42%) Senior
6 21 (7.69%) Consultant
7 16 (5.86%) Lead
7 16 (5.86%) Security Consultant
8 13 (4.76%) Business Analyst
9 12 (4.40%) Security Engineer
10 11 (4.03%) Developer
10 11 (4.03%) Risk Analyst
10 11 (4.03%) Security Specialist
11 9 (3.30%) Risk Manager
11 9 (3.30%) Security Analyst
12 8 (2.93%) IT Manager
12 8 (2.93%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 7 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
13 7 (2.56%) Java Developer
13 7 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.56%) GWT
1 7 (2.56%) JAX-RS
1 7 (2.56%) REST
1 7 (2.56%) Restlet
1 7 (2.56%) SAML
1 7 (2.56%) Spring
1 7 (2.56%) Spring Boot
2 4 (1.47%) JSON
2 4 (1.47%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.47%) YAML
3 2 (0.73%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.73%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.37%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.36%) Management Information System
2 22 (8.06%) PKI
3 10 (3.66%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (3.30%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.56%) Insider Threat
6 7 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.20%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.47%) Industry 4.0
9 4 (1.47%) IoT
9 4 (1.47%) Robotics
9 4 (1.47%) SCADA
9 4 (1.47%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.73%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.73%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.30%) Linux
2 5 (1.83%) Windows
3 4 (1.47%) CentOS
4 3 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (26.01%) Cybersecurity
2 63 (23.08%) Risk Management
3 56 (20.51%) Information Security
4 43 (15.75%) Agile
5 42 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (12.82%) Cloud Security
7 29 (10.62%) Project Management
7 29 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (10.26%) Change Management
9 26 (9.52%) Decision-Making
10 25 (9.16%) Security Architecture
11 24 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (8.06%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (8.06%) Penetration Testing
12 22 (8.06%) Security Management
13 21 (7.69%) Information Security Management
13 21 (7.69%) Migration
14 20 (7.33%) Collaborative Working
15 17 (6.23%) Information Assurance
15 17 (6.23%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.13%) Java
2 9 (3.30%) Python
3 5 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (1.47%) PHP
4 4 (1.47%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.10%) C#
6 2 (0.73%) C++
6 2 (0.73%) Go
6 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.37%) C
7 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 51 (18.68%) Degree
2 38 (13.92%) CISSP
3 37 (13.55%) Security Cleared
4 29 (10.62%) CISM
5 27 (9.89%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.13%) CISA
6 14 (5.13%) CRISC
7 11 (4.03%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.30%) PMP
9 8 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.93%) CREST Certified
9 8 (2.93%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (2.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 7 (2.56%) PMI Certification
11 6 (2.20%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.20%) SANS
12 5 (1.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.47%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (19.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (14.29%) NIST
3 21 (7.69%) NCSC
4 18 (6.59%) QA
5 12 (4.40%) GDPR
6 10 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 7 (2.56%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.83%) COBIT
8 5 (1.83%) GRC
8 5 (1.83%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.83%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.47%) ISO 31000
10 3 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (1.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.10%) JSP 440
10 3 (1.10%) PMO
10 3 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.73%) RMADS
System Software
1 7 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.10%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.83%) Terraform
4 4 (1.47%) Ansible
4 4 (1.47%) Functional Safety
4 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.10%) SCCM
6 2 (0.73%) Grafana
6 2 (0.73%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (0.73%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.37%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 43 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.76%) Google
3 10 (3.66%) BT
4 9 (3.30%) SAP
5 4 (1.47%) Ariba
5 4 (1.47%) Juniper
5 4 (1.47%) Qualys
6 3 (1.10%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.10%) Rapid7
6 3 (1.10%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.73%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.73%) Cisco
7 2 (0.73%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.73%) Remedy
7 2 (0.73%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.73%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.73%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.37%) EMC
8 1 (0.37%) HP
8 1 (0.37%) Salesforce