Risk Analysis Contract Job Trends in the South West

Risk Analysis
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Risk Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 129 127
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +52
Contract jobs citing Risk Analysis 3 4 28
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.13% 0.17% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.19% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £118
25th Percentile £456 - £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £540 £350
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +54.29% -
75th Percentile £519 - £369
90th Percentile - - £380
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 21
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £83.40
Median % change year-on-year - -28.06% +13.07%
England median hourly rate £47.00 £40.00 £83.40
% change year-on-year +17.50% -52.04% +5.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Risk Analysis 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,952 2,057 2,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 86.49% 85.39% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 1,222 1,829
10th Percentile £248 £306 £300
25th Percentile £400 £423 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £719
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 155 285
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.55 £19.55
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £64.88 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £66.63 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% -21.42% +26.76%

Risk Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Risk Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Risk Analysis job vacancy trend in the South West

Risk Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Risk Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Risk Analysis

Risk Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Risk Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Risk Analysis

Risk Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Analysis within the South West region over the 6 months to 22 November 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
Bristol -5 2 - - 8
Wiltshire - 1 £488 - 3
Risk Analysis
England

Risk Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (66.67%) Akamai
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Artefact Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) OSCP
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GRC
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft