Risk Assessment Contracts in Cheshire

Risk Assessment
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 53 61
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 6 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% 0.99% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.18% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £700
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -35.71% -
75th Percentile £474 £475 -
90th Percentile £489 - -
North West median daily rate £495 £450 £606
% change year-on-year +10.00% -25.77% +38.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £24.06 - -
25th Percentile £24.92 - -
Median hourly rate £26.36 - -
75th Percentile £27.79 - -
90th Percentile £28.66 - -
North West median hourly rate £26.36 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Risk Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in Cheshire

Risk Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in Cheshire

Risk Assessment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Assessment in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in Cheshire

Risk Assessment
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 Assessment within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 3 £447 -
Macclesfield +12 1 £500 +11.11%
Crewe - 1 - - 1
Risk Assessment
North West

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (33.33%) CICS
1 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) SOAtest
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) General Ledger
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Local Government
2 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) ICT Manager
2 2 (33.33%) ICT Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Test Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Supply Chain Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) J2EE
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (33.33%) VSAM
2 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
2 1 (16.67%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Contract Management
3 2 (33.33%) Critical Path Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Matrix Management
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) COBOL
2 2 (33.33%) JCL
2 2 (33.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio
1 2 (33.33%) Informatica
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Parasoft
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware