Risk Analysis Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Risk Analysis
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Risk Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Risk Analysis 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £542 - -
25th Percentile £568 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 - -
75th Percentile £637 - -
90th Percentile £640 - -
North West median daily rate £585 £600 -
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Risk Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 617 444 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.02% 86.89% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 271 226
10th Percentile £268 £329 £283
25th Percentile £358 £389 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £496 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% -5.50% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £568 £575
90th Percentile £688 £650 £611
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 25
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.05 £15.40
25th Percentile £15.53 £21.05 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.43 £27.39 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year -18.09% +21.55% +61.04%
75th Percentile £40.00 £39.38 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.55 £43.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.71% +47.71%

Risk Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Risk Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Risk Analysis job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Risk Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Risk Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Risk Analysis

Risk Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Risk Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Risk Analysis

Risk Analysis
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Analysis within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 8 November 2025. 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
Knutsford - 4 £620 - 1
Risk Analysis
North West

Risk Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CISM
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Fluentd
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft