Risk Assessment Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Risk Assessment
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Risk Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 43 48
Rank change year-on-year -47 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.74% 0.66% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.69% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £451 £575 £950
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £600 £1,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -40.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £497 £625 £1,050
90th Percentile £594 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £600 £1,000
% change year-on-year -21.67% -40.00% +81.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 877 290 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 93.20% 95.71% 92.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 187 188
10th Percentile £355 £250 £359
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -1.04% -12.73%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £488 £453
% change year-on-year -0.10% +7.62% -17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile £15.74 £16.08 -
25th Percentile £16.34 £17.38 £10.90
Median hourly rate £18.01 £18.21 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -17.25% +91.30%
75th Percentile £19.01 £18.36 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 £18.45 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £18.21 £13.23
% change year-on-year -8.43% +37.60% +24.46%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Risk Assessment job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in Sheffield

Risk Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (42.86%) BIG-IP
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) Network Security
4 1 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (14.29%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Project Management
1 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) API Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) KYC
3 2 (28.57%) Major Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) Release Management
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Runbook
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) VBA
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CEH
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) F5
1 3 (42.86%) Infoblox
2 2 (28.57%) AppDynamics
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) BiZZdesign