Risk Management Contracts in Edinburgh

Risk Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Risk Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Management over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 57 61
Rank change year-on-year +22 +4 +32
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 36 21 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.50% 2.41% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% 2.83% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 25
10th Percentile £343 £405 £235
25th Percentile £413 £425 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £588
90th Percentile £548 £710 £630
Scotland median daily rate £471 £463 £529
% change year-on-year +1.84% -12.53% +0.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 623 741 1,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.26% 84.88% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 416 775
10th Percentile £223 £213 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -4.47% -1.04%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £601
Scotland median daily rate £463 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +1.70% -4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 6
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.22 £17.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.36
Median hourly rate £19.37 £19.17 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% -40.25% +42.92%
75th Percentile £28.38 £60.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £62.00 - £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.62 £14.50
% change year-on-year -2.98% +42.17% -61.26%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in Edinburgh

Risk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Management in Edinburgh

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in Edinburgh

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.78%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) JUnit
2 1 (2.78%) MSTest
2 1 (2.78%) NUnit
2 1 (2.78%) Postman
2 1 (2.78%) Ranorex
2 1 (2.78%) Selenium
2 1 (2.78%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (38.89%) Finance
3 12 (33.33%) Banking
4 8 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 7 (19.44%) Retail Banking
6 4 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (13.89%) Programme Manager
2 4 (11.11%) Analyst
2 4 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 4 (11.11%) Senior
3 3 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 3 (8.33%) Test Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Data Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Information Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Information Security Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Programme Test Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Security Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Security Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (5.56%) Senior Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Technical Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) .NET
1 1 (2.78%) JSON
1 1 (2.78%) Kafka
1 1 (2.78%) Playwright
1 1 (2.78%) REST
1 1 (2.78%) SOAP
1 1 (2.78%) WebSockets
1 1 (2.78%) XML
1 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Unix
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Agile
2 11 (30.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (22.22%) Project Management
5 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (19.44%) DevOps
6 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (13.89%) Service Delivery
8 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 4 (11.11%) Roadmaps
9 3 (8.33%) Budgeting
9 3 (8.33%) Change Control
9 3 (8.33%) Change Management
9 3 (8.33%) Cloud Security
9 3 (8.33%) Decision-Making
9 3 (8.33%) Portfolio Management
9 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Identification
9 3 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.78%) C#
2 1 (2.78%) Java
2 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) CISM
2 3 (8.33%) CRISC
3 2 (5.56%) CISA
3 2 (5.56%) CISSP
3 2 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 2 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) CEH
4 1 (2.78%) GCIH
4 1 (2.78%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) PMO
2 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.56%) P3O
2 2 (5.56%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) CyberArk
1 2 (5.56%) Splunk
1 2 (5.56%) Tenable
1 2 (5.56%) Thycotic
2 1 (2.78%) IBM
2 1 (2.78%) Qualys
2 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.78%) StreamSets