Risk Assessment Contracts in the UK excluding London

Risk Assessment
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 323 392
Rank change year-on-year +63 +69 -32
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 127 124 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.54% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.60% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 84 78
10th Percentile £300 £450 £341
25th Percentile £450 £480 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +1.55% +7.86%
75th Percentile £613 £673 £638
90th Percentile £734 £746 £712
UK median daily rate £550 £601 £566
% change year-on-year -8.41% +6.05% +13.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 5
10th Percentile - - £55.53
25th Percentile - £59.73 £59.00
Median hourly rate £14.54 £72.40 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -79.92% +10.53% +20.18%
75th Percentile - £72.98 £69.83
90th Percentile £31.65 £73.35 £70.58
UK median hourly rate £14.54 £70.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -79.38% +7.63% +20.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Risk Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London

Risk Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London

Risk Assessment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the UK excluding London

Risk Assessment
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East +15 45 £540 -13.60% 51
South West +7 31 £300 -52.00% 30
Scotland +56 28 £525 +10.53% 32
North of England +26 19 £450 -18.18% 61
North West +22 14 £344 -42.71% 40
Midlands +25 3 £425 -12.37% 29
North East - 3 £575 - 6
West Midlands +19 2 £438 -9.79% 21
East of England +5 2 £575 +12.20% 30
Yorkshire +4 2 £1,000 +81.82% 17
Isle of Man - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £350 - 8
Risk Assessment
UK

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (3.15%) Apache Solr
1 4 (3.15%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.94%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.81%) Azure
2 14 (11.02%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (7.09%) Power Platform
4 8 (6.30%) GCP
5 4 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.57%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.57%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (1.57%) AWS
6 2 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.57%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.57%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.57%) Rekognition
6 2 (1.57%) Serverless
6 2 (1.57%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.60%) Firewall
2 6 (4.72%) BGP
2 6 (4.72%) MPLS
2 6 (4.72%) Network Security
3 5 (3.94%) SSL
4 4 (3.15%) DNS
4 4 (3.15%) HTTPS
4 4 (3.15%) IPsec
4 4 (3.15%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.36%) LTE
6 2 (1.57%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.79%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.79%) GPRS
7 1 (0.79%) Internet
7 1 (0.79%) SDH
7 1 (0.79%) VSAT
7 1 (0.79%) WAN
7 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.15%) Couchbase
1 4 (3.15%) MySQL
1 4 (3.15%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.36%) Data Vault
3 2 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) IDMS
4 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (4.72%) JIRA
General
1 30 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.69%) Finance
2 25 (19.69%) Telecoms
3 23 (18.11%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.51%) Legal
6 7 (5.51%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.94%) Police
8 4 (3.15%) Banking
9 3 (2.36%) Back Office
9 3 (2.36%) Electronics
9 3 (2.36%) Mandarin Language
9 3 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Automotive
10 2 (1.57%) Marketing
10 2 (1.57%) Military
10 2 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (11.81%) Analyst
1 15 (11.81%) Project Manager
1 15 (11.81%) Senior
2 9 (7.09%) Consultant
3 8 (6.30%) Security Consultant
3 8 (6.30%) Security Specialist
4 7 (5.51%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 6 (4.72%) Developer
5 6 (4.72%) IP Engineer
5 6 (4.72%) Senior IP Engineer
5 6 (4.72%) Senior Test Engineer
5 6 (4.72%) Test Engineer
6 5 (3.94%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 5 (3.94%) Telecoms Specialist
7 4 (3.15%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.15%) Change Manager
7 4 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.15%) Java Developer
7 4 (3.15%) Lead
7 4 (3.15%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.15%) GWT
1 4 (3.15%) JAX-RS
1 4 (3.15%) JSON
1 4 (3.15%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (3.15%) REST
1 4 (3.15%) Restlet
1 4 (3.15%) SAML
1 4 (3.15%) Spring
1 4 (3.15%) Spring Boot
1 4 (3.15%) YAML
2 2 (1.57%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.79%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.90%) Management Information System
2 9 (7.09%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (6.30%) Operational Technology
4 6 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.94%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.94%) PKI
6 4 (3.15%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.15%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (3.15%) Insider Threat
6 4 (3.15%) IoT
6 4 (3.15%) Robotics
7 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.36%) SCADA
8 2 (1.57%) CCTV
8 2 (1.57%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.57%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.30%) Linux
2 5 (3.94%) Windows
2 5 (3.94%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (23.62%) Risk Management
2 29 (22.83%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (21.26%) Information Security
4 22 (17.32%) Agile
4 22 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (13.39%) Decision-Making
6 15 (11.81%) Change Management
7 13 (10.24%) ITIL
7 13 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (9.45%) Collaborative Working
8 12 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (9.45%) Migration
8 12 (9.45%) Security Operations
8 12 (9.45%) Threat Modelling
9 11 (8.66%) Cloud Security
9 11 (8.66%) GAP Analysis
10 10 (7.87%) Project Management
11 9 (7.09%) Information Security Management
11 9 (7.09%) Penetration Testing
11 9 (7.09%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.72%) Java
2 4 (3.15%) PHP
3 2 (1.57%) Python
3 2 (1.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (20.47%) Degree
2 24 (18.90%) Security Cleared
3 17 (13.39%) SC Cleared
4 13 (10.24%) CISSP
5 9 (7.09%) CISM
5 9 (7.09%) DV Cleared
6 8 (6.30%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (5.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 7 (5.51%) MCSE
7 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (4.72%) CISA
9 5 (3.94%) CRISC
10 4 (3.15%) CGEIT
10 4 (3.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 3 (2.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (1.57%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (1.57%) CLAS
12 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.57%) PMP
13 1 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (10.24%) NIST
3 10 (7.87%) QA
4 5 (3.94%) GDPR
5 4 (3.15%) HIPAA
6 3 (2.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (2.36%) JSP 440
6 3 (2.36%) NCSC
7 2 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.57%) GRC
7 2 (1.57%) RMADS
8 1 (0.79%) COBIT
8 1 (0.79%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.79%) ITGC
8 1 (0.79%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (3.94%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.94%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.94%) SCCM
3 4 (3.15%) Ansible
3 4 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (3.15%) Terraform
4 3 (2.36%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (1.57%) Grafana
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.87%) BT
3 8 (6.30%) Google
4 6 (4.72%) Juniper
5 3 (2.36%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.36%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.57%) SAP
7 1 (0.79%) Qualys
7 1 (0.79%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.79%) Remedy