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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 67 96
Rank change year-on-year +2 +29 +29
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 1,311 1,878 2,391
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.08% 3.29% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.66% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 1,074 1,637
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £700 £736 £660
90th Percentile £825 £862 £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 45 234 55
10th Percentile £12.25 - £24.52
25th Percentile £30.12 £9.80 £25.68
Median hourly rate £50.00 £10.63 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +370.37% -67.19% -14.29%
75th Percentile £61.25 £12.02 £58.57
90th Percentile £82.05 £69.57 £66.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £9.80 £44.53
% change year-on-year +435.71% -77.99% +17.80%

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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -1 1,117 £550 -8.33% 985
UK excluding London +5 625 £525 -4.55% 543
London +9 576 £600 -7.69% 465
Work from Home +25 439 £550 -8.33% 407
North of England +20 186 £590 +18.00% 137
South East -2 141 £525 -4.55% 128
North West +26 116 £670 +37.08% 78
South West -18 107 £510 -25.82% 75
Scotland +21 75 £450 -15.85% 47
Yorkshire -4 64 £475 -3.80% 42
Midlands -2 62 £525 +5.00% 89
West Midlands -5 52 £475 -9.52% 48
East of England +7 28 £300 -45.45% 51
Wales +36 15 £600 +17.07% 19
Northern Ireland +17 14 £435 -24.87% 7
East Midlands +4 10 £598 +49.38% 41
North East +18 8 £590 +31.11% 18
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 40 (3.05%) Confluence
2 37 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.98%) SAS
4 15 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.23%) Apache
7 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.23%) nginx
8 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.076%) CMS
9 1 (0.076%) IIS
9 1 (0.076%) Mendix
9 1 (0.076%) Moodle
Applications
1 73 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (3.59%) MS Visio
4 45 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.76%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.076%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.92%) ION MarketView
3 10 (0.76%) Aligne
4 7 (0.53%) Endur
4 7 (0.53%) Temenos T24
5 6 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 5 (0.38%) Shopify
7 4 (0.31%) Primavera
7 4 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.23%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 105 (8.01%) Azure
2 44 (3.36%) AWS
3 31 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (2.29%) SaaS
5 23 (1.75%) Power Platform
6 16 (1.22%) IaaS
7 14 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (0.92%) GCP
8 12 (0.92%) PaaS
9 9 (0.69%) Entra ID
9 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (0.61%) Kong
10 8 (0.61%) WhatsApp
11 7 (0.53%) Apigee
12 6 (0.46%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.46%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.38%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (0.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 85 (6.48%) Firewall
2 56 (4.27%) Network Security
3 54 (4.12%) VPN
4 23 (1.75%) Structured Cabling
5 18 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (1.07%) FIX Connectivity
7 12 (0.92%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.84%) DNS
9 9 (0.69%) DWDM
9 9 (0.69%) Intranet
10 8 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (0.61%) Wireless
11 6 (0.46%) SAN
12 4 (0.31%) DHCP
12 4 (0.31%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.31%) LAN
12 4 (0.31%) PPP
12 4 (0.31%) VLAN
12 4 (0.31%) Wideband
13 3 (0.23%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (1.91%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.53%) Power BI
3 17 (1.30%) Relational Database
4 13 (0.99%) MongoDB
5 10 (0.76%) Metadata
6 8 (0.61%) KDB
7 7 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.53%) OLAP
7 7 (0.53%) OLTP
8 6 (0.46%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.46%) Oracle OLAP
9 5 (0.38%) Data Mart
9 5 (0.38%) MySQL
10 4 (0.31%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.23%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 79 (6.03%) JIRA
2 13 (0.99%) Jenkins
2 13 (0.99%) TeamCity
3 8 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
4 7 (0.53%) Git
5 5 (0.38%) LoadRunner
5 5 (0.38%) NeoLoad
6 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.31%) Sourcetree
7 3 (0.23%) GitLab
7 3 (0.23%) Maven
8 2 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.076%) Ant
9 1 (0.076%) Babel
9 1 (0.076%) MLflow
9 1 (0.076%) Selenium
9 1 (0.076%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.076%) VisualWorks
9 1 (0.076%) webpack
General
1 401 (30.59%) Finance
2 391 (29.82%) Social Skills
3 176 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 110 (8.39%) Banking
6 81 (6.18%) Legal
7 63 (4.81%) Front Office
8 52 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
9 44 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (3.36%) Marketing
10 38 (2.90%) Telecoms
11 29 (2.21%) Investment Banking
12 25 (1.91%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.83%) Retail
14 23 (1.75%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (1.45%) Local Government
17 16 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (1.14%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 220 (16.78%) Project Manager
2 203 (15.48%) Analyst
3 154 (11.75%) Architect
4 135 (10.30%) Lead
5 116 (8.85%) Senior
6 94 (7.17%) Consultant
7 63 (4.81%) Security Architect
8 61 (4.65%) Business Analyst
9 53 (4.04%) Developer
9 53 (4.04%) Senior Manager
10 42 (3.20%) Technical Architect
11 39 (2.97%) Security Consultant
12 36 (2.75%) Lead Architect
13 35 (2.67%) Security Manager
14 34 (2.59%) Risk Analyst
15 33 (2.52%) Technical Leader
16 32 (2.44%) Security Analyst
17 30 (2.29%) IT Manager
17 30 (2.29%) Programme Manager
18 28 (2.14%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.51%) Node.js
2 36 (2.75%) ISPF
3 18 (1.37%) XML
4 16 (1.22%) FIX Protocol
5 15 (1.14%) Kafka
6 13 (0.99%) SAML
7 12 (0.92%) .NET
7 12 (0.92%) OAuth
7 12 (0.92%) Web Services
8 11 (0.84%) CSS
8 11 (0.84%) HTML
8 11 (0.84%) OpenID
9 10 (0.76%) J2EE
9 10 (0.76%) Middleware
9 10 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (0.76%) SailPoint
9 10 (0.76%) Spring
10 8 (0.61%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.61%) LDAP
10 8 (0.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 142 (10.83%) Management Information System
2 42 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
2 42 (3.20%) Derivative
2 42 (3.20%) Public Cloud
3 41 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 39 (2.97%) Mainframe
5 34 (2.59%) Product Ownership
6 24 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 23 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 22 (1.68%) Fixed Income
9 18 (1.37%) Operational Technology
10 17 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.30%) Market Risk
10 17 (1.30%) NHS
11 15 (1.14%) Freedom of Information
11 15 (1.14%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (0.99%) CMDB
13 13 (0.99%) Credit Risk
13 13 (0.99%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 112 (8.54%) Windows
2 52 (3.97%) Linux
3 46 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 44 (3.36%) Android
4 44 (3.36%) Apple iOS
5 38 (2.90%) Unix
5 38 (2.90%) zOS
6 10 (0.76%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.076%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (26.01%) Project Management
2 269 (20.52%) Agile
3 250 (19.07%) Cybersecurity
3 250 (19.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 199 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
5 166 (12.66%) Information Security
6 159 (12.13%) Project Delivery
7 137 (10.45%) Change Management
8 123 (9.38%) PRINCE2
9 116 (8.85%) DevOps
9 116 (8.85%) Roadmaps
10 111 (8.47%) Decision-Making
11 106 (8.09%) Security Architecture
12 101 (7.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 87 (6.64%) Project Planning
14 75 (5.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 75 (5.72%) Threat Intelligence
15 73 (5.57%) ITIL
16 70 (5.34%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
17 66 (5.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 90 (6.86%) SQL
2 83 (6.33%) Python
3 39 (2.97%) Java
4 36 (2.75%) JCL
4 36 (2.75%) PowerShell
5 33 (2.52%) REXX
6 24 (1.83%) C#
7 20 (1.53%) Assembly Language
8 18 (1.37%) JavaScript
9 15 (1.14%) C++
10 14 (1.07%) CLIST
11 6 (0.46%) Scala
12 5 (0.38%) C
13 4 (0.31%) ABAP
13 4 (0.31%) VBA
14 3 (0.23%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.23%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.23%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.23%) Perl
14 3 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 237 (18.08%) Security Cleared
2 197 (15.03%) Degree
3 168 (12.81%) SC Cleared
4 107 (8.16%) CISSP
5 79 (6.03%) CISM
6 66 (5.03%) DV Cleared
7 60 (4.58%) PMI Certification
7 60 (4.58%) PMP
8 44 (3.36%) CISA
9 40 (3.05%) CRISC
10 37 (2.82%) Master's Degree
11 33 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
14 14 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 14 (1.07%) SANS
15 12 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 8 (0.61%) APMP
16 8 (0.61%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (9.99%) NIST
2 128 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 94 (7.17%) PMO
4 81 (6.18%) QA
5 55 (4.20%) GRC
6 52 (3.97%) GDPR
7 35 (2.67%) PCI DSS
8 30 (2.29%) COBIT
8 30 (2.29%) Data Quality
9 23 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (1.30%) HIPAA
11 16 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 16 (1.22%) NCSC
12 15 (1.14%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 12 (0.92%) SLA
15 11 (0.84%) ISO 31000
15 11 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.69%) EMIR
17 8 (0.61%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 36 (2.75%) Time Sharing Option
2 15 (1.14%) ACF2
2 15 (1.14%) RACF
3 12 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.84%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 11 (0.84%) Microcode
5 10 (0.76%) Docker
6 3 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.076%) Firmware
7 1 (0.076%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.076%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.076%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (1.83%) OMEGAMON
2 14 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (0.84%) Grafana
3 11 (0.84%) Terraform
4 8 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
5 7 (0.53%) Ansible
6 4 (0.31%) PingFederate
7 3 (0.23%) Nagios
7 3 (0.23%) OpenView
7 3 (0.23%) SCCM
7 3 (0.23%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 2 (0.15%) CEMLI
8 2 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.15%) Nessus
8 2 (0.15%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.076%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.076%) CASB
9 1 (0.076%) Consul
9 1 (0.076%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.076%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 130 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.03%) SAP
3 58 (4.42%) Oracle
4 55 (4.20%) IBM
5 29 (2.21%) Splunk
6 25 (1.91%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.60%) ION Trading
8 19 (1.45%) Bloomberg
8 19 (1.45%) Broadcom
9 18 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.30%) Google
11 16 (1.22%) Adobe
11 16 (1.22%) Tradeweb
12 15 (1.14%) MarketAxess
13 12 (0.92%) Murex
14 11 (0.84%) Cisco
15 10 (0.76%) CA
15 10 (0.76%) Qualys
16 9 (0.69%) Atlassian
17 8 (0.61%) Dynatrace