Risk Management Contracts in the South East

Risk Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 72 75
Rank change year-on-year +26 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 131 137 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.37% 2.48% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 2.93% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 69 110
10th Percentile £359 £350 £247
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £644 £650 £684
90th Percentile £725 £755 £790
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile £46.30 £50.00 £38.75
25th Percentile £47.58 £54.69 £50.92
Median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £72.40
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% -10.21% +31.74%
75th Percentile £80.53 £68.84 £80.55
90th Percentile £87.46 £69.64 £84.72
England median hourly rate £61.50 £52.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +17.13% +393.89% -58.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,741 4,675 5,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.49% 84.68% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,750 2,738 3,584
10th Percentile £256 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -1.91% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 434 223
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £17.10
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -3.06% +123.23%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.96
England median hourly rate £29.80 £36.33 £36.40
% change year-on-year -17.97% -0.18% +49.47%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Risk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Risk Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in the South East over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the South East

Risk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Management in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Management in the South East over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 6 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
Thames Valley +19 71 £580 +10.48% 53
Berkshire +8 52 £550 +4.76% 33
Hampshire +38 33 £548 -2.67% 31
Oxfordshire - 12 £650 - 19
Buckinghamshire +13 9 £543 +44.67% 11
West Sussex +18 7 £350 - 14
Surrey +1 6 £613 +11.36% 22
Kent +9 5 £675 +67.18% 12
Middlesex - 2 £675 - 7
Sussex - 1 £700 - 15
Risk Management
England

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (4.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.05%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (1.53%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.53%) SAP ECC
3 2 (1.53%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.53%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.76%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.21%) Azure
2 12 (9.16%) AWS
3 6 (4.58%) GCP
4 4 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (2.29%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.53%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.53%) OCI
6 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.53%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.76%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.76%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.76%) Route 53
7 1 (0.76%) SaaS
7 1 (0.76%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.16%) Firewall
1 12 (9.16%) Network Security
2 7 (5.34%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (4.58%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.53%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.53%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (1.53%) VPN
4 2 (1.53%) WAN
5 1 (0.76%) BGP
5 1 (0.76%) DNS
5 1 (0.76%) Internet
5 1 (0.76%) LAN
5 1 (0.76%) MPLS
5 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.53%) Power BI
2 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.76%) Big Data
2 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.76%) GIS
2 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.29%) JIRA
2 2 (1.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.53%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (0.76%) DbUnit
3 1 (0.76%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) jMock
3 1 (0.76%) JUnit
3 1 (0.76%) Maven
3 1 (0.76%) Mockito
General
1 45 (34.35%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.90%) Finance
3 23 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (16.79%) Public Sector
5 14 (10.69%) Telecoms
6 10 (7.63%) Manufacturing
7 7 (5.34%) Legal
8 6 (4.58%) Marketing
8 6 (4.58%) Military
9 4 (3.05%) Electronics
9 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.29%) Law
10 3 (2.29%) Local Government
11 2 (1.53%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.53%) Aviation
11 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.53%) Retail
12 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 23 (17.56%) Senior
2 21 (16.03%) Architect
3 19 (14.50%) Project Manager
4 15 (11.45%) Security Architect
5 10 (7.63%) Security Specialist
6 9 (6.87%) Lead
7 8 (6.11%) Analyst
7 8 (6.11%) Information Security Specialist
7 8 (6.11%) Information Specialist
8 7 (5.34%) IT Manager
9 6 (4.58%) Head of Architecture
9 6 (4.58%) Head of Security
9 6 (4.58%) Programme Manager
9 6 (4.58%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 6 (4.58%) Senior Security Specialist
10 5 (3.82%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 5 (3.82%) Head of Strategy
10 5 (3.82%) Risk Manager
10 5 (3.82%) Security Advisor
10 5 (3.82%) Senior Information Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.58%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (3.82%) JBoss Seam
3 3 (2.29%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.76%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (0.76%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.76%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.76%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.76%) JPA
4 1 (0.76%) Middleware
4 1 (0.76%) PowerMock
4 1 (0.76%) REST
4 1 (0.76%) RESTful
4 1 (0.76%) SOAP
4 1 (0.76%) Spring
4 1 (0.76%) Spring Batch
4 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.76%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (0.76%) Spring Integration
4 1 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.14%) Management Information System
2 10 (7.63%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.34%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.82%) Life Science
5 5 (3.82%) NHS
5 5 (3.82%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.29%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.29%) FPGA
6 3 (2.29%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.29%) Verilog
6 3 (2.29%) VHDL
7 2 (1.53%) CMDB
7 2 (1.53%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.53%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.53%) Freedom of Information Act
7 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (30.53%) Project Management
1 40 (30.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 32 (24.43%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (22.90%) Security Architecture
4 28 (21.37%) Information Security
5 25 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (17.56%) Risk Assessment
7 19 (14.50%) Agile
8 18 (13.74%) Decision-Making
8 18 (13.74%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 15 (11.45%) Change Management
9 15 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (11.45%) Migration
9 15 (11.45%) Project Planning
10 14 (10.69%) PRINCE2
10 14 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (9.92%) Information Assurance
11 13 (9.92%) ITIL
11 13 (9.92%) Roadmaps
12 11 (8.40%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.05%) Java
1 4 (3.05%) Python
2 3 (2.29%) C++
3 2 (1.53%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.76%) Bash
4 1 (0.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (35.88%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.85%) DV Cleared
3 23 (17.56%) Degree
3 23 (17.56%) SC Cleared
4 16 (12.21%) CISSP
5 15 (11.45%) CISM
6 8 (6.11%) PMI Certification
7 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (5.34%) PMP
8 5 (3.82%) CCNA
8 5 (3.82%) CEH
8 5 (3.82%) CISA
8 5 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.82%) Master's Degree
9 4 (3.05%) CRISC
10 3 (2.29%) APMP
10 3 (2.29%) CCNP
10 3 (2.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (1.53%) ISEB
11 2 (1.53%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (12.98%) NIST
3 16 (12.21%) GDPR
4 12 (9.16%) NCSC
5 9 (6.87%) COBIT
6 7 (5.34%) PMO
7 5 (3.82%) JSP 440
8 4 (3.05%) GRC
8 4 (3.05%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.53%) HIPAA
9 2 (1.53%) ISO 9001
9 2 (1.53%) QA
9 2 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.76%) COSO
10 1 (0.76%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.76%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.76%) ITGC
10 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (2.29%) Firmware
2 2 (1.53%) Docker
3 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.76%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (2.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (0.76%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.76%) Grafana
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (12.21%) SAP
2 14 (10.69%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.58%) Darktrace
3 6 (4.58%) Oracle
4 5 (3.82%) Google
5 3 (2.29%) Algorithmics
5 3 (2.29%) Cisco
5 3 (2.29%) Intel
5 3 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.53%) Databricks
6 2 (1.53%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.53%) Juniper
6 2 (1.53%) Splunk
7 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.76%) Computacenter
7 1 (0.76%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.76%) NEC
7 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.76%) Snow
7 1 (0.76%) VMware