Risk Assessment Contracts in the North West

Risk Assessment
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 123 158
Rank change year-on-year +18 +35 +6
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 20 16 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.02% 0.58% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.68% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 6
10th Percentile £425 £200 £494
25th Percentile £447 £231 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £606
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -25.77% +38.43%
75th Percentile £501 £475 £694
90th Percentile £565 £506 £738
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +13.64%
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 - -
England median hourly rate £61.50 £14.54 £68.27
% change year-on-year +322.94% -78.70% +8.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,774 2,370 2,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.14% 86.37% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 1,513 2,045
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 246 142
10th Percentile £16.03 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.36 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £21.56 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% -38.41% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.66 £48.56
90th Percentile £84.51 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester +19 11 £495 +1.59% 17
Cheshire +3 6 £447 -0.67% 9
Merseyside -2 1 - - 3
Lancashire - 1 £500 - 9
Cumbria - 1 - - 1
Risk Assessment
England

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.00%) CICS
2 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
1 8 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 8 (40.00%) IaaS
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) Firewall
2 8 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 8 (40.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.00%) DB2
2 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.00%) Selenium
1 2 (10.00%) SOAtest
General
1 8 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Legal
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) General Ledger
3 2 (10.00%) Local Government
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Automotive
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
1 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) ICT Manager
4 2 (10.00%) ICT Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Test Architect
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Services Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Mainframe Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Supply Chain Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) J2EE
1 2 (10.00%) JSON
1 2 (10.00%) Web Services
1 2 (10.00%) XML
2 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (10.00%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (10.00%) VSAM
2 1 (5.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) SCADA
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
1 8 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Business Continuity
2 10 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (45.00%) BCP
3 9 (45.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 9 (45.00%) Change Management
3 9 (45.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (45.00%) Information Security
3 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (45.00%) Project Delivery
4 8 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 7 (35.00%) Line Management
5 7 (35.00%) Web Operations
6 6 (30.00%) Analytics
7 5 (25.00%) High Availability
7 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (25.00%) Project Management
7 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
8 4 (20.00%) Budget Management
8 4 (20.00%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) COBOL
3 2 (10.00%) JCL
3 2 (10.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.00%) CISM
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) GRC
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 22301
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 31000
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (40.00%) vSphere
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) VMware
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Ab Initio
3 2 (10.00%) Informatica
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Parasoft
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow