Risk Management Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Risk Management
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Risk Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 23 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 +14
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 8 11 16
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 3.88% 6.47% 10.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 7.01% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile £345 £358 £315
25th Percentile £375 £463 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £570 £435
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +31.03% -24.87%
75th Percentile £488 £656 -
90th Percentile £495 £716 £459
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £12.25
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £24.35
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +370.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 163 157 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 79.13% 92.35% 75.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 97 56
10th Percentile £291 £158 £241
25th Percentile £398 £306 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +31.34%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £630
90th Percentile £681 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 22
10th Percentile - £13.29 -
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.78 £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £24.08 £15.51
Median % change year-on-year -26.40% +55.27% +0.03%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.04 £23.54
90th Percentile - £70.62 £31.88
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Risk Management job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Risk Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in Northern Ireland

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Risk Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 27 May 2026. 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
County Antrim -1 6 £400 -29.82% 12
Risk Management
UK

Risk Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
1 1 (12.50%) Serverless
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Front Office
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Legal
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Change Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Change Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) e-Learning
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
4 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Management
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Go
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) HNC
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) EMIR
1 1 (12.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Google