Risk Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Risk Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Risk Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Risk Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 57 55
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 50 55 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.71% 2.83% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 3.37% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 42 61
10th Percentile £379 £401 £278
25th Percentile £469 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +5.97%
75th Percentile £651 £588 £613
90th Percentile £788 £683 £738
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +8.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,189 1,632 2,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.34% 83.95% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 783 1,084 1,439
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £378 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 114 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £24.61 £40.38 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £58.00 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Risk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Risk Management in the West Midlands

Risk Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Risk Management in the West Midlands

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the West Midlands

Risk Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Risk Management in the West Midlands

Risk Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham +6 20 £569 +19.74% 38
Warwickshire -3 12 £500 -13.04% 15
Coventry +15 7 - - 4
Shropshire - 5 £425 -
Solihull - 4 £500 - 3
Staffordshire +2 1 £41 - 29
Risk Management
England

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.00%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (2.00%) SAP HCM
3 1 (2.00%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.00%) AWS
1 8 (16.00%) Azure
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (6.00%) AWS KMS
3 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.00%) Route 53
4 2 (4.00%) OCI
5 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (2.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.00%) DynamoDB
1 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.00%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (10.00%) JUnit
1 5 (10.00%) Maven
1 5 (10.00%) Mockito
2 4 (8.00%) JIRA
3 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (6.00%) DbUnit
3 3 (6.00%) Git
3 3 (6.00%) jMock
3 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.00%) Ant
5 1 (2.00%) Gradle
5 1 (2.00%) JBehave
5 1 (2.00%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.00%) Selenium
5 1 (2.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (38.00%) Finance
2 18 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Legal
4 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Law
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.00%) Billing
7 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.00%) Games
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) International Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Senior
2 8 (16.00%) Analyst
3 6 (12.00%) Lead
4 5 (10.00%) Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Security Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Risk Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Service Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (6.00%) IT Manager
6 3 (6.00%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Security Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Security Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Senior PMO
7 2 (4.00%) Senior PMO Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Service Continuity Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) SOAP
1 5 (10.00%) Spring
1 5 (10.00%) Web Services
2 4 (8.00%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (8.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (8.00%) JPA
2 4 (8.00%) REST
2 4 (8.00%) RESTful
2 4 (8.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (8.00%) Spring Cloud
3 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.00%) Bootstrap
3 3 (6.00%) PowerMock
3 3 (6.00%) Spring Batch
3 3 (6.00%) Spring Integration
4 1 (2.00%) J2EE
4 1 (2.00%) LDAP
4 1 (2.00%) OAuth
4 1 (2.00%) SAML
4 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Replication
3 2 (4.00%) SCADA
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.00%) Unix
2 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) Agile
2 20 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (26.00%) Project Management
4 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (14.00%) Change Management
7 7 (14.00%) Decision-Making
7 7 (14.00%) ITIL
7 7 (14.00%) SIEM
7 7 (14.00%) TDD
8 6 (12.00%) DevOps
8 6 (12.00%) Project Delivery
8 6 (12.00%) Resource Management
8 6 (12.00%) Roadmaps
9 5 (10.00%) Identity Management
9 5 (10.00%) Scrum
9 5 (10.00%) Validation
9 5 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
10 4 (8.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) Java
1 6 (12.00%) SQL
2 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.00%) Python
2 1 (2.00%) Scala
2 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) CISSP
2 6 (12.00%) Degree
2 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) CISM
3 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.00%) CISA
5 3 (6.00%) SANS
6 2 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (4.00%) CCSP
6 2 (4.00%) CEH
6 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.00%) GIAC
6 2 (4.00%) ISACA
6 2 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (10.00%) NIST
2 4 (8.00%) GDPR
2 4 (8.00%) PMO
3 2 (4.00%) GRC
3 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (4.00%) QA
4 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.00%) ISO 31000
4 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.00%) NCSC
4 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
1 4 (8.00%) Postfix
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Grafana
1 4 (8.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.00%) CASB
2 2 (4.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.00%) Ansible
3 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Oracle
2 5 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.00%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (6.00%) Remedy
3 3 (6.00%) SAP
3 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.00%) BMC
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.00%) Tenable
4 2 (4.00%) TOWER Software
5 1 (2.00%) Ariba
5 1 (2.00%) Civica
5 1 (2.00%) Cognizant
5 1 (2.00%) Micro Focus
5 1 (2.00%) Planview
5 1 (2.00%) Qualys
5 1 (2.00%) Sybase