Risk Assessment Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Risk Assessment
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 248 362
Rank change year-on-year +24 +114 +106
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 76 98 110
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 0.64% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.73% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 59 71
10th Percentile £363 £400 £450
25th Percentile £450 £466 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% -4.17% +2.04%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £694
90th Percentile £688 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £569 £613
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - £69.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £26.24 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.97% -62.78% +7.63%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £71.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £14.54 £70.50
% change year-on-year +322.94% -79.38% +9.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,390 22,975
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.90% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,194 8,954 16,256
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 577 528
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £25.00 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.02 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.38 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Risk Assessment
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Risk Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Risk Assessment trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Risk Assessment.

Risk Assessment daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Risk Assessment over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Risk Assessment daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Risk Assessment.

Risk Assessment hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.32%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.74%) Azure
2 11 (14.47%) AWS
3 5 (6.58%) IaaS
3 5 (6.58%) SaaS
4 3 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (3.95%) GCP
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.95%) PaaS
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.63%) GitHub
5 2 (2.63%) OCI
5 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.63%) Serverless
6 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.32%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.11%) Firewall
2 8 (10.53%) Network Security
3 4 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (3.95%) DNS
4 3 (3.95%) SSL
4 3 (3.95%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.63%) FTP
5 2 (2.63%) HTTP
5 2 (2.63%) LAN
5 2 (2.63%) SMTP
5 2 (2.63%) VPN
5 2 (2.63%) WAN
6 1 (1.32%) BGP
6 1 (1.32%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.63%) Data Mining
1 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.58%) JIRA
2 1 (1.32%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.32%) GitLab
2 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.32%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 19 (25.00%) Finance
3 14 (18.42%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.53%) Banking
6 5 (6.58%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.95%) Legal
7 3 (3.95%) Military
8 2 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.63%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.32%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (1.32%) French Language
9 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Local Government
9 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (19.74%) Consultant
2 12 (15.79%) Architect
3 11 (14.47%) Security Consultant
4 10 (13.16%) Analyst
5 9 (11.84%) Security Architect
6 7 (9.21%) Project Manager
7 6 (7.89%) Security Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Senior
8 4 (5.26%) Information Security Consultant
8 4 (5.26%) Security Specialist
9 3 (3.95%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Manager
9 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 3 (3.95%) Risk Analyst
10 2 (2.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (2.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 2 (2.63%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 2 (2.63%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 2 (2.63%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 2 (2.63%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) .NET
1 2 (2.63%) OAuth
1 2 (2.63%) OpenID
1 2 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (2.63%) SAML
2 1 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.32%) Kafka
2 1 (1.32%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.47%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.21%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.58%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (6.58%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.95%) Cyberattack
4 3 (3.95%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.63%) CMDB
5 2 (2.63%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.63%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.32%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.63%) Windows
1 2 (2.63%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.32%) Kali Linux
2 1 (1.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.58%) Risk Management
2 23 (30.26%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (22.37%) Information Security
4 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (18.42%) Agile
6 13 (17.11%) Project Management
6 13 (17.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (14.47%) Threat Modelling
8 10 (13.16%) Change Management
8 10 (13.16%) Incident Response
8 10 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (13.16%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 9 (11.84%) Vulnerability Management
9 9 (11.84%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 8 (10.53%) Business Continuity
10 8 (10.53%) Cloud Security
10 8 (10.53%) Decision-Making
11 7 (9.21%) Computer Science
11 7 (9.21%) Enterprise Architecture
11 7 (9.21%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.58%) Python
2 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.95%) Java
3 3 (3.95%) SQL
4 2 (2.63%) Bash
4 2 (2.63%) C#
5 1 (1.32%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.74%) CISSP
3 12 (15.79%) CISM
4 11 (14.47%) Degree
5 10 (13.16%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.26%) CISA
6 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.26%) CRISC
7 3 (3.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.95%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.63%) CEH
8 2 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.63%) OCP
8 2 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (23.68%) NIST
2 14 (18.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (7.89%) GDPR
4 5 (6.58%) GRC
4 5 (6.58%) NCSC
4 5 (6.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (5.26%) QA
5 4 (5.26%) SLA
6 3 (3.95%) HIPAA
6 3 (3.95%) NIST 800
7 2 (2.63%) Basel II
7 2 (2.63%) Basel III
7 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.32%) COBIT
8 1 (1.32%) EU AI Act
8 1 (1.32%) PMO
8 1 (1.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (3.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.63%) vSphere
3 1 (1.32%) Docker
3 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.63%) Terraform
3 1 (1.32%) Ansible
3 1 (1.32%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.32%) Grafana
3 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.58%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.26%) Planview
3 4 (5.26%) Qualys
3 4 (5.26%) VMware
4 3 (3.95%) Tenable
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle
5 2 (2.63%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.32%) Ariba
6 1 (1.32%) BMC
6 1 (1.32%) BT
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco
6 1 (1.32%) Genesys
6 1 (1.32%) HP
6 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.32%) Remedy
6 1 (1.32%) SAP
6 1 (1.32%) Snow
6 1 (1.32%) Splunk
6 1 (1.32%) Symantec