Risk Register Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Risk Register
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Risk Register skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Risk Register 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.36% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £534 £450 £510
% change year-on-year +18.67% -11.76% -15.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Risk Register 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 729 543 631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.31% 90.20% 82.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 371 393
10th Percentile £263 £200 £238
25th Percentile £402 £395 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -4.39%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £575
90th Percentile £650 £709 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 13 44
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £13.48
25th Percentile £16.08 £22.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% +6.84% +112.09%
75th Percentile £23.58 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £29.07 £56.85 £68.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £21.59 £23.00
% change year-on-year -0.60% -6.13% +29.94%

Risk Register
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Risk Register relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Risk Register job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Risk Register
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Risk Register.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Risk Register

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Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Risk Register.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Risk Register

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Healthcare Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Procurement Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
1 1 (33.33%) Coaching
1 1 (33.33%) Contract Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft