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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 77 70
Rank change year-on-year +32 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 85 62 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.18% 2.23% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 2.73% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 47 60
10th Percentile £388 £406 £320
25th Percentile £422 £456 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +13.51% -9.31%
75th Percentile £538 £591 £591
90th Percentile £600 £688 £659
England median daily rate £580 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +5.45% -8.33% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £29.38
90th Percentile - - £30.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £10.63
% change year-on-year +30.00% +370.37% -67.19%

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 1,798 2,269 2,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.35% 81.53% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,181 1,527 1,998
10th Percentile £205 £234 £258
25th Percentile £356 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 173 99
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.40
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.51
Median hourly rate £18.63 £19.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -15.22% +27.62%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £44.25
90th Percentile £47.00 £55.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

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 30 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 30 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 +18 55 £500 +5.26% 330
East Midlands +27 27 £449 -22.34% 234
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 3 (3.53%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.18%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.35%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (1.18%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.18%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.82%) AWS
2 7 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (8.24%) Amazon S3
2 7 (8.24%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (7.06%) Azure
4 5 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (4.71%) AWS KMS
5 4 (4.71%) Route 53
6 2 (2.35%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.35%) OCI
6 2 (2.35%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.18%) GCP
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.18%) Serverless
7 1 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.18%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Firewall
2 5 (5.88%) Network Security
3 2 (2.35%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (2.35%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.24%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (8.24%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.06%) DynamoDB
3 5 (5.88%) Power BI
4 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.18%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Jenkins
1 8 (9.41%) JUnit
1 8 (9.41%) Maven
1 8 (9.41%) Mockito
2 6 (7.06%) Git
2 6 (7.06%) SonarQube
3 4 (4.71%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (4.71%) DbUnit
3 4 (4.71%) JIRA
3 4 (4.71%) jMock
4 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.18%) Ant
5 1 (1.18%) Gradle
5 1 (1.18%) JBehave
5 1 (1.18%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.18%) Selenium
5 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (36.47%) Finance
2 27 (31.76%) Social Skills
3 19 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.94%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.41%) Legal
6 5 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.71%) Banking
7 4 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.71%) Law
8 3 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Billing
9 2 (2.35%) Local Government
9 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.18%) Games
10 1 (1.18%) Marketing
10 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (14.12%) Analyst
2 11 (12.94%) Lead
3 10 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 9 (10.59%) Developer
4 9 (10.59%) Senior
5 8 (9.41%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.06%) Programme Manager
7 5 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.88%) IT Manager
8 4 (4.71%) Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Consultant
8 4 (4.71%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (4.71%) PMO Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Service Manager
8 4 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.53%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) IT Project Manager
9 3 (3.53%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.41%) REST
1 8 (9.41%) SOAP
1 8 (9.41%) Spring
2 7 (8.24%) ActiveMQ
2 7 (8.24%) JPA
2 7 (8.24%) Spring Boot
2 7 (8.24%) Spring Cloud
3 6 (7.06%) AngularJS
3 6 (7.06%) Bootstrap
3 6 (7.06%) Web Services
4 5 (5.88%) Hibernate
4 5 (5.88%) RESTful
5 4 (4.71%) PowerMock
5 4 (4.71%) Spring Batch
5 4 (4.71%) Spring Integration
6 2 (2.35%) FIDO
7 1 (1.18%) J2EE
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.53%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.53%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.35%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.35%) Replication
4 2 (2.35%) SCADA
5 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.18%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.18%) NHS
5 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.24%) Linux
2 6 (7.06%) Windows
3 2 (2.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (38.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (35.29%) Agile
3 18 (21.18%) Project Management
4 17 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 16 (18.82%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (15.29%) Scrum
7 12 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (12.94%) Change Management
8 11 (12.94%) Project Delivery
9 10 (11.76%) ITIL
10 9 (10.59%) DevOps
10 9 (10.59%) TDD
11 8 (9.41%) Resource Allocation
11 8 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (8.24%) Business Strategy
12 7 (8.24%) Microservices
12 7 (8.24%) Migration
12 7 (8.24%) Regulatory Compliance
12 7 (8.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.76%) Java
2 7 (8.24%) SQL
3 2 (2.35%) Python
4 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.18%) Scala
4 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.76%) CISM
2 10 (11.76%) CISSP
3 9 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.24%) Degree
5 5 (5.88%) CISA
6 4 (4.71%) CRISC
6 4 (4.71%) GIAC
7 2 (2.35%) ISACA
7 2 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.35%) SANS
8 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.18%) CBAP
8 1 (1.18%) CEH
8 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.94%) NIST
2 8 (9.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (8.24%) GDPR
3 7 (8.24%) GRC
4 5 (5.88%) NIST 800
5 4 (4.71%) PMO
6 3 (3.53%) HIPAA
6 3 (3.53%) QA
7 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (2.35%) MiFID
7 2 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (2.35%) SLA
8 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.18%) Basel III
8 1 (1.18%) COBIT
8 1 (1.18%) NCSC
8 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (8.24%) Docker
2 6 (7.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.88%) Postfix
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (8.24%) Grafana
1 7 (8.24%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.35%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (5.88%) Atlassian
1 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 5 (5.88%) Oracle
2 4 (4.71%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (4.71%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.53%) Remedy
3 3 (3.53%) SAP
4 2 (2.35%) BMC
4 2 (2.35%) Cisco
4 2 (2.35%) Tenable
5 1 (1.18%) Ariba
5 1 (1.18%) Civica
5 1 (1.18%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.18%) Cognos
5 1 (1.18%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.18%) Qualys
5 1 (1.18%) Sybase