Risk Assessment Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Risk Assessment
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Risk Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 61 80
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 +32
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.66% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £500 £538 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% - +26.37%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £588
90th Percentile £590 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 790 499 1,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.72% 88.63% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 308 641
10th Percentile £297 £263 £281
25th Percentile £411 £362 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £657 £650 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 27
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.08 £11.49
25th Percentile £14.25 £23.75 £12.34
Median hourly rate £18.87 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.49% +118.73% -57.21%
75th Percentile £23.71 £41.50 £22.36
90th Percentile £74.00 £99.86 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.27 £27.50 £15.23
% change year-on-year -19.04% +80.56% +43.27%

Risk Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Risk Assessment job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Assessment in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Assessment in West Yorkshire

Risk Assessment
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
Leeds - 4 £514 - 2
Risk Assessment
Yorkshire

Risk Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (16.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Data Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Implementation Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Implementation Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Project Implementation Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Flash
1 2 (33.33%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Blockchain
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Application Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 2 (33.33%) Data Collection
3 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 2 (33.33%) Data Security
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Federated Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Rust
1 2 (33.33%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCSK
1 2 (33.33%) CEH
1 2 (33.33%) CISA
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) OSCP
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (33.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (16.67%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle