Risk Assessment Contracts

Risk Assessment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Risk Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Assessment 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 306 327 440
Rank change year-on-year +21 +113 +104
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 232 272 288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 0.62% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.72% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 177 173
10th Percentile £358 £354 £453
25th Percentile £431 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -8.16% +6.52%
75th Percentile £620 £700 £700
90th Percentile £688 £793 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £523 £575
% change year-on-year +0.48% -9.13% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 7
10th Percentile £35.24 - £45.07
25th Percentile £51.25 - £59.73
Median hourly rate £61.50 £14.54 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year +322.94% -79.38% +18.49%
75th Percentile £79.60 £31.87 £72.98
90th Percentile £85.35 £53.93 £73.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £14.54 £72.40
% change year-on-year +322.94% -79.92% +21.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Assessment 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%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
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 Assessment 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 +30 201 £525 -8.70% 345
UK excluding London +52 112 £525 +0.48% 213
London +18 100 £538 -14.00% 184
Work from Home +18 75 £506 -11.96% 175
South East +45 41 £575 +6.48% 63
North of England +22 24 £500 +11.11% 48
North West +21 20 £495 +10.00% 26
Scotland +10 20 £464 -19.39% 19
South West +30 15 £585 +37.65% 18
Midlands +28 11 £447 -0.67% 39
West Midlands +16 6 £525 +8.81% 16
East Midlands +14 5 £315 -10.00% 22
Yorkshire +8 2 £600 -40.00% 15
North East -1 2 £421 -26.78% 7
East of England +30 1 £406 -29.39% 14

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 9 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.16%) Confluence
3 3 (1.29%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.86%) CICS
4 2 (0.86%) TPMS
4 2 (0.86%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.29%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.43%) Endur
3 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.43%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 41 (17.67%) Azure
2 24 (10.34%) AWS
3 15 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (4.74%) Entra ID
4 11 (4.74%) IaaS
5 8 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (3.45%) GCP
6 7 (3.02%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.59%) OCI
8 4 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.72%) GitHub
8 4 (1.72%) SaaS
8 4 (1.72%) Serverless
9 3 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (1.29%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.29%) PaaS
9 3 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (15.95%) Firewall
2 22 (9.48%) Network Security
3 15 (6.47%) Intrusion Detection
4 8 (3.45%) SSL
5 7 (3.02%) DNS
6 5 (2.16%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.72%) FTP
7 4 (1.72%) HTTP
7 4 (1.72%) LAN
7 4 (1.72%) SMTP
7 4 (1.72%) VPN
7 4 (1.72%) WAN
8 1 (0.43%) ADSL
8 1 (0.43%) BGP
8 1 (0.43%) PBX
8 1 (0.43%) PSTN
8 1 (0.43%) RTP
8 1 (0.43%) SDH
8 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.29%) Metadata
3 2 (0.86%) DB2
3 2 (0.86%) EDMS
3 2 (0.86%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.43%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.43%) GIS
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.43%) Power BI
4 1 (0.43%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (6.47%) JIRA
2 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.86%) Selenium
3 2 (0.86%) SOAtest
4 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.43%) GitLab
4 1 (0.43%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.43%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 68 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 62 (26.72%) Finance
3 43 (18.53%) Public Sector
4 37 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (10.34%) Telecoms
6 17 (7.33%) Banking
7 15 (6.47%) Legal
8 8 (3.45%) Military
9 7 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.02%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.59%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.59%) Marketing
10 6 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.16%) Electronics
11 5 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.29%) Local Government
12 3 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.86%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (14.66%) Architect
2 28 (12.07%) Consultant
3 27 (11.64%) Senior
4 26 (11.21%) Analyst
5 25 (10.78%) Security Architect
6 24 (10.34%) Project Manager
7 20 (8.62%) Security Consultant
8 15 (6.47%) Security Specialist
9 13 (5.60%) Lead
10 10 (4.31%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.88%) Business Analyst
12 8 (3.45%) Security Manager
13 7 (3.02%) Information Specialist
13 7 (3.02%) Security Advisor
13 7 (3.02%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 6 (2.59%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 6 (2.59%) Senior Security Specialist
15 5 (2.16%) Information Security Consultant
15 5 (2.16%) Information Security Specialist
15 5 (2.16%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (2.59%) OAuth
2 6 (2.59%) OpenID
2 6 (2.59%) SAML
3 5 (2.16%) JBoss Seam
4 4 (1.72%) .NET
5 2 (0.86%) J2EE
5 2 (0.86%) JSON
5 2 (0.86%) Web Services
5 2 (0.86%) XML
6 1 (0.43%) Kafka
6 1 (0.43%) Middleware
6 1 (0.43%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.43%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.43%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.43%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (0.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.09%) Management Information System
2 24 (10.34%) Security Posture
3 12 (5.17%) Operational Technology
4 11 (4.74%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (4.31%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.72%) PKI
7 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.29%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.29%) Derivative
8 3 (1.29%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.29%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.29%) Life Science
8 3 (1.29%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.29%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.29%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.47%) Windows
2 12 (5.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.72%) Linux
4 2 (0.86%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (36.64%) Risk Management
2 72 (31.03%) Cybersecurity
3 56 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (20.69%) Project Management
5 45 (19.40%) Agile
6 44 (18.97%) Information Security
7 37 (15.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 33 (14.22%) Decision-Making
10 29 (12.50%) Change Management
11 27 (11.64%) Incident Response
11 27 (11.64%) Security Architecture
11 27 (11.64%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 24 (10.34%) Threat Modelling
13 23 (9.91%) Cloud Security
13 23 (9.91%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 20 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (8.19%) DevOps
16 18 (7.76%) Business Continuity
16 18 (7.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (6.47%) Python
2 14 (6.03%) PowerShell
3 12 (5.17%) Java
4 6 (2.59%) C#
5 5 (2.16%) Bash
6 2 (0.86%) COBOL
6 2 (0.86%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.86%) JCL
6 2 (0.86%) REXX
6 2 (0.86%) SQL
7 1 (0.43%) C++
7 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.43%) R
7 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 65 (28.02%) Security Cleared
2 42 (18.10%) CISSP
3 35 (15.09%) Degree
4 33 (14.22%) CISM
5 30 (12.93%) SC Cleared
6 26 (11.21%) DV Cleared
7 15 (6.47%) Azure Certification
8 14 (6.03%) CRISC
9 11 (4.74%) CISA
10 10 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (3.45%) AWS Certification
13 7 (3.02%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (2.59%) CEH
14 6 (2.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 6 (2.59%) OCP
14 6 (2.59%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (2.59%) PMI Certification
15 5 (2.16%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (2.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (23.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 53 (22.84%) NIST
3 17 (7.33%) GDPR
3 17 (7.33%) NCSC
4 12 (5.17%) GRC
4 12 (5.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (3.88%) QA
6 7 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 7 (3.02%) NIST 800
6 7 (3.02%) SLA
7 6 (2.59%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.59%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.72%) EU AI Act
8 4 (1.72%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.72%) JSP 440
9 3 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (1.29%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.29%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (6.03%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (3.45%) vSphere
3 7 (3.02%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.29%) Docker
5 1 (0.43%) IAG
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (4.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (3.02%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.72%) SCCM
4 2 (0.86%) Terraform
5 1 (0.43%) Ansible
5 1 (0.43%) CASB
5 1 (0.43%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.43%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Nessus
5 1 (0.43%) Podman
5 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.17%) VMware
3 11 (4.74%) Qualys
4 10 (4.31%) Oracle
5 8 (3.45%) SAP
5 8 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.02%) Tenable
7 6 (2.59%) Planview
8 5 (2.16%) Darktrace
9 4 (1.72%) Okta
9 4 (1.72%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.29%) Ariba
10 3 (1.29%) Cisco
10 3 (1.29%) Google
11 2 (0.86%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.86%) Fujitsu
11 2 (0.86%) Informatica
11 2 (0.86%) Nokia
11 2 (0.86%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.86%) Splunk