Risk Assessment Contracts in the West Midlands

Risk Assessment
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 91 108 130
Rank change year-on-year +17 +22 +31
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 6 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% 0.21% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.24% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £422 £415 £481
25th Percentile £476 £438 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £483 £490
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -1.53% -21.60%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £523
90th Percentile £577 £555 £539
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,637 2,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.26% 83.91% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 1,085 1,445
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £13.96 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £24.10 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.67 £57.75 £51.25
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Assessment in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Assessment in the West Midlands

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Assessment in the West Midlands

Risk Assessment
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +14 4 £525 +8.81% 9
Warwickshire -2 1 £393 -7.53% 2
Risk Assessment
England

Risk Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) OCI
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (16.67%) PMO Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Resilience Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) PMI
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (16.67%) Business Impact Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Key Management
4 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Workshops
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
4 1 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) OCP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PMO
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Planview