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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 54 63
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +3
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Risk Management 66 55 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.85% 2.89% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 3.53% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 49
10th Percentile £350 £344 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £591 £688
90th Percentile £650 £626 £750
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £29.38
90th Percentile - - £30.00
England median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.30% -4.17% +50.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,512 1,557 1,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.27% 81.69% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 1,047 1,247
10th Percentile £235 £263 £263
25th Percentile £385 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £584 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £730 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 58 41
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.13 £14.36
25th Percentile £14.47 £14.78 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.34 £21.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.91% -19.44% +54.29%
75th Percentile £35.14 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.38 £43.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £40.85
% change year-on-year -40.82% +4.05% +51.39%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Risk Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Risk Management

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 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in the West Midlands

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Risk Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Risk Management

Risk Management
DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warwickshire +5 23 £488 -2.50% 9
Birmingham -12 18 £525 +10.53% 31
Coventry -2 9 £475 -23.08% 5
Solihull - 7 £500 -
Shropshire - 5 £425 - 4
Worcestershire -2 2 £700 +40.00% 4
Staffordshire - 2 £271 - 32
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 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.52%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.52%) CA PPM
2 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.52%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.52%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (1.52%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.12%) AWS
2 6 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (7.58%) Amazon S3
3 5 (7.58%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (6.06%) Azure
5 3 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.55%) AWS KMS
5 3 (4.55%) Route 53
6 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.52%) GCP
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.52%) OCI
7 1 (1.52%) SaaS
7 1 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.52%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (3.03%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) Power BI
2 5 (7.58%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (1.52%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.58%) Git
2 5 (7.58%) JUnit
2 5 (7.58%) Maven
2 5 (7.58%) Mockito
2 5 (7.58%) SonarQube
3 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (4.55%) DbUnit
3 3 (4.55%) JIRA
3 3 (4.55%) jMock
4 1 (1.52%) CANoe
4 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.52%) JBehave
4 1 (1.52%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.52%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.52%) Selenium
4 1 (1.52%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.52%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 21 (31.82%) Finance
3 16 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.15%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.58%) Legal
6 4 (6.06%) Law
6 4 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Banking
7 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.03%) Billing
8 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Electronics
9 1 (1.52%) Games
9 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Local Government
9 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 10 (15.15%) Senior
3 9 (13.64%) Analyst
4 6 (9.09%) Lead
5 5 (7.58%) Architect
5 5 (7.58%) Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Manager
5 5 (7.58%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.58%) PMO Analyst
5 5 (7.58%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (6.06%) IT Manager
6 4 (6.06%) IT Project Manager
6 4 (6.06%) Test Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Test Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Risk Manager
7 3 (4.55%) SAP Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 3 (4.55%) Senior PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.09%) SOAP
2 5 (7.58%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (7.58%) AngularJS
2 5 (7.58%) Bootstrap
2 5 (7.58%) JPA
2 5 (7.58%) REST
2 5 (7.58%) Spring
2 5 (7.58%) Spring Boot
2 5 (7.58%) Spring Cloud
3 4 (6.06%) Web Services
4 3 (4.55%) Hibernate
4 3 (4.55%) PowerMock
4 3 (4.55%) RESTful
4 3 (4.55%) RFC 2544
4 3 (4.55%) Spring Batch
4 3 (4.55%) Spring Integration
5 1 (1.52%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 4 (6.06%) SCADA
3 3 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.55%) Driving Licence
3 3 (4.55%) Replication
4 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.52%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.52%) NHS
5 1 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Linux
1 3 (4.55%) Windows
2 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (42.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 24 (36.36%) Agile
3 17 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (24.24%) Project Management
5 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (18.18%) Change Management
6 12 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (15.15%) Migration
9 9 (13.64%) Decision-Making
9 9 (13.64%) Resource Management
10 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (10.61%) DevOps
10 7 (10.61%) Project Delivery
10 7 (10.61%) Resource Allocation
10 7 (10.61%) Waterfall
11 6 (9.09%) ITIL
11 6 (9.09%) Process Improvement
11 6 (9.09%) Scrum
11 6 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.09%) Java
2 4 (6.06%) SQL
3 1 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.52%) MATLAB
3 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.64%) Degree
4 3 (4.55%) CISA
4 3 (4.55%) CISM
4 3 (4.55%) CISSP
5 2 (3.03%) GIAC
5 2 (3.03%) ISACA
5 2 (3.03%) PMP
5 2 (3.03%) SANS
6 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.52%) CBAP
6 1 (1.52%) CEH
6 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.52%) NVQ Level 3
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) PMO
2 6 (9.09%) QA
3 5 (7.58%) NIST
4 4 (6.06%) GDPR
5 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
6 2 (3.03%) GRC
7 1 (1.52%) COBIT
7 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.52%) ISO 26262
7 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (1.52%) NCSC
7 1 (1.52%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.58%) Docker
3 3 (4.55%) Postfix
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Grafana
1 5 (7.58%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.03%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.52%) Ansible
3 1 (1.52%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 5 (7.58%) Cisco
2 4 (6.06%) Atlassian
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) SAP
3 3 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (4.55%) Oracle
4 2 (3.03%) Tenable
5 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.52%) Civica
5 1 (1.52%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.52%) Cognos
5 1 (1.52%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.52%) Planview
5 1 (1.52%) Remedy
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow