Risk Assessment Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Risk Assessment
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Risk Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.53% - 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £488 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.78%
75th Percentile £555 - £588
90th Percentile £582 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £527 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.30% - +26.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 669 428 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.61% 88.98% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 269 515
10th Percentile £313 £269 £281
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £676 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 12
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £11.75
Median hourly rate £15.25 £37.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -59.33% +199.28% -78.49%
75th Percentile £40.06 £69.07 £15.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £21.30
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year -42.49% +118.73% -57.21%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Risk Assessment job vacancy trend in Leeds

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Risk Assessment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in Leeds over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in Leeds

Risk Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Implementation Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Implementation Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Project Implementation Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Flash
1 2 (50.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 2 (50.00%) Application Security
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (50.00%) Data Collection
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) Federated Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Information Security
3 2 (50.00%) KYC
3 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Rust
1 2 (50.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCSK
1 2 (50.00%) CEH
1 2 (50.00%) CISA
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) OSCP
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (25.00%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (25.00%) Dell
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle