Risk Assessment Contract Job Trends in the South West

Risk Assessment
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Risk Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 125 137
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 +26
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 9 8 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.42% 0.33% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.39% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 11
10th Percentile £534 £280 £490
25th Percentile £600 - £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +84.38% -33.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £750 £619 £732
90th Percentile - £653 £788
England median daily rate £540 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £56.50 £63.25 £72.84
% change year-on-year -10.67% -13.16% +96.16%

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 1,898 2,029 2,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.11% 84.47% 87.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,218 1,842
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £378 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £719
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 149 286
10th Percentile £15.20 £15.28 £20.38
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.87 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Risk Assessment job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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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 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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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 5 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
Wiltshire +9 6 £750 +18.81%
Bristol -2 1 - - 4
Gloucestershire - 1 £725 - 2
Risk Assessment
England

Risk Assessment
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Stack
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
General
1 3 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Scientist
3 1 (11.11%) Project Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
2 4 (44.44%) Security Management
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Compliance Audit
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (11.11%) Anomaly Detection
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
5 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
5 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bicep
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) R
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (22.22%) CISM
4 2 (22.22%) CISSP
5 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (11.11%) CCSP
5 1 (11.11%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (11.11%) CITP
5 1 (11.11%) CRISC
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (11.11%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) NCSC
2 2 (22.22%) NIST
3 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (11.11%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Juniper
2 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle