Risk Assessment Contracts in the Midlands

Risk Assessment
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 100 128 154
Rank change year-on-year +28 +26 +41
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 11 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.57% 0.18% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.22% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 6
10th Percentile £259 £355 -
25th Percentile £327 £400 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -7.22% -20.82%
75th Percentile £522 £523 £499
90th Percentile £544 £550 £525
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +16 6 £525 +8.81% 16
East Midlands +14 5 £315 -10.00% 22
Risk Assessment
England

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) OCI
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (9.09%) PMO Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Product Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Resilience Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) OpenID
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) PMI
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
2 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) Supplier Management
3 2 (18.18%) Business Case
3 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
3 2 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) PMI Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) OCP
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMP
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PMO
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) Planview
1 1 (9.09%) VMware