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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 112 140
Rank change year-on-year +2 +28 +45
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 24 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.09% 0.58% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.69% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 9
10th Percentile £390 - £425
25th Percentile £438 £200 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% -18.18% +21.01%
75th Percentile £549 £475 £619
90th Percentile £721 £628 £680
England median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +7.62%

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 1,950 2,032 2,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.68% 84.32% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,263 1,221 1,823
10th Percentile £278 £310 £288
25th Percentile £375 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £591
90th Percentile £665 £680 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 171 168
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.19 £35.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +2.94% +56.11%
75th Percentile £57.57 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.38 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +4 10 £550 -8.33% 17
Cheshire -17 6 £500 +11.11% 2
Cumbria - 5 £400 - 2
Merseyside -3 3 £225 +12.50% 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 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.33%) CICS
2 2 (8.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
2 5 (20.83%) IaaS
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Firewall
2 6 (25.00%) Network Security
3 5 (20.83%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) DB2
2 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) Selenium
1 2 (8.33%) SOAtest
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 6 (25.00%) Banking
2 5 (20.83%) Telecoms
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (8.33%) General Ledger
5 2 (8.33%) Legal
5 2 (8.33%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Automotive
6 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Security Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Test Architect
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Security Architect
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) GCP Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Junior Risk Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Onboarding Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Payments Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Supply Chain Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) J2EE
1 2 (8.33%) JSON
1 2 (8.33%) Web Services
1 2 (8.33%) XML
2 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.33%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (8.33%) VSAM
3 1 (4.17%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) SCADA
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
1 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Cybersecurity
1 13 (54.17%) Information Security
2 10 (41.67%) Risk Management
3 7 (29.17%) Change Management
3 7 (29.17%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) Analytics
4 6 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 6 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 6 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 5 (20.83%) BCP
5 5 (20.83%) Business Continuity
5 5 (20.83%) Business Continuity Planning
5 5 (20.83%) Change Control
5 5 (20.83%) High Availability
5 5 (20.83%) Line Management
5 5 (20.83%) Remediation Plan
5 5 (20.83%) Web Operations
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) COBOL
3 2 (8.33%) JCL
3 2 (8.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Azure Certification
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) CISM
2 2 (8.33%) CISSP
2 2 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.17%) CRISC
3 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) NIST
2 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (12.50%) QA
4 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (8.33%) GRC
5 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (4.17%) GDPR
5 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
5 1 (4.17%) ISO 22301
5 1 (4.17%) ISO 31000
5 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
1 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (20.83%) vSphere
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (8.33%) Ab Initio
2 2 (8.33%) Informatica
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Parasoft
3 1 (4.17%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (4.17%) OneTrust
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow