Risk Management Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Risk Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Risk Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 52 53
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 60 87 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.56% 3.94% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 4.60% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 37 69
10th Percentile £331 £458 £262
25th Percentile £469 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% -1.04%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £638
90th Percentile £699 £669 £710
South East median daily rate £525 £545 £570
% change year-on-year -3.67% -4.39% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 5
10th Percentile £57.30 £54.22 -
25th Percentile £66.75 £56.25 £71.20
Median hourly rate £85.00 £61.50 £72.84
Median % change year-on-year +38.22% -15.57% +42.81%
75th Percentile £87.38 £67.50 £83.11
90th Percentile £87.45 £71.22 £84.61
South East median hourly rate £68.00 £61.50 £72.84
% change year-on-year +10.58% -15.57% +12.05%

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 1,532 1,891 2,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.97% 85.64% 90.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 1,056 1,659
10th Percentile £260 £300 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £686 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 79 86
10th Percentile £14.32 £18.66 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £30.21 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.46 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -58.40% +18.42% +158.48%
75th Percentile £46.70 £67.50 £66.33
90th Percentile £79.75 £86.08 £75.13
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £58.30 £52.50
% change year-on-year -61.94% +11.05% +68.54%

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

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Risk Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the Thames Valley

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Risk Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the Thames Valley

Risk Management
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 28 September 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 -3 48 £650 +20.37% 98
Buckinghamshire 0 9 £478 -14.73% 12
Oxfordshire -9 3 £675 +35.00% 10
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (10.00%) SAP CO
2 6 (10.00%) SAP FI
2 6 (10.00%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (3.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.67%) AWS
2 3 (5.00%) Azure
3 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.67%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.67%) Route 53
4 1 (1.67%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) Firewall
2 6 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (3.33%) Network Security
4 1 (1.67%) Broadband
4 1 (1.67%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) Metadata
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.67%) Big Data
2 1 (1.67%) DTS
2 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.67%) GIS
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (1.67%) DbUnit
1 1 (1.67%) Git
1 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.67%) JIRA
1 1 (1.67%) jMock
1 1 (1.67%) JUnit
1 1 (1.67%) Maven
1 1 (1.67%) Mockito
1 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (26.67%) Finance
3 9 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.00%) Legal
6 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Law
8 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Architect
2 11 (18.33%) Senior
3 9 (15.00%) Lead
4 7 (11.67%) Analyst
4 7 (11.67%) Consultant
5 6 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 6 (10.00%) SAP Architect
6 5 (8.33%) Security Consultant
6 5 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Principal Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Security Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) Information Manager
8 3 (5.00%) Information Security Specialist
8 3 (5.00%) Information Specialist
8 3 (5.00%) Knowledge Manager
8 3 (5.00%) Programme Manager
8 3 (5.00%) Security Advisor
8 3 (5.00%) Security Specialist
9 2 (3.33%) Information Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (10.00%) JBoss Seam
2 1 (1.67%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.67%) Bootstrap
2 1 (1.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.67%) JPA
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.67%) PowerMock
2 1 (1.67%) REST
2 1 (1.67%) RESTful
2 1 (1.67%) SOAP
2 1 (1.67%) Spring
2 1 (1.67%) Spring Batch
2 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.67%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (1.67%) Spring Integration
2 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (36.67%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.00%) Augmented Reality
3 5 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (5.00%) Life Science
5 3 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (5.00%) Security Posture
5 3 (5.00%) Taxonomies
6 2 (3.33%) CESG
6 2 (3.33%) CMDB
6 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.33%) Operational Technology
6 2 (3.33%) SCADA
7 1 (1.67%) Clustering
7 1 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.67%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Linux
1 6 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) VMS
2 1 (1.67%) Windows 7
2 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.00%) Decision-Making
2 18 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (28.33%) Security Architecture
4 15 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 15 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 14 (23.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (20.00%) Information Security
6 12 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (18.33%) Information Assurance
8 10 (16.67%) DevOps
8 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (15.00%) Agile
9 9 (15.00%) Project Management
10 8 (13.33%) Change Management
11 7 (11.67%) Cost Management
11 7 (11.67%) PRINCE2
11 7 (11.67%) Project Delivery
11 7 (11.67%) Resource Allocation
11 7 (11.67%) SIEM
12 6 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 5 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (3.33%) SQL
3 1 (1.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 28 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 9 (15.00%) CISSP
4 6 (10.00%) GCIA
5 5 (8.33%) CFCE
5 5 (8.33%) GCFA
5 5 (8.33%) GCIH
5 5 (8.33%) PMP
5 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.67%) Degree
6 4 (6.67%) GIAC
7 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.00%) PMI Certification
8 2 (3.33%) CISM
9 1 (1.67%) CCNA
9 1 (1.67%) CEH
9 1 (1.67%) CISA
9 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (1.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (16.67%) NIST
3 8 (13.33%) NCSC
4 6 (10.00%) GDPR
5 4 (6.67%) HIPAA
5 4 (6.67%) QA
6 3 (5.00%) RMADS
7 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (3.33%) NIST 800
7 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.67%) GRC
8 1 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Docker
1 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.67%) Postfix
1 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (1.67%) Grafana
2 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.67%) QRadar
2 1 (1.67%) RSA Archer
2 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.67%) SAP
3 6 (10.00%) Darktrace
3 6 (10.00%) Splunk
4 5 (8.33%) ArcSight
4 5 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (8.33%) LogRhythm
5 2 (3.33%) Oracle
5 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (1.67%) FireEye
6 1 (1.67%) Intel
6 1 (1.67%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.67%) Tanium
6 1 (1.67%) VMware