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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 313 408
Rank change year-on-year +4 +95 +132
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 219 278 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 0.65% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.76% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 173 187
10th Percentile £365 £340 £456
25th Percentile £430 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £605
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -9.09% +9.26%
75th Percentile £620 £656 £700
90th Percentile £748 £773 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.29% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 8
10th Percentile £51.63 - £48.73
25th Percentile £59.31 - £59.73
Median hourly rate £70.00 £14.54 £72.40
Median % change year-on-year +381.43% -79.92% +10.53%
75th Percentile £83.20 £48.75 £73.59
90th Percentile £87.07 £66.30 £73.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.75 £14.54 £72.40
% change year-on-year +352.18% -79.92% +7.99%

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 26,538 36,713 50,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.00% 85.58% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,936 23,592 34,845
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
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% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 2,515 1,670
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%

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 31 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 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK

Risk Assessment
Top 16 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 31 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 +20 192 £537 -4.53% 169
UK excluding London +42 111 £537 +2.29% 135
London +17 92 £531 -9.19% 54
Work from Home +12 68 £500 -13.04% 97
South East +37 35 £575 +6.48% 30
North of England +27 28 £500 +11.17% 21
North West +19 23 £500 +45.45% 11
Scotland -5 17 £463 -11.90% 8
South West +28 14 £620 +106.67% 19
Midlands +20 12 £402 -8.11% 42
East Midlands +16 8 £402 +14.86% 16
West Midlands +13 4 £525 +16.67% 25
East of England +25 3 £525 -8.70% 7
Yorkshire +15 3 £600 -40.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £600 - 5
North East 0 2 £421 -26.78% 3

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 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.28%) Confluence
3 3 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.91%) CICS
4 2 (0.91%) TPMS
4 2 (0.91%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.37%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.46%) Endur
2 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.46%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 37 (16.89%) Azure
2 26 (11.87%) AWS
3 14 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (5.02%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.57%) IaaS
6 7 (3.20%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (3.20%) GCP
7 6 (2.74%) OCI
8 5 (2.28%) SaaS
9 4 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.83%) GitHub
9 4 (1.83%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.83%) Serverless
10 3 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (1.37%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (15.98%) Firewall
2 20 (9.13%) Network Security
3 16 (7.31%) Intrusion Detection
4 8 (3.65%) SSL
5 7 (3.20%) DNS
6 5 (2.28%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.83%) FTP
7 4 (1.83%) HTTP
7 4 (1.83%) SMTP
7 4 (1.83%) VPN
8 2 (0.91%) LAN
8 2 (0.91%) WAN
9 1 (0.46%) ADSL
9 1 (0.46%) BGP
9 1 (0.46%) MPLS
9 1 (0.46%) PBX
9 1 (0.46%) PSTN
9 1 (0.46%) SDH
9 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.46%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.37%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.37%) Metadata
4 2 (0.91%) DB2
4 2 (0.91%) EDMS
4 2 (0.91%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.46%) Big Data
5 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.46%) GIS
5 1 (0.46%) Power BI
5 1 (0.46%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (5.48%) JIRA
2 2 (0.91%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.91%) Selenium
2 2 (0.91%) SOAtest
3 1 (0.46%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.46%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.46%) Metasploit
General
1 67 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 66 (30.14%) Finance
3 41 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (17.81%) Public Sector
5 24 (10.96%) Banking
6 22 (10.05%) Telecoms
7 16 (7.31%) Legal
8 7 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.20%) Retail Banking
9 5 (2.28%) Electronics
9 5 (2.28%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.28%) Marketing
9 5 (2.28%) Military
10 4 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.37%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.91%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.91%) Law
12 2 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (15.07%) Architect
2 28 (12.79%) Analyst
3 22 (10.05%) Security Architect
3 22 (10.05%) Senior
4 21 (9.59%) Consultant
5 19 (8.68%) Project Manager
6 15 (6.85%) Lead
7 14 (6.39%) Security Consultant
8 10 (4.57%) Security Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Business Analyst
9 9 (4.11%) Security Manager
9 9 (4.11%) Security Specialist
10 8 (3.65%) Risk Manager
11 7 (3.20%) Risk Analyst
12 6 (2.74%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 6 (2.74%) Security Advisor
13 5 (2.28%) Information Security Consultant
13 5 (2.28%) Information Specialist
13 5 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
14 4 (1.83%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (2.74%) JBoss Seam
2 6 (2.74%) OAuth
2 6 (2.74%) OpenID
2 6 (2.74%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (2.74%) SAML
3 4 (1.83%) .NET
4 2 (0.91%) FIDO
4 2 (0.91%) J2EE
4 2 (0.91%) JSON
4 2 (0.91%) Web Services
4 2 (0.91%) XML
5 1 (0.46%) Kafka
5 1 (0.46%) Middleware
5 1 (0.46%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.46%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.46%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (0.46%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.46%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.61%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.22%) Security Posture
3 13 (5.94%) Operational Technology
4 9 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.65%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.83%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.83%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.37%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.37%) SCADA
10 3 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.91%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.91%) Mobile Payment
11 2 (0.91%) PKI
11 2 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.91%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.39%) Windows
2 11 (5.02%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.83%) Linux
4 2 (0.91%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (38.36%) Risk Management
2 72 (32.88%) Cybersecurity
3 54 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (21.92%) Agile
5 41 (18.72%) Project Management
6 39 (17.81%) Information Security
7 38 (17.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (16.44%) Decision-Making
9 32 (14.61%) Change Management
10 28 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (12.33%) Security Architecture
12 26 (11.87%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 23 (10.50%) Cloud Security
13 23 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (10.50%) Incident Response
13 23 (10.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 22 (10.05%) DevOps
14 22 (10.05%) Enterprise Architecture
15 21 (9.59%) Threat Modelling
16 18 (8.22%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.39%) PowerShell
2 13 (5.94%) Java
3 12 (5.48%) Python
4 6 (2.74%) C#
5 4 (1.83%) Bash
5 4 (1.83%) SQL
6 2 (0.91%) COBOL
6 2 (0.91%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.91%) JCL
6 2 (0.91%) REXX
7 1 (0.46%) C++
7 1 (0.46%) Korn
7 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.46%) R
7 1 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 70 (31.96%) Security Cleared
2 39 (17.81%) CISSP
3 33 (15.07%) SC Cleared
4 28 (12.79%) CISM
4 28 (12.79%) Degree
5 25 (11.42%) DV Cleared
6 15 (6.85%) Azure Certification
7 12 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.48%) CRISC
8 10 (4.57%) CISA
8 10 (4.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.65%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.65%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (2.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 6 (2.74%) OCP
10 6 (2.74%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (2.28%) CEH
11 5 (2.28%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.83%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (24.20%) NIST
2 51 (23.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (8.22%) GDPR
4 15 (6.85%) NCSC
5 12 (5.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (5.02%) GRC
7 9 (4.11%) Data Quality
7 9 (4.11%) QA
8 7 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 7 (3.20%) NIST 800
9 6 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (2.74%) SLA
9 6 (2.74%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.83%) EU AI Act
10 4 (1.83%) JSP 440
10 4 (1.83%) PCI DSS
11 3 (1.37%) Basel II
11 3 (1.37%) Basel III
11 3 (1.37%) HIPAA
11 3 (1.37%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 13 (5.94%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.65%) vSphere
3 7 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.83%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.37%) Docker
6 1 (0.46%) IAG
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.37%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.91%) SCCM
3 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.46%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) CASB
4 1 (0.46%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.46%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.46%) Grafana
4 1 (0.46%) Nessus
4 1 (0.46%) Podman
4 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.02%) VMware
3 9 (4.11%) SAP
4 8 (3.65%) Oracle
4 8 (3.65%) Qualys
4 8 (3.65%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.20%) Tenable
6 6 (2.74%) Darktrace
7 5 (2.28%) Okta
8 4 (1.83%) Ping Identity
8 4 (1.83%) Planview
9 3 (1.37%) Google
10 2 (0.91%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.91%) Ariba
10 2 (0.91%) Cisco
10 2 (0.91%) Fujitsu
10 2 (0.91%) Informatica
10 2 (0.91%) Nokia
10 2 (0.91%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.91%) Splunk