Risk Management Contracts

Risk Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 67 96
Rank change year-on-year +2 +29 +23
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,326 1,901 2,395
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.08% 3.27% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.64% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,092 1,645
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £489 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £660
90th Percentile £825 £874 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 233 54
10th Percentile £12.25 - £24.33
25th Percentile £30.96 £9.80 £25.68
Median hourly rate £50.00 £10.63 £29.45
Median % change year-on-year +370.37% -63.90% -22.09%
75th Percentile £60.94 £12.02 £57.22
90th Percentile £81.71 £69.71 £66.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £9.80 £38.77
% change year-on-year +435.71% -74.72% +2.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Risk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Risk Management over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Risk Management in the UK

Risk Management
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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
England -2 1,129 £550 -8.33% 1,002
UK excluding London +10 632 £525 -4.55% 550
London +5 584 £600 -7.69% 486
Work from Home +25 451 £550 -8.33% 417
North of England +16 185 £550 +10.00% 133
South East -7 140 £525 -4.55% 123
North West +28 114 £669 +33.80% 77
South West -20 110 £500 -27.27% 74
Scotland +20 79 £450 -15.85% 52
Yorkshire -1 65 £488 -2.50% 35
Midlands -5 64 £525 +5.00% 91
West Midlands -7 54 £525 - 52
East of England +3 28 £300 -45.45% 58
Wales +33 15 £600 +17.07% 23
Northern Ireland +17 14 £435 -24.87% 8
East Midlands +11 10 £598 +49.38% 39
North East +21 8 £590 +31.11% 22
Isle of Man - 2 - - 3

Risk Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 38 (2.87%) Confluence
1 38 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.96%) SAS
3 16 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.23%) Apache
6 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.23%) nginx
7 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.075%) CMS
8 1 (0.075%) IIS
8 1 (0.075%) Mendix
8 1 (0.075%) Moodle
Applications
1 73 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (3.32%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.75%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.90%) ION MarketView
3 10 (0.75%) Aligne
4 7 (0.53%) Endur
5 6 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 5 (0.38%) Primavera
6 5 (0.38%) Shopify
6 5 (0.38%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.30%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.23%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.23%) Orchestrade
9 2 (0.15%) Bloomberg AIM
9 2 (0.15%) Loan IQ
9 2 (0.15%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.15%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 101 (7.62%) Azure
2 40 (3.02%) AWS
3 32 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (2.26%) SaaS
6 21 (1.58%) Power Platform
7 16 (1.21%) IaaS
8 13 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (0.90%) PaaS
10 11 (0.83%) GCP
11 10 (0.75%) Entra ID
12 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (0.60%) WhatsApp
14 6 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (0.45%) Kong
15 5 (0.38%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (0.38%) Apigee
15 5 (0.38%) Serverless
15 5 (0.38%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 86 (6.49%) Firewall
2 55 (4.15%) Network Security
3 54 (4.07%) VPN
4 23 (1.73%) Structured Cabling
5 18 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (1.06%) FIX Connectivity
7 12 (0.90%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.83%) DNS
9 9 (0.68%) DWDM
9 9 (0.68%) Intranet
10 8 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (0.60%) Wireless
11 7 (0.53%) SAN
12 5 (0.38%) PPP
13 4 (0.30%) DHCP
13 4 (0.30%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.30%) LAN
13 4 (0.30%) VLAN
13 4 (0.30%) Wideband
14 3 (0.23%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (1.73%) SQL Server
2 18 (1.36%) Power BI
2 18 (1.36%) Relational Database
3 11 (0.83%) Metadata
3 11 (0.83%) MongoDB
4 8 (0.60%) KDB
5 6 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.45%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.38%) Data Mart
6 5 (0.38%) MySQL
6 5 (0.38%) OLAP
6 5 (0.38%) OLTP
6 5 (0.38%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (0.30%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.23%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (5.66%) JIRA
2 13 (0.98%) TeamCity
3 12 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (0.45%) Git
6 5 (0.38%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.38%) NeoLoad
7 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.30%) Sourcetree
8 3 (0.23%) GitLab
8 3 (0.23%) Maven
9 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Team System
10 1 (0.075%) Ant
10 1 (0.075%) Babel
10 1 (0.075%) MLflow
10 1 (0.075%) Selenium
10 1 (0.075%) VisualWorks
10 1 (0.075%) webpack
General
1 406 (30.62%) Finance
2 400 (30.17%) Social Skills
3 179 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 110 (8.30%) Banking
6 79 (5.96%) Legal
7 66 (4.98%) Front Office
8 56 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
9 53 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
10 44 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
10 44 (3.32%) Marketing
11 38 (2.87%) Telecoms
12 30 (2.26%) Investment Banking
13 26 (1.96%) Retail
14 25 (1.89%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.73%) Financial Institution
16 22 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 21 (1.58%) Local Government
18 15 (1.13%) Electronics
18 15 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 227 (17.12%) Project Manager
2 202 (15.23%) Analyst
3 151 (11.39%) Architect
4 138 (10.41%) Lead
5 115 (8.67%) Senior
6 93 (7.01%) Consultant
7 62 (4.68%) Security Architect
8 61 (4.60%) Business Analyst
9 53 (4.00%) Developer
9 53 (4.00%) Senior Manager
10 42 (3.17%) Technical Architect
11 38 (2.87%) Security Consultant
12 36 (2.71%) Lead Architect
13 35 (2.64%) Security Manager
14 34 (2.56%) IT Manager
14 34 (2.56%) Risk Analyst
15 33 (2.49%) Technical Leader
16 32 (2.41%) Security Analyst
17 31 (2.34%) Programme Manager
18 29 (2.19%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.47%) Node.js
2 36 (2.71%) ISPF
3 18 (1.36%) XML
4 16 (1.21%) FIX Protocol
5 13 (0.98%) Kafka
5 13 (0.98%) SAML
6 12 (0.90%) .NET
6 12 (0.90%) OAuth
7 11 (0.83%) CSS
7 11 (0.83%) HTML
7 11 (0.83%) OpenID
8 10 (0.75%) Middleware
8 10 (0.75%) SailPoint
8 10 (0.75%) Web Services
9 8 (0.60%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.60%) J2EE
9 8 (0.60%) LDAP
9 8 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (0.60%) Spring
10 6 (0.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 143 (10.78%) Management Information System
2 42 (3.17%) Derivative
2 42 (3.17%) Public Cloud
3 40 (3.02%) Security Posture
4 39 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
4 39 (2.94%) Mainframe
5 33 (2.49%) Product Ownership
6 24 (1.81%) Data Centre
6 24 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 22 (1.66%) Fixed Income
8 19 (1.43%) Market Risk
9 18 (1.36%) Operational Technology
10 17 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.28%) NHS
11 15 (1.13%) Credit Risk
11 15 (1.13%) Freedom of Information
11 15 (1.13%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (0.98%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 114 (8.60%) Windows
2 51 (3.85%) Linux
3 46 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 44 (3.32%) Android
4 44 (3.32%) Apple iOS
5 38 (2.87%) Unix
5 38 (2.87%) zOS
6 10 (0.75%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.075%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (26.47%) Project Management
2 271 (20.44%) Agile
3 253 (19.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 250 (18.85%) Cybersecurity
5 201 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
6 167 (12.59%) Information Security
7 159 (11.99%) Project Delivery
8 136 (10.26%) Change Management
9 126 (9.50%) PRINCE2
10 114 (8.60%) Roadmaps
11 112 (8.45%) Decision-Making
11 112 (8.45%) DevOps
12 107 (8.07%) Security Architecture
13 104 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 88 (6.64%) Project Planning
15 76 (5.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 74 (5.58%) ITIL
16 74 (5.58%) Threat Intelligence
17 69 (5.20%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
17 69 (5.20%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (6.79%) SQL
2 84 (6.33%) Python
3 38 (2.87%) PowerShell
4 37 (2.79%) Java
5 36 (2.71%) JCL
6 33 (2.49%) REXX
7 24 (1.81%) C#
8 20 (1.51%) Assembly Language
9 18 (1.36%) JavaScript
10 15 (1.13%) C++
11 14 (1.06%) CLIST
12 6 (0.45%) Scala
13 5 (0.38%) C
14 4 (0.30%) ABAP
14 4 (0.30%) VBA
15 3 (0.23%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.23%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.23%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.23%) Perl
15 3 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 238 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 200 (15.08%) Degree
3 168 (12.67%) SC Cleared
4 108 (8.14%) CISSP
5 81 (6.11%) CISM
6 66 (4.98%) DV Cleared
7 61 (4.60%) PMI Certification
7 61 (4.60%) PMP
8 47 (3.54%) CISA
9 42 (3.17%) CRISC
10 37 (2.79%) Master's Degree
11 34 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 15 (1.13%) SANS
15 14 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 13 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 8 (0.60%) APMP
17 8 (0.60%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (9.88%) NIST
2 128 (9.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 99 (7.47%) PMO
4 85 (6.41%) QA
5 56 (4.22%) GRC
6 52 (3.92%) GDPR
7 34 (2.56%) PCI DSS
8 31 (2.34%) COBIT
9 30 (2.26%) Data Quality
10 23 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (1.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 16 (1.21%) HIPAA
11 16 (1.21%) NCSC
12 15 (1.13%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 12 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.90%) SLA
15 11 (0.83%) ISO 31000
16 9 (0.68%) EMIR
17 8 (0.60%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 36 (2.71%) Time Sharing Option
2 15 (1.13%) ACF2
2 15 (1.13%) RACF
3 13 (0.98%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.83%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 11 (0.83%) Microcode
5 8 (0.60%) Docker
6 3 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.075%) Firmware
7 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.075%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.075%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (1.81%) OMEGAMON
2 12 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (0.83%) Grafana
4 10 (0.75%) Terraform
5 8 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
6 6 (0.45%) Ansible
7 4 (0.30%) PingFederate
7 4 (0.30%) SCCM
8 3 (0.23%) Nagios
8 3 (0.23%) OpenView
8 3 (0.23%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 2 (0.15%) CEMLI
9 2 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.15%) Nessus
9 2 (0.15%) Nexpose
10 1 (0.075%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.075%) CASB
10 1 (0.075%) Consul
10 1 (0.075%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 130 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.90%) SAP
3 55 (4.15%) Oracle
4 53 (4.00%) IBM
5 29 (2.19%) Splunk
6 25 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.58%) ION Trading
8 19 (1.43%) Bloomberg
8 19 (1.43%) Broadcom
9 18 (1.36%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.21%) Adobe
10 16 (1.21%) Google
10 16 (1.21%) Tradeweb
11 15 (1.13%) MarketAxess
12 12 (0.90%) Murex
13 11 (0.83%) Cisco
14 10 (0.75%) CA
14 10 (0.75%) Qualys
15 8 (0.60%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.60%) Dynatrace