Risk Assessment Contracts with Work from Home Options

Risk Assessment
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 349 469
Rank change year-on-year +106 +120 -63
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 98 106 150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.67% 0.43% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.48% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 65 108
10th Percentile £400 £455 £407
25th Percentile £453 £503 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.48% +11.52%
75th Percentile £738 £688 £630
90th Percentile £784 £775 £724
UK median daily rate £555 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -8.45% +10.23% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £40.85
25th Percentile - £69.25 £49.63
Median hourly rate £26.24 £70.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.78% +7.63% +2.34%
75th Percentile - £71.75 £72.13
90th Percentile - - £75.35
UK median hourly rate £14.54 £70.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -79.38% +7.63% +2.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Risk Assessment
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Risk Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Risk Assessment trend for jobs with a WFH option

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Risk Assessment over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Risk Assessment daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 4 (4.08%) Apache Solr
1 4 (4.08%) nginx
2 3 (3.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.02%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (1.02%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.27%) Azure
2 11 (11.22%) AWS
3 6 (6.12%) GCP
4 5 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.10%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.08%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.02%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.02%) Rekognition
7 1 (1.02%) SaaS
7 1 (1.02%) Serverless
7 1 (1.02%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.24%) Network Security
2 4 (4.08%) DNS
2 4 (4.08%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.08%) IPsec
2 4 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.06%) Firewall
4 2 (2.04%) SSL
4 2 (2.04%) WAN
5 1 (1.02%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.02%) GPRS
5 1 (1.02%) Internet
5 1 (1.02%) LTE
5 1 (1.02%) SDH
5 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.02%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) Couchbase
1 4 (4.08%) MySQL
1 4 (4.08%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.02%) Big Data
2 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.02%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.02%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) Git
2 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.02%) RStudio
General
1 20 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.31%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.22%) Finance
4 9 (9.18%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (6.12%) Legal
7 3 (3.06%) Banking
7 3 (3.06%) Local Government
8 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Electronics
8 2 (2.04%) Military
8 2 (2.04%) Retail
9 1 (1.02%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.02%) Billing
9 1 (1.02%) Environmental Health
9 1 (1.02%) Front Office
9 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (16.33%) Architect
1 16 (16.33%) Security Architect
2 11 (11.22%) Analyst
3 8 (8.16%) Consultant
3 8 (8.16%) Lead
4 7 (7.14%) Security Consultant
5 6 (6.12%) Project Manager
5 6 (6.12%) Security Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) Senior
6 5 (5.10%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.10%) Risk Analyst
6 5 (5.10%) Security Specialist
7 4 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 4 (4.08%) Senior Security Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Asset Management Analyst
8 3 (3.06%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (3.06%) Regulatory Business Analyst
8 3 (3.06%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) JSON
1 4 (4.08%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (4.08%) YAML
2 2 (2.04%) GWT
2 2 (2.04%) JAX-RS
2 2 (2.04%) REST
2 2 (2.04%) Restlet
2 2 (2.04%) SAML
2 2 (2.04%) Spring
2 2 (2.04%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.02%) .NET
3 1 (1.02%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.12%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.04%) Insider Threat
4 2 (2.04%) PKI
4 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Licensing
5 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.02%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) CentOS
3 1 (1.02%) Windows
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.67%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (32.65%) Information Security
3 29 (29.59%) Risk Management
4 24 (24.49%) Agile
5 18 (18.37%) Security Management
6 17 (17.35%) Information Security Management
7 15 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (15.31%) Information Assurance
7 15 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (12.24%) Architectural Patterns
8 12 (12.24%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (11.22%) Penetration Testing
10 10 (10.20%) SABSA
10 10 (10.20%) Threat Modelling
10 10 (10.20%) TOGAF
11 9 (9.18%) DevOps
11 9 (9.18%) ISMS
12 8 (8.16%) Security Architecture
12 8 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (7.14%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.08%) PHP
2 3 (3.06%) Java
2 3 (3.06%) Python
3 2 (2.04%) C#
4 1 (1.02%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.02%) R
4 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (20.41%) CISSP
2 19 (19.39%) SC Cleared
2 19 (19.39%) Security Cleared
3 17 (17.35%) CISM
4 15 (15.31%) Degree
5 12 (12.24%) CISA
6 8 (8.16%) CREST Certified
6 8 (8.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (7.14%) DV Cleared
8 6 (6.12%) CRISC
8 6 (6.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 5 (5.10%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (4.08%) CGEIT
10 4 (4.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 4 (4.08%) MCSE
10 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (2.04%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (2.04%) CLAS
12 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (27.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (23.47%) NIST
3 16 (16.33%) NCSC
4 11 (11.22%) QA
5 7 (7.14%) GDPR
6 5 (5.10%) Data Quality
6 5 (5.10%) HIPAA
7 3 (3.06%) COBIT
7 3 (3.06%) GRC
7 3 (3.06%) JSP 440
8 2 (2.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (2.04%) ISO 31000
8 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
8 2 (2.04%) PSD2
8 2 (2.04%) RMADS
8 2 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.04%) Docker
3 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.08%) Ansible
2 4 (4.08%) Functional Safety
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.08%) Terraform
3 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.02%) Grafana
4 1 (1.02%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.12%) BT
2 6 (6.12%) Google
3 3 (3.06%) SAP
4 2 (2.04%) Qualys
4 2 (2.04%) Rapid7
4 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.02%) Remedy
5 1 (1.02%) Salesforce