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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 582 672
Rank change year-on-year +59 +90 +170
Contract jobs citing Risk Identification and Mitigation 9 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.011% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.013% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £404 £428 £588
25th Percentile £409 £450 £677
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% +29.63%
75th Percentile £525 £594 £722
90th Percentile £560 £883 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £725 £725
% change year-on-year -37.31% - +26.64%

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 27,135 37,295 49,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.00% 85.02% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,195 23,752 34,382
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,252 2,606 1,681
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.01 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £37.18 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.41% +6.23% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.25 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.22% +17.29% +54.76%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +78 9 £500 - 402
London +55 5 £500 +11.11% 45
UK excluding London +46 4 £455 -37.31% 394
Work from Home - 4 £409 - 223
North of England +14 3 £409 -43.59% 88
North West +11 2 £409 -18.20% 40
Yorkshire +16 1 - - 40
South East - 1 £500 - 86

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 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) Pentaho
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) CircleCI
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Billing
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Technical Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Architect
2 1 (11.11%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Smart Metering Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Project Governance
2 2 (22.22%) Project Planning
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
3 1 (11.11%) Business Case
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
3 1 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (11.11%) Emotional Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Observability
3 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle