Risk Management Contracts

Risk Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Risk Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Risk Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 72 96
Rank change year-on-year +8 +24 +26
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,343 1,900 2,393
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.10% 3.18% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 3.53% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 1,098 1,642
10th Percentile £356 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £700 £728 £662
90th Percentile £825 £875 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 232 57
10th Percentile £12.25 - £23.20
25th Percentile £30.12 £9.80 £25.68
Median hourly rate £50.00 £10.63 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +370.37% -67.19% -2.92%
75th Percentile £61.25 £12.02 £56.00
90th Percentile £82.05 £71.13 £66.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £9.80 £47.03
% change year-on-year +410.20% -79.16% +44.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Risk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Management.

Daily rate trend for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Management.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England 0 1,155 £550 -8.33% 935
UK excluding London +15 638 £525 -4.55% 496
London +8 600 £600 -7.69% 480
Work from Home +30 454 £541 -9.79% 384
North of England +23 190 £550 +10.00% 113
South East -5 135 £525 -4.55% 129
North West +26 119 £668 +33.50% 70
South West -15 110 £520 -20.00% 69
Scotland +22 78 £475 -5.00% 44
Midlands +2 70 £525 +2.44% 73
Yorkshire -2 65 £488 -2.50% 29
West Midlands +7 55 £515 -6.36% 46
East of England +14 28 £388 -27.91% 49
Wales +29 14 £600 +41.18% 20
Northern Ireland +18 14 £435 -12.25% 9
East Midlands +13 14 £555 +38.75% 26
North East +25 8 £590 +31.11% 14
Isle of Man - 2 - - 1

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 38 (2.83%) Confluence
2 37 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.79%) SAS
4 18 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.22%) Apache
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.22%) nginx
8 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.074%) CMS
9 1 (0.074%) IIS
9 1 (0.074%) Mendix
9 1 (0.074%) Moodle
Applications
1 72 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (4.47%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (3.20%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.74%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.74%) Aligne
2 10 (0.74%) ION MarketView
2 10 (0.74%) Primavera
3 6 (0.45%) Endur
3 6 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 5 (0.37%) Shopify
4 5 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.30%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.30%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.22%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.15%) Bloomberg AIM
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 110 (8.19%) Azure
2 48 (3.57%) AWS
3 35 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (2.46%) SaaS
5 30 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (1.56%) Power Platform
7 17 (1.27%) IaaS
8 14 (1.04%) GCP
9 12 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (0.89%) PaaS
10 11 (0.82%) Entra ID
11 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (0.60%) WhatsApp
13 7 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (0.45%) GitHub
14 6 (0.45%) Kong
15 5 (0.37%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (0.37%) Amazon S3
15 5 (0.37%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 91 (6.78%) Firewall
2 57 (4.24%) VPN
3 56 (4.17%) Network Security
4 23 (1.71%) Structured Cabling
5 18 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (1.04%) FIX Connectivity
7 11 (0.82%) PPP
7 11 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.74%) DNS
8 10 (0.74%) SAN
9 9 (0.67%) DWDM
9 9 (0.67%) Intranet
10 8 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (0.60%) Wireless
11 4 (0.30%) DHCP
11 4 (0.30%) DMZ
11 4 (0.30%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.30%) LAN
11 4 (0.30%) VLAN
11 4 (0.30%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (1.64%) SQL Server
2 19 (1.41%) Relational Database
3 18 (1.34%) Power BI
4 11 (0.82%) Metadata
4 11 (0.82%) MongoDB
5 7 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.52%) KDB
6 6 (0.45%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.37%) Data Mart
7 5 (0.37%) MySQL
7 5 (0.37%) OLAP
7 5 (0.37%) OLTP
7 5 (0.37%) Oracle OLAP
8 4 (0.30%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.30%) Tableau
9 3 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.22%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 76 (5.66%) JIRA
2 13 (0.97%) TeamCity
3 12 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (0.45%) Git
6 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.30%) LoadRunner
6 4 (0.30%) NeoLoad
6 4 (0.30%) Sourcetree
7 3 (0.22%) GitLab
7 3 (0.22%) Maven
8 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.074%) Ant
9 1 (0.074%) Babel
9 1 (0.074%) MLflow
9 1 (0.074%) Selenium
9 1 (0.074%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.074%) VisualWorks
9 1 (0.074%) webpack
General
1 407 (30.31%) Finance
2 398 (29.64%) Social Skills
3 182 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 104 (7.74%) Banking
6 76 (5.66%) Legal
7 68 (5.06%) Front Office
8 56 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
9 51 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (3.20%) Marketing
11 40 (2.98%) Telecoms
12 36 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (2.16%) Investment Banking
14 26 (1.94%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.86%) Retail
16 23 (1.71%) Financial Institution
17 22 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 21 (1.56%) Local Government
19 16 (1.19%) Electronics
20 12 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 225 (16.75%) Project Manager
2 199 (14.82%) Analyst
3 166 (12.36%) Architect
4 139 (10.35%) Lead
5 117 (8.71%) Senior
6 93 (6.92%) Consultant
7 74 (5.51%) Security Architect
8 62 (4.62%) Business Analyst
9 55 (4.10%) Developer
10 50 (3.72%) Senior Manager
11 45 (3.35%) Technical Architect
12 38 (2.83%) Security Consultant
13 37 (2.76%) IT Manager
13 37 (2.76%) Lead Architect
14 33 (2.46%) Risk Analyst
14 33 (2.46%) Technical Leader
15 32 (2.38%) Security Analyst
16 31 (2.31%) Risk Manager
16 31 (2.31%) Security Manager
17 29 (2.16%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.43%) Node.js
2 36 (2.68%) ISPF
3 19 (1.41%) XML
4 16 (1.19%) FIX Protocol
5 13 (0.97%) Kafka
5 13 (0.97%) SAML
6 12 (0.89%) .NET
6 12 (0.89%) OAuth
7 11 (0.82%) CSS
7 11 (0.82%) OpenID
8 10 (0.74%) HTML
8 10 (0.74%) SailPoint
8 10 (0.74%) Web Services
9 9 (0.67%) Middleware
10 8 (0.60%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.60%) J2EE
10 8 (0.60%) LDAP
10 8 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (0.60%) Spring
11 6 (0.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 146 (10.87%) Management Information System
2 42 (3.13%) Derivative
2 42 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 39 (2.90%) Mainframe
4 38 (2.83%) Security Posture
5 35 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
6 32 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 25 (1.86%) Data Centre
8 21 (1.56%) Fixed Income
9 20 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 19 (1.41%) Market Risk
11 18 (1.34%) Operational Technology
12 17 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (1.27%) NHS
13 15 (1.12%) Freedom of Information
13 15 (1.12%) Onboarding
13 15 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.04%) Credit Risk
14 14 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
15 13 (0.97%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 122 (9.08%) Windows
2 55 (4.10%) Linux
3 47 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 44 (3.28%) Android
4 44 (3.28%) Apple iOS
5 38 (2.83%) Unix
5 38 (2.83%) zOS
6 10 (0.74%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.074%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (25.61%) Project Management
2 276 (20.55%) Agile
3 258 (19.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 253 (18.84%) Cybersecurity
5 194 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (12.36%) Information Security
7 151 (11.24%) Project Delivery
8 135 (10.05%) Change Management
9 125 (9.31%) PRINCE2
10 114 (8.49%) Security Architecture
11 113 (8.41%) DevOps
12 112 (8.34%) Decision-Making
13 108 (8.04%) Roadmaps
14 101 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 89 (6.63%) Project Planning
16 80 (5.96%) ITIL
17 71 (5.29%) Migration
18 70 (5.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 69 (5.14%) Threat Intelligence
20 68 (5.06%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 90 (6.70%) SQL
2 83 (6.18%) Python
3 41 (3.05%) PowerShell
4 40 (2.98%) Java
5 36 (2.68%) JCL
6 33 (2.46%) REXX
7 24 (1.79%) C#
8 20 (1.49%) Assembly Language
9 18 (1.34%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.04%) CLIST
11 13 (0.97%) C++
12 6 (0.45%) Scala
13 4 (0.30%) C
13 4 (0.30%) VBA
14 3 (0.22%) ABAP
14 3 (0.22%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.22%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.22%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.22%) Perl
14 3 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 246 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 207 (15.41%) Degree
3 175 (13.03%) SC Cleared
4 114 (8.49%) CISSP
5 83 (6.18%) CISM
6 68 (5.06%) DV Cleared
7 60 (4.47%) PMI Certification
8 59 (4.39%) PMP
9 52 (3.87%) CISA
10 45 (3.35%) CRISC
11 35 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (2.38%) Master's Degree
13 28 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 19 (1.41%) SANS
16 15 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 14 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
18 13 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Certification
19 10 (0.74%) CCSK
20 8 (0.60%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (9.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 132 (9.83%) NIST
2 99 (7.37%) PMO
3 83 (6.18%) QA
4 56 (4.17%) GRC
5 53 (3.95%) GDPR
6 37 (2.76%) COBIT
7 36 (2.68%) PCI DSS
8 32 (2.38%) Data Quality
9 23 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (1.34%) NIST 800
11 17 (1.27%) NCSC
12 16 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 16 (1.19%) HIPAA
13 15 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 12 (0.89%) ISO 31000
14 12 (0.89%) SLA
15 11 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.60%) EMIR
16 8 (0.60%) MiFID
System Software
1 36 (2.68%) Time Sharing Option
2 15 (1.12%) ACF2
2 15 (1.12%) RACF
3 14 (1.04%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.82%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 11 (0.82%) Microcode
5 8 (0.60%) Docker
6 3 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.074%) Firmware
8 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (1.79%) OMEGAMON
2 12 (0.89%) Grafana
2 12 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (0.74%) Terraform
4 9 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (0.45%) Ansible
6 5 (0.37%) SCCM
7 4 (0.30%) PingFederate
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.15%) CEMLI
9 2 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.15%) Nagios
9 2 (0.15%) Nessus
9 2 (0.15%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.15%) OpenView
10 1 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.074%) CASB
10 1 (0.074%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.074%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.074%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 133 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 62 (4.62%) SAP
3 54 (4.02%) IBM
4 48 (3.57%) Oracle
5 29 (2.16%) Splunk
6 21 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.41%) Broadcom
7 19 (1.41%) ION Trading
7 19 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.19%) Adobe
8 16 (1.19%) Bloomberg
8 16 (1.19%) Google
8 16 (1.19%) Tradeweb
9 15 (1.12%) MarketAxess
10 12 (0.89%) Murex
11 10 (0.74%) Cisco
11 10 (0.74%) Qualys
12 9 (0.67%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.60%) BT
13 8 (0.60%) CA