Risk Management Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Risk Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Risk Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 48 47
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 22 19 34
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.59% 3.15% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.36% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 25
10th Percentile £216 £363 £399
25th Percentile £236 £380 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £458
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -1.75% -2.03%
75th Percentile £459 £488 £638
90th Percentile £535 £538 £675
Scotland median daily rate £430 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -4.44% - -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 550 565 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.72% 93.70% 90.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 307 491
10th Percentile £204 £200 £228
25th Percentile £406 £391 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £673 £638 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +2.78% -8.16% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 24
10th Percentile £17.42 £20.30 £14.10
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £66.75 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +12.54%

Risk Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Risk Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Risk Management job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Risk Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Risk Management in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Risk Management in Edinburgh

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Risk Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Risk Management

Risk Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (9.09%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) Lucidchart
5 1 (4.55%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
1 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.55%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Subversion
2 1 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 7 (31.82%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Information Governance Officer
2 4 (18.18%) Information Officer
3 3 (13.64%) Business Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Business Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Health and Safety Manager
5 1 (4.55%) PMO Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Qualitative Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (4.55%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Management Information System
2 5 (22.73%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (18.18%) Freedom of Information
4 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Agile
1 7 (31.82%) Data Protection
1 7 (31.82%) Project Management
2 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (27.27%) Impact Assessments
3 5 (22.73%) DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) Incident Management
3 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (18.18%) Data Sharing
4 4 (18.18%) Information Governance
4 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 4 (18.18%) Records Management
5 3 (13.64%) Compliance Audit
5 3 (13.64%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.64%) Due Diligence
5 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.64%) Software Delivery
5 3 (13.64%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) C++
1 2 (9.09%) Java
1 2 (9.09%) Python
1 2 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) C#
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) CEH
2 1 (4.55%) CISSP
2 1 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (4.55%) PhD
2 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.55%) PMP
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (27.27%) GDPR
3 2 (9.09%) GRC
3 2 (9.09%) PMO
4 1 (4.55%) NIST
4 1 (4.55%) P3O
4 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.55%) F5
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Pega