Risk Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Risk Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 63 56
Rank change year-on-year +25 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 72 84 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.77% 3.13% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.13% 3.59% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 32 62
10th Percentile £362 £314 £57
25th Percentile £465 £359 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -2.78% +3.35%
75th Percentile £638 £553 £636
90th Percentile £700 £646 £700
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £46.30 £63.27 £72.33
25th Percentile £47.15 £64.42 £74.02
Median hourly rate £61.50 £67.59 £78.70
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% -14.11% -
75th Percentile £75.03 £69.51 £84.02
90th Percentile £87.50 £69.91 £86.11
South East median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £72.40
% change year-on-year -5.39% -10.21% +31.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Risk Management in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Management in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +9 53 £525 - 65
Oxfordshire - 12 £650 - 35
Buckinghamshire +16 9 £543 +44.67% 45
Risk Management
South East

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 4 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.39%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.11%) AWS
2 7 (9.72%) Azure
3 4 (5.56%) GCP
4 3 (4.17%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.78%) Smartsheet
5 2 (2.78%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.39%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.39%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.39%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.50%) Network Security
2 8 (11.11%) Firewall
3 7 (9.72%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (2.78%) LAN
5 2 (2.78%) WAN
6 1 (1.39%) BGP
6 1 (1.39%) DNS
6 1 (1.39%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.39%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.39%) Big Data
2 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.39%) GIS
2 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (1.39%) DbUnit
2 1 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.39%) jMock
2 1 (1.39%) JUnit
2 1 (1.39%) Maven
2 1 (1.39%) Mockito
2 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (16.67%) Finance
2 12 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 11 (15.28%) Telecoms
4 6 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.94%) Military
6 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Law
7 2 (2.78%) Agriculture
7 2 (2.78%) Local Government
8 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.39%) Electronics
8 1 (1.39%) Marketing
8 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Police
8 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Senior
2 13 (18.06%) Architect
3 12 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 11 (15.28%) Security Architect
5 7 (9.72%) Security Specialist
6 6 (8.33%) Head of Architecture
6 6 (8.33%) Head of Security
6 6 (8.33%) Information Security Specialist
6 6 (8.33%) Information Specialist
6 6 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 6 (8.33%) Senior Security Specialist
7 5 (6.94%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 5 (6.94%) Head of Strategy
7 5 (6.94%) Security Advisor
7 5 (6.94%) Senior Information Security Specialist
8 4 (5.56%) Consultant
8 4 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (5.56%) Senior Manager
9 3 (4.17%) Analyst
9 3 (4.17%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.94%) JBoss Seam
3 1 (1.39%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.39%) Bootstrap
3 1 (1.39%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.39%) JPA
3 1 (1.39%) Middleware
3 1 (1.39%) PowerMock
3 1 (1.39%) REST
3 1 (1.39%) RESTful
3 1 (1.39%) SOAP
3 1 (1.39%) Spring
3 1 (1.39%) Spring Batch
3 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.39%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (1.39%) Spring Integration
3 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (27.78%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.72%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.33%) Life Science
4 5 (6.94%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (4.17%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.39%) CESG
7 1 (1.39%) CMDB
7 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.39%) PMI
7 1 (1.39%) SCADA
7 1 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.11%) Security Architecture
2 25 (34.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (31.94%) Project Management
4 21 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
5 18 (25.00%) Information Security
5 18 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
6 17 (23.61%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 16 (22.22%) Decision-Making
8 14 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (16.67%) Agile
9 12 (16.67%) Information Assurance
10 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (15.28%) Project Planning
11 10 (13.89%) ITIL
11 10 (13.89%) PRINCE2
12 9 (12.50%) Change Management
12 9 (12.50%) Roadmaps
13 8 (11.11%) Migration
13 8 (11.11%) OWASP
14 7 (9.72%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.39%) Java
1 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (47.22%) Security Cleared
2 22 (30.56%) DV Cleared
3 16 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 11 (15.28%) Degree
5 9 (12.50%) CISM
6 8 (11.11%) PMI Certification
7 7 (9.72%) PMP
8 6 (8.33%) CISSP
9 3 (4.17%) APMP
9 3 (4.17%) CEH
9 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (4.17%) Master's Degree
9 3 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (2.78%) CCNA
10 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (2.78%) CRISC
10 2 (2.78%) ISACA
10 2 (2.78%) ISEB
11 1 (1.39%) CCNP
11 1 (1.39%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.67%) NIST
2 11 (15.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (15.28%) NCSC
3 10 (13.89%) GDPR
4 8 (11.11%) COBIT
5 5 (6.94%) PMO
6 3 (4.17%) GRC
7 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (2.78%) QA
8 1 (1.39%) JSP 440
8 1 (1.39%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Docker
1 1 (1.39%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Grafana
1 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) SAP
2 6 (8.33%) Darktrace
3 5 (6.94%) Google
4 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.78%) Databricks
5 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.39%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.39%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle
6 1 (1.39%) Snow
6 1 (1.39%) Splunk