Risk Management Contract Job Trends in the North East

Risk Management
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Risk Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 34 31
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 +31
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 2 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.49% 3.38% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 3.65% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £150
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +325.00% -66.67%
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 362 274 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 88.29% 92.57% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 130 148
10th Percentile £176 £310 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +10.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £530 £593 £575
90th Percentile £588 £722 £712
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 24 13
10th Percentile £15.17 £14.03 £15.47
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £18.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +159.46% -59.94% +29.17%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 -
90th Percentile £57.00 - £64.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Risk Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Risk Management job vacancy trend in the North East

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Risk Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Risk Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Tyne and Wear -7 2 £550 +22.22% 16
Risk Management
England

Risk Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Manager
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Release Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG