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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 430 531
Rank change year-on-year +101 +101 -44
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 274 293 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.51% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.57% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 181 188
10th Percentile £340 £450 £386
25th Percentile £450 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £603 £554
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% +8.80% +10.75%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.13% +4.55% +7.52%
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% +33.85%
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 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
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% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +91 227 £575 -8.00% 320
UK excluding London +67 126 £523 -9.13% 248
London +76 120 £623 -4.23% 108
Work from Home +106 99 £575 -4.17% 160
South East +20 44 £540 -13.60% 55
South West +15 31 £300 -52.00% 30
Scotland +48 28 £525 +10.53% 32
North of England +26 19 £450 -20.00% 66
North West +33 14 £344 -43.88% 42
Midlands +18 3 £425 -13.27% 33
North East - 3 £575 - 7
Yorkshire +14 2 £1,000 +81.82% 18
West Midlands +14 2 £438 -10.71% 23
East of England +9 2 £575 +12.20% 31
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £350 - 10

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 (1.46%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.46%) nginx
3 1 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 16 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.82%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.46%) 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 (12.77%) Azure
2 22 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (5.47%) AWS
3 15 (5.47%) GCP
4 12 (4.38%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.46%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.09%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.09%) 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 29 (10.58%) Firewall
2 20 (7.30%) Network Security
3 13 (4.74%) WAN
4 12 (4.38%) SD-WAN
5 9 (3.28%) MPLS
6 6 (2.19%) DNS
6 6 (2.19%) IPsec
6 6 (2.19%) SNMP
7 5 (1.82%) BGP
7 5 (1.82%) SSL
8 4 (1.46%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.46%) PBX
8 4 (1.46%) PSTN
8 4 (1.46%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.46%) VoIP
8 4 (1.46%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.09%) LTE
9 3 (1.09%) Wireless
10 2 (0.73%) HSRP
10 2 (0.73%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.46%) Couchbase
1 4 (1.46%) MySQL
1 4 (1.46%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.46%) Power BI
2 3 (1.09%) Data Vault
3 2 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.36%) Big Data
4 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
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%) 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 11 (4.01%) JIRA
2 1 (0.36%) ClearCase
2 1 (0.36%) ClearQuest
2 1 (0.36%) Git
2 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.36%) RStudio
General
1 75 (27.37%) Finance
2 56 (20.44%) Social Skills
3 34 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 26 (9.49%) Telecoms
5 16 (5.84%) Banking
6 12 (4.38%) Legal
7 9 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.28%) Local Government
7 9 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.82%) Police
9 4 (1.46%) Advertising
9 4 (1.46%) Automotive
9 4 (1.46%) Electronics
9 4 (1.46%) Fire and Rescue
9 4 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.09%) Back Office
10 3 (1.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (13.50%) Analyst
2 36 (13.14%) Architect
3 30 (10.95%) Project Manager
4 27 (9.85%) Security Architect
5 24 (8.76%) Senior
6 22 (8.03%) Consultant
7 19 (6.93%) Security Consultant
8 16 (5.84%) Lead
9 13 (4.74%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.74%) Security Specialist
10 12 (4.38%) Security Engineer
11 11 (4.01%) Developer
11 11 (4.01%) Risk Analyst
12 9 (3.28%) Risk Manager
13 8 (2.92%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 8 (2.92%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 8 (2.92%) Security Analyst
14 7 (2.55%) IT Manager
14 7 (2.55%) Java Developer
15 6 (2.19%) Delivery Manager
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 (1.46%) JSON
2 4 (1.46%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.46%) YAML
3 2 (0.73%) .NET
3 2 (0.73%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.73%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.31%) Management Information System
2 24 (8.76%) PKI
3 14 (5.11%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (3.28%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.55%) Insider Threat
6 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.19%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.19%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.46%) Industry 4.0
9 4 (1.46%) IoT
9 4 (1.46%) Robotics
9 4 (1.46%) SCADA
9 4 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.73%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.73%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.28%) Linux
2 7 (2.55%) Windows
3 5 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.46%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (28.10%) Cybersecurity
2 65 (23.72%) Risk Management
3 56 (20.44%) Information Security
4 48 (17.52%) Agile
5 42 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (12.41%) Cloud Security
7 31 (11.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (9.85%) Penetration Testing
8 27 (9.85%) Project Management
9 26 (9.49%) Decision-Making
10 25 (9.12%) Change Management
11 24 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (8.76%) Security Architecture
12 23 (8.39%) Security Management
13 22 (8.03%) Identity Access Management
13 22 (8.03%) Information Security Management
13 22 (8.03%) Threat Modelling
14 20 (7.30%) Collaborative Working
14 20 (7.30%) Migration
15 17 (6.20%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.11%) Java
2 9 (3.28%) Python
3 5 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (1.46%) PHP
4 4 (1.46%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.09%) C#
6 2 (0.73%) C++
6 2 (0.73%) Go
6 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.36%) C
7 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (18.98%) Degree
2 38 (13.87%) CISSP
2 38 (13.87%) Security Cleared
3 29 (10.58%) CISM
4 28 (10.22%) SC Cleared
5 14 (5.11%) CISA
5 14 (5.11%) CRISC
6 11 (4.01%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.92%) CREST Certified
7 8 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.92%) PMP
7 8 (2.92%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (2.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 7 (2.55%) MCSE
9 6 (2.19%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.19%) PMI Certification
9 6 (2.19%) SANS
10 5 (1.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (18.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (14.23%) NIST
3 21 (7.66%) NCSC
4 18 (6.57%) QA
5 10 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 9 (3.28%) GDPR
7 7 (2.55%) Data Quality
8 6 (2.19%) GRC
9 5 (1.82%) COBIT
9 5 (1.82%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.82%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.46%) ISO 31000
11 3 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (1.09%) JSP 440
11 3 (1.09%) PMO
11 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.73%) PSD2
12 2 (0.73%) RMADS
System Software
1 9 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.82%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.09%) Docker
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.82%) SCCM
3 5 (1.82%) Terraform
4 4 (1.46%) Ansible
4 4 (1.46%) Functional Safety
5 3 (1.09%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (0.73%) Grafana
6 2 (0.73%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 42 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.74%) Google
3 10 (3.65%) BT
4 8 (2.92%) SAP
5 5 (1.82%) Juniper
6 4 (1.46%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.46%) Qualys
6 4 (1.46%) Refinitiv
7 3 (1.09%) Ariba
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%) EMC
9 1 (0.36%) HP
9 1 (0.36%) Salesforce