Risk Management Contracts in the Midlands

Risk Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 62 76
Rank change year-on-year +28 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 89 72 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.65% 2.61% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.31% 3.18% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 56 75
10th Percentile £361 £338 £335
25th Percentile £444 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +1.35%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £606
90th Percentile £697 £668 £650
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £32.00
England median hourly rate £61.50 £52.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +17.13% +393.89% -59.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in the Midlands

Risk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Management in the Midlands

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the Midlands

Risk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Management in the Midlands

Risk Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West Midlands +7 51 £525 +1.94% 70
East Midlands +29 35 £449 -19.19% 41
Risk Management
England

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (4.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.25%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (1.12%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.12%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.85%) AWS
2 12 (13.48%) Azure
3 8 (8.99%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.62%) GCP
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (4.49%) Asana
6 3 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.37%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.37%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.37%) Route 53
7 2 (2.25%) OCI
7 2 (2.25%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.12%) Serverless
8 1 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.12%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) Firewall
2 4 (4.49%) Network Security
3 2 (2.25%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.12%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (1.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.87%) Power BI
2 5 (5.62%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.49%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.12%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 10 (11.24%) JIRA
2 5 (5.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.62%) JUnit
2 5 (5.62%) Maven
2 5 (5.62%) Mockito
3 3 (3.37%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (3.37%) DbUnit
3 3 (3.37%) Git
3 3 (3.37%) jMock
3 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.12%) Ant
5 1 (1.12%) Gradle
5 1 (1.12%) JBehave
5 1 (1.12%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.12%) Selenium
5 1 (1.12%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.12%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (40.45%) Finance
2 32 (35.96%) Social Skills
3 16 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.24%) Influencing Skills
4 10 (11.24%) Legal
5 6 (6.74%) Banking
5 6 (6.74%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.74%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.25%) International Banking
8 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.25%) Law
8 2 (2.25%) Local Government
8 2 (2.25%) Retail
9 1 (1.12%) Billing
9 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.12%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (12.36%) Lead
2 10 (11.24%) Senior
3 9 (10.11%) Analyst
3 9 (10.11%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.87%) Architect
4 7 (7.87%) IT Manager
5 6 (6.74%) Developer
5 6 (6.74%) Programme Manager
6 5 (5.62%) Consultant
6 5 (5.62%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.62%) Security Architect
7 4 (4.49%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.49%) IT Project Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Risk Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) Service Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.37%) Information Assurance Manager
8 3 (3.37%) Information Manager
8 3 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.62%) REST
1 5 (5.62%) SOAP
1 5 (5.62%) Spring
1 5 (5.62%) Web Services
2 4 (4.49%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (4.49%) Hibernate
2 4 (4.49%) JPA
2 4 (4.49%) RESTful
2 4 (4.49%) Spring Boot
2 4 (4.49%) Spring Cloud
3 3 (3.37%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.37%) Bootstrap
3 3 (3.37%) PowerMock
3 3 (3.37%) Spring Batch
3 3 (3.37%) Spring Integration
4 1 (1.12%) J2EE
4 1 (1.12%) LDAP
4 1 (1.12%) OAuth
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.62%) Credit Risk
2 5 (5.62%) Operational Technology
3 3 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.37%) Industry 4.0
3 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.25%) Replication
4 2 (2.25%) SCADA
5 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.12%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Windows
2 7 (7.87%) Linux
3 2 (2.25%) Unix
3 2 (2.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (39.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 32 (35.96%) Agile
3 23 (25.84%) Project Management
4 15 (16.85%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (16.85%) Decision-Making
4 15 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (13.48%) ITIL
6 12 (13.48%) Project Delivery
7 10 (11.24%) Business Strategy
8 9 (10.11%) Analytics
8 9 (10.11%) Change Management
9 8 (8.99%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (8.99%) Contract Management
9 8 (8.99%) Migration
9 8 (8.99%) Roadmaps
9 8 (8.99%) Scrum
9 8 (8.99%) Service Delivery
9 8 (8.99%) Validation
9 8 (8.99%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.24%) SQL
2 7 (7.87%) Java
3 6 (6.74%) Python
4 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.12%) Scala
4 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (14.61%) CISSP
2 10 (11.24%) CISM
3 9 (10.11%) Degree
4 7 (7.87%) CISA
4 7 (7.87%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.62%) GIAC
5 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.37%) SANS
7 2 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.25%) CCSP
7 2 (2.25%) CEH
7 2 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.25%) CRISC
7 2 (2.25%) ISACA
7 2 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) NIST
2 7 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.62%) GDPR
3 5 (5.62%) GRC
3 5 (5.62%) PMO
3 5 (5.62%) SLA
4 4 (4.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (4.49%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.49%) NIST 800
5 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (2.25%) MiFID
5 2 (2.25%) QA
5 2 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.12%) Basel III
6 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.12%) ISO 31000
6 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.12%) NCSC
6 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (4.49%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.49%) Docker
1 4 (4.49%) Postfix
2 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.49%) Grafana
1 4 (4.49%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.25%) CASB
2 2 (2.25%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.12%) Ansible
3 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (7.87%) Oracle
2 5 (5.62%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.49%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.37%) Cisco
4 3 (3.37%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.37%) Remedy
4 3 (3.37%) SAP
5 2 (2.25%) BMC
5 2 (2.25%) Tenable
5 2 (2.25%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.12%) Ariba
6 1 (1.12%) Civica
6 1 (1.12%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.12%) Meraki
6 1 (1.12%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.12%) Planview
6 1 (1.12%) Qualys
6 1 (1.12%) Sybase