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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 410 535
Rank change year-on-year +88 +125 -54
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 275 304 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.54% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.60% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 187 197
10th Percentile £340 £456 £343
25th Percentile £450 £525 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.92% +10.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £631
90th Percentile £762 £775 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile - £48.73 £44.11
25th Percentile - £59.73 £54.66
Median hourly rate £14.54 £72.40 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year -79.92% +12.68% -1.80%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.59 £69.12
90th Percentile £66.30 £73.79 £70.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.54 £72.40 £65.50
% change year-on-year -79.92% +10.53% +0.11%

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 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

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 29 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 29 May 2024.

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 29 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 +61 229 £550 -10.20% 316
UK excluding London +47 126 £525 -8.70% 239
London +77 122 £585 -10.00% 94
Work from Home +110 98 £575 -4.17% 103
South East -3 43 £540 -13.60% 48
South West +12 31 £300 -51.02% 34
Scotland +45 27 £525 +10.53% 29
North of England +27 19 £450 -18.18% 60
North West +27 14 £344 -42.71% 46
Midlands +16 5 £438 -8.85% 31
West Midlands +10 4 £450 -6.25% 23
North East - 3 £575 - 6
Yorkshire +4 2 £1,000 +81.82% 10
East of England +3 2 £575 +12.20% 32
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £350 - 8

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 (1.82%) Confluence
2 4 (1.45%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.45%) nginx
3 1 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 16 (5.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 35 (12.73%) Azure
2 20 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (5.45%) GCP
4 13 (4.73%) AWS
5 12 (4.36%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.09%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.09%) SaaS
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.73%) Azure API Management
9 2 (0.73%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (0.73%) Google App Engine
9 2 (0.73%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (0.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (0.73%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.36%) Rekognition
10 1 (0.36%) SAP Fieldglass
10 1 (0.36%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.18%) Firewall
2 19 (6.91%) Network Security
3 13 (4.73%) WAN
4 12 (4.36%) SD-WAN
5 10 (3.64%) MPLS
6 6 (2.18%) BGP
6 6 (2.18%) DNS
6 6 (2.18%) IPsec
6 6 (2.18%) SNMP
7 5 (1.82%) SSL
8 4 (1.45%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.45%) PBX
8 4 (1.45%) PSTN
8 4 (1.45%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.45%) VoIP
8 4 (1.45%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.09%) LTE
9 3 (1.09%) Wireless
10 2 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.45%) Couchbase
1 4 (1.45%) MySQL
1 4 (1.45%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.45%) Power BI
2 3 (1.09%) Data Vault
3 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.36%) Big Data
4 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.36%) IDMS
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.36%) JIRA
2 2 (0.73%) Postman
3 1 (0.36%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.36%) ClearQuest
3 1 (0.36%) JMeter
3 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.36%) RStudio
General
1 73 (26.55%) Finance
2 50 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 35 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.82%) Telecoms
6 15 (5.45%) Banking
7 13 (4.73%) Legal
8 12 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.27%) Local Government
10 7 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.82%) Police
12 4 (1.45%) Advertising
12 4 (1.45%) Electronics
12 4 (1.45%) Fire and Rescue
12 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.45%) Retail
13 3 (1.09%) Back Office
13 3 (1.09%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (1.09%) Marketing
13 3 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (14.18%) Analyst
2 35 (12.73%) Architect
3 28 (10.18%) Project Manager
4 26 (9.45%) Security Architect
5 25 (9.09%) Senior
6 21 (7.64%) Consultant
7 18 (6.55%) Security Consultant
8 17 (6.18%) Lead
9 14 (5.09%) Business Analyst
9 14 (5.09%) Security Specialist
10 12 (4.36%) Security Engineer
11 11 (4.00%) Risk Analyst
12 9 (3.27%) Developer
12 9 (3.27%) Risk Manager
13 8 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 8 (2.91%) Security Analyst
14 7 (2.55%) IT Manager
14 7 (2.55%) Microsoft 365 Architect
15 6 (2.18%) Java Developer
15 6 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.55%) GWT
1 7 (2.55%) JAX-RS
1 7 (2.55%) REST
1 7 (2.55%) Restlet
1 7 (2.55%) SAML
1 7 (2.55%) Spring
1 7 (2.55%) Spring Boot
2 4 (1.45%) JSON
2 4 (1.45%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.45%) YAML
3 3 (1.09%) EDI
4 2 (0.73%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.73%) Swagger
5 1 (0.36%) .NET
5 1 (0.36%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.73%) Management Information System
2 23 (8.36%) PKI
3 14 (5.09%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (3.64%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.55%) Insider Threat
6 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.18%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.18%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.82%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.45%) Industry 4.0
9 4 (1.45%) IoT
9 4 (1.45%) Robotics
9 4 (1.45%) SCADA
10 3 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.73%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.27%) Linux
2 7 (2.55%) Windows
3 5 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.45%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (27.64%) Cybersecurity
2 65 (23.64%) Risk Management
3 58 (21.09%) Information Security
4 46 (16.73%) Agile
5 40 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (12.00%) Cloud Security
7 31 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (9.82%) Penetration Testing
9 25 (9.09%) Decision-Making
9 25 (9.09%) Project Management
10 24 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (8.36%) Identity Access Management
11 23 (8.36%) Security Management
11 23 (8.36%) Threat Modelling
12 22 (8.00%) Migration
12 22 (8.00%) Security Architecture
13 21 (7.64%) Information Assurance
13 21 (7.64%) Information Security Management
14 20 (7.27%) Change Management
14 20 (7.27%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.36%) Java
2 7 (2.55%) Python
3 5 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (1.45%) PHP
5 3 (1.09%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.73%) C#
6 2 (0.73%) C++
6 2 (0.73%) Go
7 1 (0.36%) C
7 1 (0.36%) R
7 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (18.91%) Degree
2 39 (14.18%) Security Cleared
3 37 (13.45%) CISSP
4 29 (10.55%) CISM
5 28 (10.18%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.09%) CISA
7 13 (4.73%) CRISC
8 10 (3.64%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.91%) CREST Certified
9 8 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.91%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (2.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 7 (2.55%) MCSE
11 6 (2.18%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.18%) PMP
12 5 (1.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 5 (1.82%) SANS
13 4 (1.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (18.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (13.82%) NIST
3 22 (8.00%) NCSC
4 17 (6.18%) QA
5 10 (3.64%) GDPR
5 10 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 7 (2.55%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.18%) GRC
7 6 (2.18%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.82%) COBIT
8 5 (1.82%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.45%) ISO 31000
10 3 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.09%) JSP 440
10 3 (1.09%) PMO
10 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.73%) PSD2
11 2 (0.73%) RMADS
System Software
1 8 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.82%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.36%) Docker
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.82%) SCCM
3 5 (1.82%) Terraform
4 4 (1.45%) Ansible
4 4 (1.45%) Functional Safety
4 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.09%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (0.73%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.36%) Grafana
7 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 42 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.73%) Google
3 10 (3.64%) BT
4 6 (2.18%) Juniper
4 6 (2.18%) SAP
5 5 (1.82%) Bloomberg
5 5 (1.82%) Refinitiv
6 4 (1.45%) Qualys
7 3 (1.09%) Rapid7
8 2 (0.73%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.73%) Cisco
8 2 (0.73%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.73%) Remedy
8 2 (0.73%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.73%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.73%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.36%) Ariba
9 1 (0.36%) EMC
9 1 (0.36%) HP
9 1 (0.36%) Salesforce