Risk Assessment Contracts with Work from Home 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 342 478
Rank change year-on-year +92 +136 -68
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 92 115 145
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 0.48% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.54% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 71 108
10th Percentile £400 £453 £412
25th Percentile £467 £500 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.39% +11.62%
75th Percentile £738 £688 £625
90th Percentile £773 £825 £705
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.21% +4.39% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 £30.75 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.35% - -
75th Percentile £67.50 £32.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £14.54 £72.40 £68.58
% change year-on-year -79.92% +5.56% +4.82%

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 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 2024.

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 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 (4.35%) Apache Solr
1 4 (4.35%) nginx
2 3 (3.26%) Confluence
3 1 (1.09%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (1.09%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.30%) Azure
2 10 (10.87%) AWS
3 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.52%) GCP
5 5 (5.43%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.26%) Azure API Management
7 3 (3.26%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.09%) Rekognition
8 1 (1.09%) SaaS
8 1 (1.09%) Serverless
8 1 (1.09%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.04%) Network Security
2 4 (4.35%) DNS
2 4 (4.35%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.35%) IPsec
2 4 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.26%) Firewall
4 2 (2.17%) SSL
4 2 (2.17%) WAN
5 1 (1.09%) GPRS
5 1 (1.09%) Internet
5 1 (1.09%) LTE
5 1 (1.09%) SDH
5 1 (1.09%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.09%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) Couchbase
1 4 (4.35%) MySQL
1 4 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.09%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.26%) JIRA
1 3 (3.26%) Postman
2 2 (2.17%) JMeter
2 2 (2.17%) LoadRunner
General
1 18 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.22%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.04%) Finance
4 9 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (9.78%) Telecoms
5 8 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.52%) Legal
7 4 (4.35%) Retail
8 3 (3.26%) Banking
9 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.17%) Electronics
9 2 (2.17%) Military
10 1 (1.09%) Billing
10 1 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.09%) Environmental Health
10 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.09%) Local Government
10 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (16.30%) Architect
1 15 (16.30%) Security Architect
2 10 (10.87%) Analyst
3 8 (8.70%) Lead
4 7 (7.61%) Security Engineer
5 6 (6.52%) Business Analyst
5 6 (6.52%) Consultant
6 5 (5.43%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Security Consultant
6 5 (5.43%) Senior
6 5 (5.43%) Test Manager
7 4 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.35%) Risk Analyst
7 4 (4.35%) Risk Business Analyst
7 4 (4.35%) Security Specialist
7 4 (4.35%) Senior Security Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 3 (3.26%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Programme Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.35%) JSON
1 4 (4.35%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (4.35%) YAML
2 3 (3.26%) Swagger
3 2 (2.17%) EDI
3 2 (2.17%) GWT
3 2 (2.17%) JAX-RS
3 2 (2.17%) REST
3 2 (2.17%) Restlet
3 2 (2.17%) SAML
3 2 (2.17%) Spring
3 2 (2.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.09%) .NET
4 1 (1.09%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.43%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.26%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.17%) Insider Threat
5 2 (2.17%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.17%) PKI
5 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (1.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.43%) Linux
2 4 (4.35%) CentOS
3 1 (1.09%) Windows
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (34.78%) Information Security
2 29 (31.52%) Cybersecurity
3 25 (27.17%) Risk Management
4 24 (26.09%) Agile
5 19 (20.65%) Security Management
6 17 (18.48%) Information Security Management
7 16 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (16.30%) Information Assurance
9 12 (13.04%) Architectural Patterns
9 12 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (11.96%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (11.96%) DevOps
10 11 (11.96%) Penetration Testing
11 10 (10.87%) SABSA
11 10 (10.87%) TOGAF
12 9 (9.78%) ISMS
13 8 (8.70%) GAP Analysis
13 8 (8.70%) Security Architecture
14 7 (7.61%) ITIL
14 7 (7.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.35%) PHP
2 3 (3.26%) Java
3 2 (2.17%) C#
4 1 (1.09%) Python
4 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.48%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.39%) CISSP
4 14 (15.22%) CISM
5 12 (13.04%) CISA
6 10 (10.87%) Degree
7 8 (8.70%) CREST Certified
7 8 (8.70%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (6.52%) DV Cleared
8 6 (6.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 5 (5.43%) CRISC
9 5 (5.43%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (4.35%) CGEIT
10 4 (4.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 4 (4.35%) MCSE
10 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.09%) APMP
11 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (1.09%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (26.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (19.57%) NIST
3 13 (14.13%) NCSC
4 9 (9.78%) QA
5 7 (7.61%) GDPR
6 5 (5.43%) Data Quality
6 5 (5.43%) HIPAA
7 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
7 3 (3.26%) COBIT
7 3 (3.26%) GRC
8 2 (2.17%) PCI DSS
8 2 (2.17%) PSD2
8 2 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.09%) JSP 440
9 1 (1.09%) PMO
9 1 (1.09%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.35%) Ansible
2 4 (4.35%) Functional Safety
2 4 (4.35%) Terraform
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (1.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.52%) BT
2 6 (6.52%) Google
3 2 (2.17%) Qualys
3 2 (2.17%) Rapid7
3 2 (2.17%) SAP
3 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.09%) Remedy
4 1 (1.09%) Salesforce