Risk Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Risk Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Risk Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Risk Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 64 97
Rank change year-on-year +8 +33 +25
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 626 813 809
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.07% 3.46% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 3.86% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 451 574
10th Percentile £325 £280 £325
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £825 £775 £684
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 159 26
10th Percentile £12.25 - £20.64
25th Percentile £28.98 - £31.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £9.80 £38.77
Median % change year-on-year +435.71% -74.72% +2.55%
75th Percentile £61.25 £10.63 £64.94
90th Percentile £80.34 £77.95 £75.06
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £10.63 £29.45
% change year-on-year +370.37% -63.90% -22.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Risk Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,192 21,035 27,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.42% 89.50% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,233 14,534 19,060
10th Percentile £250 £256 £237
25th Percentile £379 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,280 1,365
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.43 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.55
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Risk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in the UK excluding London

Risk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Risk Management in the UK excluding London

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK excluding London

Risk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Management in the UK excluding London

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK excluding London

Risk Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
North of England +18 184 £559 +11.75% 134
South East -6 139 £525 -4.55% 130
North West +27 113 £669 +33.80% 77
South West -18 109 £500 -27.27% 73
Scotland +20 76 £450 -15.85% 49
Yorkshire -2 65 £488 -2.50% 37
Midlands -2 64 £525 +5.00% 95
West Midlands -2 54 £525 - 52
East of England +3 28 £300 -45.45% 58
Wales +34 15 £600 +17.07% 23
Northern Ireland +18 14 £435 -24.87% 8
East Midlands +13 10 £598 +49.38% 43
North East +19 8 £590 +31.11% 21
Isle of Man - 2 - - 3
Risk Management
UK

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (3.35%) SharePoint
2 20 (3.19%) Confluence
3 19 (3.04%) SAS
4 5 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.48%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.48%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.16%) Moodle
7 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 32 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (2.24%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.60%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 6 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.80%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.48%) Primavera
3 3 (0.48%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.48%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.16%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 32 (5.11%) Azure
2 16 (2.56%) AWS
3 12 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (1.60%) SaaS
5 9 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (1.12%) Power Platform
7 5 (0.80%) Apigee
7 5 (0.80%) GCP
7 5 (0.80%) Kong
7 5 (0.80%) PaaS
8 4 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.64%) IaaS
8 4 (0.64%) WhatsApp
9 3 (0.48%) CloudBees
9 3 (0.48%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (0.48%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.32%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.32%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.32%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 64 (10.22%) Firewall
2 47 (7.51%) VPN
3 32 (5.11%) Network Security
4 12 (1.92%) Structured Cabling
5 11 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (1.44%) DWDM
7 8 (1.28%) Wireless
8 5 (0.80%) Intranet
8 5 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.80%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.64%) DNS
9 4 (0.64%) Wideband
10 3 (0.48%) PPP
11 2 (0.32%) CTI
11 2 (0.32%) LAN
11 2 (0.32%) WAN
12 1 (0.16%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.16%) Ethernet
12 1 (0.16%) Internet
12 1 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.28%) MongoDB
2 6 (0.96%) Power BI
3 5 (0.80%) OLAP
3 5 (0.80%) OLTP
3 5 (0.80%) Oracle OLAP
4 4 (0.64%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.48%) ClickHouse
5 3 (0.48%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.48%) Metadata
6 2 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.32%) Big Data
6 2 (0.32%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.32%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.16%) IDMS
7 1 (0.16%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (4.95%) JIRA
2 8 (1.28%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.16%) GitLab
4 1 (0.16%) MLflow
General
1 177 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 108 (17.25%) Finance
3 96 (15.34%) Public Sector
4 51 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (7.19%) Legal
6 37 (5.91%) Organisational Skills
7 31 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (3.99%) Marketing
8 25 (3.99%) Telecoms
9 24 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (3.51%) Banking
11 14 (2.24%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.92%) Military
14 11 (1.76%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.76%) Local Government
14 11 (1.76%) Mandarin Language
15 10 (1.60%) Electronics
16 9 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 113 (18.05%) Project Manager
2 94 (15.02%) Architect
3 92 (14.70%) Lead
4 70 (11.18%) Analyst
5 55 (8.79%) Senior
6 40 (6.39%) Technical Architect
7 39 (6.23%) Consultant
8 32 (5.11%) Lead Architect
9 31 (4.95%) Technical Leader
10 28 (4.47%) Security Architect
10 28 (4.47%) Senior Manager
11 24 (3.83%) Security Consultant
12 22 (3.51%) Security Manager
13 18 (2.88%) Programmer
13 18 (2.88%) Systems Programmer
13 18 (2.88%) z/OS Systems Programmer
14 17 (2.72%) IT Manager
14 17 (2.72%) Risk Manager
15 15 (2.40%) Risk Officer
16 14 (2.24%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (6.39%) Node.js
2 31 (4.95%) ISPF
3 9 (1.44%) Kafka
4 6 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (0.96%) SOAP
5 5 (0.80%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (0.80%) J2EE
5 5 (0.80%) Web Services
6 4 (0.64%) Apache Camel
6 4 (0.64%) HTML
6 4 (0.64%) LDAP
6 4 (0.64%) Spring
6 4 (0.64%) Spring Boot
6 4 (0.64%) Spring Integration
7 3 (0.48%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.48%) Apache Beam
7 3 (0.48%) CSS
7 3 (0.48%) Keycloak
7 3 (0.48%) Middleware
7 3 (0.48%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.22%) Management Information System
2 33 (5.27%) Security Posture
3 31 (4.95%) Mainframe
4 30 (4.79%) Public Cloud
5 18 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
6 17 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.92%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.92%) NHS
7 12 (1.92%) Operational Technology
8 11 (1.76%) LPAR
9 9 (1.44%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.44%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.28%) PMI
11 7 (1.12%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
12 6 (0.96%) Freedom of Information
13 5 (0.80%) CMDB
13 5 (0.80%) DataPower
14 4 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 59 (9.42%) Windows
2 43 (6.87%) Android
2 43 (6.87%) Apple iOS
2 43 (6.87%) Windows Server
3 31 (4.95%) zOS
4 20 (3.19%) Linux
5 11 (1.76%) Unix
6 10 (1.60%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (24.76%) Project Management
2 144 (23.00%) Cybersecurity
3 138 (22.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 106 (16.93%) Agile
5 77 (12.30%) Information Security
6 72 (11.50%) Project Delivery
7 71 (11.34%) Change Management
7 71 (11.34%) Roadmaps
8 70 (11.18%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (10.86%) Security Architecture
10 63 (10.06%) DevOps
11 61 (9.74%) PRINCE2
12 58 (9.27%) Project Planning
13 57 (9.11%) Threat Intelligence
14 56 (8.95%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 54 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 50 (7.99%) Decision-Making
17 45 (7.19%) Design Patterns
18 44 (7.03%) CI/CD
19 43 (6.87%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (4.95%) JCL
2 29 (4.63%) REXX
3 16 (2.56%) Assembly Language
4 12 (1.92%) Python
5 10 (1.60%) CLIST
6 8 (1.28%) Java
7 7 (1.12%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.12%) SQL
8 4 (0.64%) C++
9 3 (0.48%) C
9 3 (0.48%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.48%) Embedded C++
9 3 (0.48%) Go
9 3 (0.48%) Groovy
9 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.48%) Ruby
9 3 (0.48%) Scala
10 1 (0.16%) ABAP
10 1 (0.16%) C#
Qualifications
1 180 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 124 (19.81%) SC Cleared
3 82 (13.10%) Degree
4 52 (8.31%) DV Cleared
5 42 (6.71%) CISSP
6 34 (5.43%) CISM
7 29 (4.63%) PMI Certification
8 24 (3.83%) PMP
9 19 (3.04%) CISA
10 17 (2.72%) Master's Degree
11 16 (2.56%) CRISC
12 12 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 10 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (1.12%) ISACA
15 7 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 6 (0.96%) CISMP
16 6 (0.96%) HNC
16 6 (0.96%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (11.18%) NIST
2 65 (10.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (8.47%) PMO
4 36 (5.75%) QA
5 30 (4.79%) GDPR
6 22 (3.51%) COBIT
7 20 (3.19%) PCI DSS
8 16 (2.56%) GRC
9 14 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (1.92%) HIPAA
11 11 (1.76%) Data Quality
12 10 (1.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.96%) ISO 31000
15 5 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
16 4 (0.64%) NCSC
16 4 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.48%) IASME
17 3 (0.48%) JSP 440
17 3 (0.48%) RMADS
System Software
1 31 (4.95%) Time Sharing Option
2 15 (2.40%) ACF2
2 15 (2.40%) RACF
3 11 (1.76%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 11 (1.76%) Microcode
4 4 (0.64%) Docker
5 3 (0.48%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (3.19%) OMEGAMON
2 9 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.80%) Terraform
4 3 (0.48%) Ansible
4 3 (0.48%) Grafana
4 3 (0.48%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (0.32%) CEMLI
5 2 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.16%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.16%) Nagios
6 1 (0.16%) OpenView
Vendors
1 45 (7.19%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.75%) IBM
3 26 (4.15%) SAP
4 20 (3.19%) Splunk
5 19 (3.04%) Broadcom
6 12 (1.92%) Oracle
7 11 (1.76%) Adobe
8 7 (1.12%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.12%) BT
9 6 (0.96%) Apple
9 6 (0.96%) Google
9 6 (0.96%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.80%) TSYS
11 4 (0.64%) Cisco
12 3 (0.48%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.48%) BMC
12 3 (0.48%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.48%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.48%) Sparx
12 3 (0.48%) Xilinx