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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 8 15 9
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 3.51% 6.25% 5.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 6.88% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 4
10th Percentile £340 £300 £314
25th Percentile £363 £375 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £550 £444
Median % change year-on-year -28.41% +23.94% -17.19%
75th Percentile £439 £631 £581
90th Percentile £476 £713 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92.50 - £37.50
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £97.50 - £42.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £49.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.47% -13.91% +16.16%

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 201 218 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 88.16% 90.83% 73.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 105 60
10th Percentile £258 £263 £150
25th Percentile £363 £325 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +15.15% +3.13%
75th Percentile £645 £575 £556
90th Percentile £694 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 52 18
10th Percentile £14.50 £12.75 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.63 £14.78 £21.19
Median hourly rate £43.96 £17.30 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +154.10% -28.45% +79.64%
75th Percentile - £25.15 -
90th Percentile £44.50 - £40.25
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% -3.67%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 £375 -31.82% 9
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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) GCP
1 2 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Front Office
4 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Change Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Change Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) Project Management
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Go
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
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 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft