Risk Assessment Contracts in Manchester

Risk Assessment
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 91 97
Rank change year-on-year +31 +6 +44
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 12 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.34% 0.35% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 0.40% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £394 - £488
25th Percentile £422 £231 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £238 £600
Median % change year-on-year +110.74% -60.42% +50.00%
75th Percentile £570 £244 £619
90th Percentile £640 - £653
North West median daily rate £500 £344 £600
% change year-on-year +45.45% -42.71% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 797 1,246 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.95% 86.59% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 846 1,190
10th Percentile £312 £313 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £589
90th Percentile £668 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 52
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -5.80% +50.76%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £42.81
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +51.99%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in Manchester

Risk Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in Manchester

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in Manchester

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
1 8 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 8 (66.67%) IaaS
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) Firewall
1 9 (75.00%) Network Security
2 8 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.33%) Automotive
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
3 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Risk Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Service Continuity Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
1 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Change Management
1 9 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (75.00%) Information Security
1 9 (75.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 8 (66.67%) BCP
2 8 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 8 (66.67%) Business Continuity Planning
2 8 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (58.33%) Line Management
3 7 (58.33%) Project Delivery
3 7 (58.33%) Web Operations
4 5 (41.67%) Analytics
4 5 (41.67%) High Availability
4 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 1 (8.33%) ITIL
6 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
6 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CISM
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) CRISC
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 22301
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 31000
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 8 (66.67%) vSphere
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow