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 25 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 648 794
Rank change year-on-year +89 +146 -105
Contract jobs citing RMADS 25 49 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.088% 0.062%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.42% 0.65% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 32
10th Percentile £378 £512 -
25th Percentile £475 £581 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £653
Median % change year-on-year - -4.21% +13.48%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £746
90th Percentile £673 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £625 £655
% change year-on-year - -4.58% +4.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 11
10th Percentile - £72.50 £50.77
25th Percentile - £72.98 £58.89
Median hourly rate £83.41 £83.31 £68.58
Median % change year-on-year +0.12% +21.48% +17.88%
75th Percentile - £83.40 £75.06
90th Percentile - - £81.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £83.31 £68.58
% change year-on-year - +21.48% +17.88%

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 5,985 7,523 11,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.70% 13.55% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,738 5,138 7,947
10th Percentile £281 £298 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £455
% change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 250 308
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.29 £12.31
25th Percentile £13.18 £19.07 £16.50
Median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
Median % change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.62 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.73 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £37.50 £22.40
% change year-on-year -48.87% +67.45% +7.67%

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 25 June 2024.

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

RMADS
Top 5 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 25 June 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 +64 25 £625 - 4
UK excluding London +13 24 £625 - 4
South East +27 15 £625 - 1
South West -21 9 £563 -10.00% 3
Work from Home +112 5 £438 -23.91% 3

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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Internet
1 1 (4.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Robot Framework
1 7 (28.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
1 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Electronics
2 4 (16.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (16.00%) Marketing
2 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.00%) Military
3 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Consultant
1 11 (44.00%) Security Consultant
2 7 (28.00%) Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Security Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Security Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Information Assurance Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Information Security Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Support Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Coordinator
6 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Information Assurance Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Product Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Project Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) PKI
2 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.00%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Windows
1 7 (28.00%) Windows Server
1 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Agile
1 7 (28.00%) Application Security
1 7 (28.00%) Boundary Protection
1 7 (28.00%) Scrum
1 7 (28.00%) Security Architecture
1 7 (28.00%) Service Management
1 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (20.00%) Information Assurance
3 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (16.00%) Digital Marketing
3 4 (16.00%) Programme Management
4 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (8.00%) Biometrics
5 2 (8.00%) Change Advisory Board
5 2 (8.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (8.00%) Protective Monitoring
5 2 (8.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (28.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (36.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (28.00%) CISSP
5 6 (24.00%) CESG Certified Professional
6 4 (16.00%) CLAS
7 3 (12.00%) CISM
8 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) JSP 440
2 6 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (20.00%) NIST
4 3 (12.00%) NCSC
5 1 (4.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Ansible
1 7 (28.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) VMware
2 4 (16.00%) SAP