Risk Assessment Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Risk Assessment
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Risk Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 25 23
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +15
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 1 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.30% 1.70% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 2.03% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £213 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £225 £200
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% +12.50% -56.52%
75th Percentile - £238 £263
90th Percentile - - £375
North West median daily rate £511 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +2.21% +11.17% -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 269 148 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 80.06% 84.09% 72.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 96 75
10th Percentile £144 £129 £159
25th Percentile £190 £209 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £433 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +1.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £520
90th Percentile £638 £669 £600
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 12
10th Percentile £16.79 - £16.65
25th Percentile £24.72 £12.21 £18.08
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.30 £27.69
Median % change year-on-year +46.71% -37.52% +19.86%
75th Percentile £43.96 £17.44 £37.19
90th Percentile - - £52.60
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £27.00 £34.61
% change year-on-year +66.67% -21.98% +12.52%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Risk Assessment job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Risk Assessment.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 15 August 2026. 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
Liverpool -20 1 £600 +166.67% 2
Risk Assessment
North West

Risk Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Information Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft