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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 45 46
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +12
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 21 20 34
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.44% 3.29% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 3.51% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 25
10th Percentile £216 £341 £399
25th Percentile £235 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £450 £458
Median % change year-on-year -26.39% -1.75% -3.07%
75th Percentile £438 £488 £558
90th Percentile £541 £538 £675
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -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 545 570 796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.34% 93.90% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 309 481
10th Percentile £194 £193 £228
25th Percentile £406 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £638 £640
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 25
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.30 £13.26
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.56% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £72.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +15.15%

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 11 February 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 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.52%) Lucidchart
4 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) AWS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (4.76%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Information Governance Officer
2 4 (19.05%) Information Officer
3 3 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Business Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Design Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Quantitative Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Release Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (4.76%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (23.81%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (19.05%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (19.05%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 6 (28.57%) Impact Assessments
2 6 (28.57%) Project Management
3 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (23.81%) Incident Management
3 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Data Sharing
4 4 (19.05%) DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Information Governance
4 4 (19.05%) Records Management
5 3 (14.29%) Coaching
5 3 (14.29%) Compliance Audit
5 3 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 3 (14.29%) Due Diligence
5 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Python
1 2 (9.52%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) C#
2 1 (4.76%) C++
2 1 (4.76%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) CEH
2 1 (4.76%) CISSP
2 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (4.76%) PhD
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (28.57%) GDPR
3 2 (9.52%) GRC
4 1 (4.76%) NIST
4 1 (4.76%) PMO
4 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) F5
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Pega