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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 33 50
Rank change year-on-year -17 +17 -1
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 25 35 23
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.38% 5.64% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 5.99% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 11
10th Percentile £355 £413 £363
25th Percentile £375 £419 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £488
90th Percentile - £576 £694
Scotland median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 625 584 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.57% 94.04% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 278 369
10th Percentile £262 £304 £218
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £450
% change year-on-year - +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 21 24
10th Percentile £15.81 - £13.30
25th Percentile £15.91 £17.30 £16.13
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £21.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -18.01% -54.12%
75th Percentile £62.75 £45.80 £24.18
90th Percentile £79.00 £61.25 £45.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £20.80 £20.94
% change year-on-year -18.25% -0.68% +18.16%

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 5 September 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 2 (8.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (12.00%) AWS
5 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) GCP
6 1 (4.00%) Apigee
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Run
6 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.00%) SaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.00%) DataStage
2 1 (4.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (44.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (20.00%) Banking
5 5 (20.00%) Retail
6 3 (12.00%) General Ledger
7 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (8.00%) Retail Banking
8 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
8 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
8 1 (4.00%) Military
8 1 (4.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Risk Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Customer Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Data Migration Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Data Quality Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Data Quality Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Data Scientist
5 1 (4.00%) Qualitative Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Security Assurance Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) LangChain
1 1 (4.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.00%) PKI
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Agile
1 9 (36.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (28.00%) AI
2 7 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (24.00%) Generative AI
4 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (16.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (16.00%) Migration
6 3 (12.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.00%) Data Management
6 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Identification
6 3 (12.00%) Validation
6 3 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.00%) CISM
2 1 (4.00%) CISSP
2 1 (4.00%) CRISC
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (4.00%) MCSE
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) GRC
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Istio
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow