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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 73 96
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +29
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,347 1,907 2,389
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.09% 3.20% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 3.55% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 1,105 1,635
10th Percentile £355 £402 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +2.56%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £675
90th Percentile £825 £870 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +15.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 230 57
10th Percentile £12.25 - £23.20
25th Percentile £30.96 £9.80 £25.68
Median hourly rate £50.00 £10.63 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +370.37% -67.19% -5.40%
75th Percentile £60.94 £12.02 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.71 £70.13 £66.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £9.80 £47.03
% change year-on-year +435.71% -79.16% +44.71%

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 37,597 53,655 80,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,227 37,238 56,437
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
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% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,746 1,926
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.98 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.34 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.72% +80.00% -8.00%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -1 1,161 £550 -8.33% 937
UK excluding London +11 642 £525 -4.55% 490
London +6 600 £600 -7.69% 485
Work from Home +29 458 £550 -8.33% 401
North of England +23 191 £548 +9.50% 111
South East -9 137 £525 -4.55% 127
North West +28 120 £666 +33.20% 73
South West -15 111 £520 -20.00% 67
Scotland +19 76 £450 -12.20% 46
Midlands +14 72 £525 - 73
Yorkshire +1 65 £488 -2.50% 24
West Midlands +5 57 £515 -6.36% 46
East of England +7 29 £388 -22.50% 47
Wales +30 14 £600 +41.18% 18
Northern Ireland +20 14 £435 -24.87% 9
East Midlands +14 14 £555 +38.75% 26
North East +26 8 £590 +31.11% 14
Isle of Man - 2 - - 1

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 37 (2.75%) Confluence
1 37 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.78%) SAS
3 17 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.22%) Apache
6 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.22%) nginx
7 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.074%) CMS
8 1 (0.074%) IIS
8 1 (0.074%) Mendix
8 1 (0.074%) Moodle
Applications
1 72 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (3.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (3.19%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.74%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.74%) Aligne
2 10 (0.74%) ION MarketView
2 10 (0.74%) Primavera
3 6 (0.45%) Endur
3 6 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 5 (0.37%) Shopify
4 5 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.30%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.30%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.22%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.15%) Bloomberg AIM
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 107 (7.94%) Azure
2 46 (3.41%) AWS
3 34 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (2.30%) SaaS
5 29 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (1.56%) Power Platform
7 16 (1.19%) IaaS
8 13 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (0.89%) GCP
9 12 (0.89%) PaaS
10 11 (0.82%) Entra ID
11 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (0.59%) WhatsApp
13 7 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (0.45%) GitHub
14 6 (0.45%) Kong
15 5 (0.37%) Amazon S3
15 5 (0.37%) Apigee
15 5 (0.37%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 90 (6.68%) Firewall
2 57 (4.23%) VPN
3 56 (4.16%) Network Security
4 23 (1.71%) Structured Cabling
5 18 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (1.04%) FIX Connectivity
7 12 (0.89%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.82%) DNS
8 11 (0.82%) PPP
9 10 (0.74%) SAN
10 9 (0.67%) DWDM
10 9 (0.67%) Intranet
11 8 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
11 8 (0.59%) Wireless
12 4 (0.30%) DHCP
12 4 (0.30%) DMZ
12 4 (0.30%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.30%) LAN
12 4 (0.30%) VLAN
12 4 (0.30%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (1.63%) SQL Server
2 19 (1.41%) Relational Database
3 18 (1.34%) Power BI
4 11 (0.82%) Metadata
4 11 (0.82%) MongoDB
5 7 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.52%) KDB
6 6 (0.45%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.37%) Data Mart
7 5 (0.37%) MySQL
7 5 (0.37%) OLAP
7 5 (0.37%) OLTP
7 5 (0.37%) Oracle OLAP
8 4 (0.30%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.30%) Tableau
9 3 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.22%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 76 (5.64%) JIRA
2 13 (0.97%) TeamCity
3 12 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (0.45%) Git
6 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.30%) LoadRunner
6 4 (0.30%) NeoLoad
6 4 (0.30%) Sourcetree
7 3 (0.22%) GitLab
7 3 (0.22%) Maven
8 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.074%) Ant
9 1 (0.074%) Babel
9 1 (0.074%) MLflow
9 1 (0.074%) Selenium
9 1 (0.074%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.074%) VisualWorks
9 1 (0.074%) webpack
General
1 410 (30.44%) Finance
2 399 (29.62%) Social Skills
3 182 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 106 (7.87%) Banking
6 75 (5.57%) Legal
7 69 (5.12%) Front Office
8 55 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
9 51 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
10 46 (3.41%) Marketing
11 41 (3.04%) Telecoms
12 35 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (2.15%) Investment Banking
14 27 (2.00%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.86%) Retail
16 23 (1.71%) Financial Institution
17 22 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 21 (1.56%) Local Government
19 18 (1.34%) Electronics
20 12 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 225 (16.70%) Project Manager
2 202 (15.00%) Analyst
3 161 (11.95%) Architect
4 138 (10.24%) Lead
5 117 (8.69%) Senior
6 93 (6.90%) Consultant
7 70 (5.20%) Security Architect
8 62 (4.60%) Business Analyst
9 56 (4.16%) Developer
10 50 (3.71%) Senior Manager
11 42 (3.12%) Technical Architect
12 39 (2.90%) Security Consultant
13 37 (2.75%) IT Manager
14 36 (2.67%) Lead Architect
15 33 (2.45%) Risk Analyst
15 33 (2.45%) Security Manager
15 33 (2.45%) Technical Leader
16 32 (2.38%) Security Analyst
17 31 (2.30%) Programme Manager
17 31 (2.30%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.41%) Node.js
2 36 (2.67%) ISPF
3 19 (1.41%) XML
4 16 (1.19%) FIX Protocol
5 13 (0.97%) Kafka
5 13 (0.97%) SAML
6 12 (0.89%) .NET
6 12 (0.89%) OAuth
7 11 (0.82%) CSS
7 11 (0.82%) OpenID
8 10 (0.74%) HTML
8 10 (0.74%) SailPoint
8 10 (0.74%) Web Services
9 9 (0.67%) Middleware
10 8 (0.59%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.59%) J2EE
10 8 (0.59%) LDAP
10 8 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (0.59%) Spring
11 6 (0.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 147 (10.91%) Management Information System
2 42 (3.12%) Derivative
2 42 (3.12%) Public Cloud
3 39 (2.90%) Mainframe
3 39 (2.90%) Security Posture
4 35 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
5 31 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 24 (1.78%) Data Centre
7 22 (1.63%) Fixed Income
8 21 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 19 (1.41%) Market Risk
10 18 (1.34%) Operational Technology
11 17 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (1.26%) NHS
12 15 (1.11%) Freedom of Information
12 15 (1.11%) Onboarding
12 15 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.04%) Credit Risk
13 14 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (0.97%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 122 (9.06%) Windows
2 55 (4.08%) Linux
3 47 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 44 (3.27%) Android
4 44 (3.27%) Apple iOS
5 38 (2.82%) Unix
5 38 (2.82%) zOS
6 10 (0.74%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.074%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (25.61%) Project Management
2 273 (20.27%) Agile
3 260 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 253 (18.78%) Cybersecurity
5 196 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (12.32%) Information Security
7 155 (11.51%) Project Delivery
8 139 (10.32%) Change Management
9 125 (9.28%) PRINCE2
10 113 (8.39%) Decision-Making
11 112 (8.31%) DevOps
12 111 (8.24%) Roadmaps
12 111 (8.24%) Security Architecture
13 101 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 89 (6.61%) Project Planning
15 80 (5.94%) ITIL
16 72 (5.35%) Migration
17 71 (5.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 69 (5.12%) Threat Intelligence
19 67 (4.97%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (6.68%) SQL
2 84 (6.24%) Python
3 41 (3.04%) PowerShell
4 38 (2.82%) Java
5 36 (2.67%) JCL
6 33 (2.45%) REXX
7 24 (1.78%) C#
8 20 (1.48%) Assembly Language
9 18 (1.34%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.04%) CLIST
11 13 (0.97%) C++
12 6 (0.45%) Scala
13 4 (0.30%) C
13 4 (0.30%) VBA
14 3 (0.22%) ABAP
14 3 (0.22%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.22%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.22%) Groovy
14 3 (0.22%) Perl
14 3 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 245 (18.19%) Security Cleared
2 208 (15.44%) Degree
3 174 (12.92%) SC Cleared
4 112 (8.31%) CISSP
5 83 (6.16%) CISM
6 68 (5.05%) DV Cleared
7 60 (4.45%) PMI Certification
8 59 (4.38%) PMP
9 50 (3.71%) CISA
10 43 (3.19%) CRISC
11 35 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 33 (2.45%) Master's Degree
13 26 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (1.26%) SANS
16 15 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 14 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
18 13 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Certification
19 8 (0.59%) CEH
19 8 (0.59%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (9.73%) NIST
2 130 (9.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 100 (7.42%) PMO
4 83 (6.16%) QA
5 56 (4.16%) GRC
6 54 (4.01%) GDPR
7 37 (2.75%) COBIT
8 36 (2.67%) PCI DSS
9 32 (2.38%) Data Quality
10 23 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (1.26%) NCSC
12 16 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 16 (1.19%) HIPAA
12 16 (1.19%) NIST 800
13 14 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 12 (0.89%) ISO 31000
14 12 (0.89%) SLA
15 11 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.59%) EMIR
16 8 (0.59%) MiFID
System Software
1 36 (2.67%) Time Sharing Option
2 15 (1.11%) ACF2
2 15 (1.11%) RACF
3 13 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.82%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 11 (0.82%) Microcode
5 8 (0.59%) Docker
6 3 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.074%) Firmware
7 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.074%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (1.78%) OMEGAMON
2 12 (0.89%) Grafana
2 12 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (0.74%) Terraform
4 9 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (0.45%) Ansible
6 5 (0.37%) SCCM
7 4 (0.30%) PingFederate
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.15%) CEMLI
9 2 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.15%) Nagios
9 2 (0.15%) Nessus
9 2 (0.15%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.15%) OpenView
9 2 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.074%) CASB
10 1 (0.074%) Control-M
10 1 (0.074%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 135 (10.02%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.83%) SAP
3 54 (4.01%) IBM
4 50 (3.71%) Oracle
5 29 (2.15%) Splunk
6 24 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.41%) Broadcom
7 19 (1.41%) ION Trading
7 19 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.26%) Bloomberg
9 16 (1.19%) Adobe
9 16 (1.19%) Google
9 16 (1.19%) Tradeweb
10 15 (1.11%) MarketAxess
11 13 (0.97%) Murex
12 10 (0.74%) Cisco
12 10 (0.74%) Qualys
13 9 (0.67%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.59%) CA
15 7 (0.52%) Apple