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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 30 54
Rank change year-on-year -14 +24 +8
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 30 39 21
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.68% 6.09% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 6.41% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 9
10th Percentile - £355 £405
25th Percentile £375 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £509 £558
90th Percentile - £544 £710
Scotland median daily rate £475 £467 £500
% change year-on-year +1.71% -6.60% -7.15%

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 694 608 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.05% 95.00% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 318 415
10th Percentile £350 £224 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £550
90th Percentile £625 £600 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 28
10th Percentile £15.83 £16.93 £13.24
25th Percentile £42.33 £17.30 £15.96
Median hourly rate £51.25 £17.59 £18.77
Median % change year-on-year +191.44% -6.33% -41.49%
75th Percentile £70.50 £32.73 £55.63
90th Percentile £81.24 £62.50 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £18.92 £20.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year -5.43% -7.58% +41.95%

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 18 July 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 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.33%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.00%) AWS
4 3 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Apigee
6 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Run
6 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) Google Ads
6 1 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.33%) DataStage
2 1 (3.33%) Looker
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Zephyr
3 1 (3.33%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) Postman
General
1 13 (43.33%) Finance
2 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Banking
5 4 (13.33%) Retail
6 3 (10.00%) General Ledger
6 3 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Military
8 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.33%) Local Government
8 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.33%) Private Banking
8 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Finance Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Risk Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Security Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Test Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Customer Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Data Migration Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Data Quality Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Data Quality Manager
5 1 (3.33%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.33%) LangChain
2 1 (3.33%) LangGraph
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
2 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.33%) PKI
2 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Agile
2 8 (26.67%) AI
2 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (23.33%) Generative AI
4 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (13.33%) Business Analysis
5 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (13.33%) Data Management
5 4 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (13.33%) Migration
5 4 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Identification
5 4 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (10.00%) Asset Management
6 3 (10.00%) DevOps
6 3 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) Bash
2 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) CISM
2 1 (3.33%) CISSP
2 1 (3.33%) CRISC
2 1 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (3.33%) MCSE
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.33%) GRC
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Istio
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.33%) SCCM
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) ForgeRock
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) SAP