RMADS Contracts

Risk Management and Accreditation Documentation Set (RMADS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring RMADS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RMADS over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 558 631
Rank change year-on-year +34 +73 +180
Contract jobs citing RMADS 24 27 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.062% 0.092%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.46% 0.45% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 21
10th Percentile £538 £393 £525
25th Percentile £575 £478 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £640
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% -1.54%
75th Percentile £700 £651 £775
90th Percentile £738 £683 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £625 £625
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 17
10th Percentile - - £72.50
25th Percentile - - £73.25
Median hourly rate - - £83.31
75th Percentile - - £83.40
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £83.31
% change year-on-year - - +20.23%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

RMADS falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,193 5,937 7,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.30% 13.71% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 3,673 5,290
10th Percentile £280 £281 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £612 £623 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 431 258
10th Percentile £14.78 £11.07 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.52 £19.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -36.42% +39.81%
75th Percentile £62.25 £50.54 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.96 £70.00 £79.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.91 £23.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +21.35% -35.21% +61.36%

RMADS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RMADS in the UK

RMADS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RMADS in the UK

RMADS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RMADS over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RMADS in the UK

RMADS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for RMADS in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RMADS within the UK over the 6 months to 6 July 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 +51 24 £625 - 30
UK excluding London +42 21 £625 - 23
South West +45 16 £625 - 10
Work from Home +35 6 £688 +57.14% 21
South East +29 5 £600 -4.00% 11
London - 3 £700 - 7

RMADS
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:

Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
General
1 11 (45.83%) Public Sector
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Electronics
2 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 8 (33.33%) Marketing
2 8 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Consultant
2 12 (50.00%) Security Consultant
3 8 (33.33%) Coordinator
3 8 (33.33%) Security Assurance Coordinator
4 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 3 (12.50%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) Chief Information Security Officer
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.17%) VMS
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows 7
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Agile
2 10 (41.67%) Risk Management
3 8 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 8 (33.33%) Programme Management
4 7 (29.17%) Critical Thinking
4 7 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (29.17%) Incident Management
5 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 6 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
6 4 (16.67%) Information Assurance
6 4 (16.67%) Project Management
6 4 (16.67%) Scrum
6 4 (16.67%) Waterfall
7 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps
7 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (12.50%) Zero Trust
8 2 (8.33%) Risk Register
9 1 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (83.33%) DV Cleared
3 15 (62.50%) CISSP
4 13 (54.17%) SC Cleared
5 12 (50.00%) CESG Certified Professional
6 6 (25.00%) CISM
6 6 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 5 (20.83%) CLAS
8 4 (16.67%) CISA
9 3 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (79.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (54.17%) JSP 440
3 10 (41.67%) NIST
4 6 (25.00%) NCSC
5 5 (20.83%) NIST 800
6 1 (4.17%) GDPR
6 1 (4.17%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (4.17%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (4.17%) OPNET
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) SAP
2 4 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) VMware