Risk Register Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Risk Register
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Risk Register skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 124 112
Rank change year-on-year -33 -12 +67
Contract jobs citing Risk Register 8 2 18
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.25% 0.087% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.10% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 15
10th Percentile £318 £388 £450
25th Percentile £327 £406 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £438 £570
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -23.25% -5.00%
75th Percentile £470 £469 £675
90th Percentile £473 £488 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -8.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,732 1,993 2,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.24% 86.58% 84.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,708 1,254 1,492
10th Percentile £249 £250 £251
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £589
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 71 92
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.97
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% -4.35% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.91 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

Risk Register
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Risk Register job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Risk Register

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Register in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Register in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Risk Register

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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 Register within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 December 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 -22 7 £450 -10.00% 15
East Midlands -17 2 £403 +7.40% 12
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (25.00%) IaaS
1 2 (25.00%) PaaS
1 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Compliance Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Coordinator
2 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Architect
2 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Healthcare Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Information Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Procurement Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
1 3 (37.50%) Contract Management
1 3 (37.50%) ITSM
1 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (25.00%) Coaching
2 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Demand Management
2 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (25.00%) SLA
4 1 (12.50%) GRC
4 1 (12.50%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) SAP