Risk Management Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Risk Management
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Risk Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 26 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 8 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 4.44% 1.63% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 1.82% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £490 - £368
25th Percentile £513 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £650 £463
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +40.54% +15.63%
75th Percentile £900 - £494
90th Percentile £915 - £505
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £850 £613 £475
% change year-on-year +38.78% +28.95% +18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Risk Management 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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 165 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.11% 89.67% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 111
10th Percentile £357 £287 £213
25th Percentile £438 £340 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £647 £555 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £450 £456
% change year-on-year +16.67% -1.37% -3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.80 £16.75
25th Percentile £36.28 £24.40 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £71.25 £63.75 £61.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.50 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -3.33%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in Cambridge

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Risk Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in Cambridge over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in Cambridge

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Risk Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Datadog
2 1 (12.50%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Programme Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Programme Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Project Support Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Observability
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) AIOps
3 3 (37.50%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) Programme Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (25.00%) GitOps
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) ITSM
4 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) COSO
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) GRC
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 31000
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 9001
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Dynatrace
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow