Risk Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Risk Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 63 66 95
Rank change year-on-year +3 +29 +12
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 359 458 638
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.62% 2.98% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.40% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 317 439
10th Percentile £371 £353 £395
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £669 £725
90th Percentile £875 £810 £836
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 14
10th Percentile £41.13 £35.00 £39.57
25th Percentile - £51.25 £43.44
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +18.15%
75th Percentile £82.69 - £81.56
90th Percentile £87.05 £71.87 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £50.00 £10.63
% change year-on-year +22.99% +370.37% -67.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Risk Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Risk Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Risk Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Risk Management.

Risk Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Risk Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Risk Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Risk Management.

Risk Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Risk Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Risk Management hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Risk Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.39%) Confluence
5 2 (0.56%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.28%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (4.18%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (3.62%) Endur
2 8 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.56%) Actimize
5 2 (0.56%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.56%) OPENHousing
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.56%) Primavera
5 2 (0.56%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.28%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.28%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 1 (0.28%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 53 (14.76%) Azure
2 45 (12.53%) AWS
3 29 (8.08%) GCP
4 16 (4.46%) dbt
5 13 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (2.79%) Power Platform
7 8 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.67%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.39%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.39%) SaaS
11 4 (1.11%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.84%) Azure AKS
12 3 (0.84%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (0.56%) Apigee
13 2 (0.56%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.18%) Firewall
2 8 (2.23%) Network Security
3 4 (1.11%) LAN
3 4 (1.11%) WAN
4 3 (0.84%) 5G
4 3 (0.84%) VPN
5 2 (0.56%) BGP
5 2 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.56%) DNS
5 2 (0.56%) Internet
5 2 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.56%) S/MIME
5 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.56%) SSL
5 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) HTTP
6 1 (0.28%) OSPF
6 1 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (4.46%) Amazon Athena
2 16 (4.46%) Apache Arrow
2 16 (4.46%) Apache Iceberg
2 16 (4.46%) Dremio
3 15 (4.18%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.51%) Power BI
5 6 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.56%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.56%) DataStage
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.56%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.56%) Tableau
9 1 (0.28%) MySQL
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 29 (8.08%) JIRA
2 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.56%) Git
3 2 (0.56%) JUnit
3 2 (0.56%) Selenium
4 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.28%) GitLab
4 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.28%) MSTest
4 1 (0.28%) NUnit
4 1 (0.28%) Postman
4 1 (0.28%) Ranorex
4 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 153 (42.62%) Social Skills
2 131 (36.49%) Finance
3 61 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (15.88%) Banking
5 28 (7.80%) Public Sector
6 27 (7.52%) Front Office
7 26 (7.24%) Investment Banking
8 19 (5.29%) Legal
9 17 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.06%) Retail Banking
11 9 (2.51%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.23%) Local Government
13 7 (1.95%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.67%) Law
14 6 (1.67%) Retail
15 5 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.39%) Financial Institution
16 4 (1.11%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 52 (14.48%) Project Manager
2 39 (10.86%) Analyst
2 39 (10.86%) Developer
3 35 (9.75%) Senior
4 34 (9.47%) Architect
4 34 (9.47%) Consultant
5 22 (6.13%) IT Manager
6 21 (5.85%) Lead
7 19 (5.29%) AWS Developer
8 18 (5.01%) Programme Manager
8 18 (5.01%) Python Engineer
9 16 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.46%) AWS Software Engineer
9 16 (4.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 16 (4.46%) Python Developer
9 16 (4.46%) Software Engineer
10 14 (3.90%) Business Analyst
10 14 (3.90%) Security Consultant
11 13 (3.62%) Senior Manager
12 11 (3.06%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.01%) React
2 16 (4.46%) AngularJS
2 16 (4.46%) Node.js
2 16 (4.46%) NumPy
2 16 (4.46%) Pandas
2 16 (4.46%) SciPy
2 16 (4.46%) Vue
3 8 (2.23%) REST
4 6 (1.67%) SailPoint
4 6 (1.67%) SOAP
4 6 (1.67%) Web Services
5 4 (1.11%) Kafka
6 3 (0.84%) .NET
6 3 (0.84%) XML
7 2 (0.56%) JSON
7 2 (0.56%) Murex MxML
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.56%) RFC 2544
7 2 (0.56%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.28%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.81%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.41%) Fixed Income
3 16 (4.46%) Security Posture
4 14 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (3.34%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.34%) Derivative
5 12 (3.34%) Equities
6 11 (3.06%) Market Risk
7 9 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.51%) Life Science
7 9 (2.51%) Operational Technology
8 8 (2.23%) Credit Risk
8 8 (2.23%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.95%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.67%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.67%) PMI
11 5 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.39%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.62%) Windows
2 7 (1.95%) Linux
3 6 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.84%) Unix
5 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (27.30%) Agile
2 90 (25.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 87 (24.23%) Project Management
4 86 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (15.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 48 (13.37%) Cybersecurity
7 41 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (11.42%) Information Security
8 37 (10.31%) Decision-Making
9 35 (9.75%) Project Delivery
10 33 (9.19%) Change Management
11 28 (7.80%) Computer Science
11 28 (7.80%) Roadmaps
12 26 (7.24%) Scrum
13 25 (6.96%) Analytics
13 25 (6.96%) Migration
14 24 (6.69%) Collaborative Culture
14 24 (6.69%) Regulatory Compliance
14 24 (6.69%) Risk Assessment
15 23 (6.41%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 44 (12.26%) Python
2 33 (9.19%) SQL
3 30 (8.36%) JavaScript
4 26 (7.24%) TypeScript
5 23 (6.41%) Java
6 11 (3.06%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.23%) C#
8 5 (1.39%) C++
9 3 (0.84%) Jython
10 2 (0.56%) Bash
10 2 (0.56%) PHP
10 2 (0.56%) VB
11 1 (0.28%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.28%) CLIST
11 1 (0.28%) JCL
11 1 (0.28%) R
11 1 (0.28%) REXX
11 1 (0.28%) Ruby
11 1 (0.28%) Smalltalk
11 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (14.76%) Degree
2 32 (8.91%) Security Cleared
3 27 (7.52%) SC Cleared
4 26 (7.24%) PMI Certification
5 25 (6.96%) PMP
6 23 (6.41%) CISSP
7 16 (4.46%) CISM
7 16 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (4.18%) Master's Degree
9 14 (3.90%) CISA
10 7 (1.95%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.67%) CRISC
11 6 (1.67%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.39%) CEH
12 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 3 (0.84%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.08%) NIST
2 24 (6.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (6.13%) GDPR
4 20 (5.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (5.29%) GRC
6 18 (5.01%) QA
7 12 (3.34%) PMO
8 11 (3.06%) COBIT
9 10 (2.79%) HIPAA
10 9 (2.51%) Data Quality
10 9 (2.51%) PCI DSS
11 7 (1.95%) MiFID
12 5 (1.39%) COSO
12 5 (1.39%) ITGC
13 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (1.11%) NCSC
13 4 (1.11%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.84%) Basel II
14 3 (0.84%) EMIR
14 3 (0.84%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.56%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.84%) Amdocs OSS
2 3 (0.84%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.56%) Terraform
4 1 (0.28%) CASB
4 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.28%) Nessus
4 1 (0.28%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 39 (10.86%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.57%) SAP
3 19 (5.29%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.46%) Oracle
5 6 (1.67%) Cisco
5 6 (1.67%) Google
5 6 (1.67%) OpenLink
6 5 (1.39%) Qualys
6 5 (1.39%) Sybase
7 4 (1.11%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.11%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.11%) Databricks
7 4 (1.11%) HP
7 4 (1.11%) Planview
8 3 (0.84%) Ciena
8 3 (0.84%) Ericsson
8 3 (0.84%) ForgeRock
8 3 (0.84%) NEC
8 3 (0.84%) Nokia
8 3 (0.84%) Okta