Risk Identification and Mitigation Contracts

Risk Identification and Mitigation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Risk Identification and Mitigation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Identification and Mitigation 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 508 578 708
Rank change year-on-year +70 +130 +142
Contract jobs citing Risk Identification and Mitigation 12 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.009% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.011% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 7
10th Percentile £405 £424 £490
25th Percentile £442 £441 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -32.14% +100.00%
75th Percentile £725 £513 £719
90th Percentile £813 £535 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £725
% change year-on-year - -31.03% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Risk Identification and Mitigation 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Risk Identification and Mitigation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Risk Identification and Mitigation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Identification and Mitigation in the UK

Risk Identification and Mitigation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Risk Identification and Mitigation.

Daily rate trend for Risk Identification and Mitigation in the UK

Risk Identification and Mitigation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Identification and Mitigation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Identification and Mitigation in the UK

Risk Identification and Mitigation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Risk Identification and Mitigation.

Hourly rate trend for Risk Identification and Mitigation in the UK

Risk Identification and Mitigation
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Identification and Mitigation within the UK 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
England +65 12 £500 +5.26% 19
London +43 8 £638 +41.67% 14
Work from Home - 7 £409 - 4
UK excluding London +66 4 £500 - 9
North of England +20 2 £409 -18.20% 3
South East - 2 £563 - 4
North West +17 1 £409 -18.20%
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3

Risk Identification and Mitigation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 3 (25.00%) IT Risk Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Risk Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Risk Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Commercial Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Compliance Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Programme Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Smart Metering Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 5 (41.67%) Project Management
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (33.33%) Budget Management
4 3 (25.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 3 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Business Case
5 2 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 2 (16.67%) Project Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CISA
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) COBIT
1 3 (25.00%) COSO
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
1 3 (25.00%) NIST
1 3 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (8.33%) GRC
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) SAP