Risk Assessment Contracts in the South West

Risk Assessment
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 94 122 144
Rank change year-on-year +28 +22 +15
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 16 31 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.95% 0.97% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.17% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 20
10th Percentile £369 £194 £553
25th Percentile £501 £300 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +39.41% -32.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £620 £530 £719
90th Percentile £649 £609 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £58.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £59.73
Median hourly rate £70.00 £14.54 £68.56
Median % change year-on-year +381.43% -78.79% +22.43%
75th Percentile - - £72.98
90th Percentile - - -
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
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,522 2,648 3,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.33% 82.98% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 1,690 2,398
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 335 334
10th Percentile £18.36 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.61 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.37
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in the South West

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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 Assessment within the South 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
Bristol +20 5 £497 +17.00% 5
Somerset +2 4 £610 +3.83% 3
Wiltshire +32 3 £585 +26.49% 1
Devon - 3 - - 3
Gloucestershire - 1 £715 - 8
Risk Assessment
England

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) 4G
1 1 (6.25%) 5G
1 1 (6.25%) PBX
1 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
1 1 (6.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Metadata
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Electronics
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
5 1 (6.25%) Military
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Security Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Contracts Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Service Owner
4 1 (6.25%) Design Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Finance Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Finance Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Mechanical Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Security Advisor
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Transition Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Transition Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (31.25%) Change Management
2 5 (31.25%) Project Management
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (25.00%) Data Governance Strategy
3 4 (25.00%) Data Management
3 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 4 (25.00%) Supplier Management
4 3 (18.75%) Business Case
4 3 (18.75%) Culture Change
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Engagement
4 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (18.75%) Quality Management
4 3 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) CISA
2 3 (18.75%) CISM
2 3 (18.75%) CISSP
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Chartered Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) CRISC
3 2 (12.50%) ISACA
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.25%) GRC
3 1 (6.25%) NIST
3 1 (6.25%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) Ericsson
2 1 (6.25%) F5
2 1 (6.25%) Juniper
2 1 (6.25%) Nokia
2 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.25%) SAP